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  • kevin_4e
    The Parallels developers sure seem to be keeping busy, despite the holiday season. Parallels just released their latest beta a week ago, and now they've got more for us to test out.
     
    It is important to keep in mind that "this beta does not introduce any new functionality, but provides several very important fixes to the problems found in previous betas." Based on what was accordingly fixed, they seem to be referring to last week's release.
     
    Some of the fixes would include:
    "Round" corners found in Windows apps are now handled while in Coherence mode. Fullscreen and Coherence mode on secondary monitor fixed. Several apps such as MS Access or MS PowerPoint should now handle graphs correctly. Guest Linux screen resolutions in 24 bit mode fixed. Ability to switch off Command+ZXCV mapping or swap Control and Command keys. Better USB 2.0 support. (Web cams are still in the works) More information can be found at Parallels forum post and a download is located at Parallels download page. 
    Be sure to let us know what you think of this latest build!
  • Swad
    We've heard from a lot of you that Mac-related gifts were at the top of your wish list this Christmas.
     
    Did you get everything you want? Here's your chance to gloat about all your gifts. Don't gloat too much, though - the fat man just started his list for next year, and you know he'll be checking it twice.
     
    (I got a Craftsman tool set, but that's what I asked for. Talk about old school tech...)
  • Swad

    Hi. I'm Jason.

    By Swad, in OSx86,

    Like I mentioned last week, I thought it’d be a good time to formally introduce myself to our community. You’ve known me as “Mashugly” and “Mash” for well over a year now, and now that a lot of you are my good friends, I wanted to let you know a little more about me.
     
    My name is Jason Swadley and I’ll be graduating from Drury University in May with dual degrees in Political Science and Speech Communication. Feel free to call me by my full name, but all my friends call me “Swad.” I live in Springfield, Missouri, a fairly large city in the middle of the U.S. and in one of the most beautiful parts of the country (the Ozarks). Like I mentioned in our introduction thread, I have a wide variety of interests – I love music, the outdoors, baseball, technology, philosophy, etc.
     
    The name “Mashugly” came from our high school production of the play M*A*S*H. My character’s nickname was “Ugly” – hence Mashugly. The character’s real name in the play was John Black, which was the pseudonym I’ve been using for the site until now.
     
    So, that’s me – I’m not really anyone terribly special, just someone who realized that it’d be great to have a place to talk about Intel and x86 based Macs. I hope this site has brought you as much fun as it has me.
     
    Here’s to many more years for the work Mashugly started.
     
    - Swad
  • sHARD>>

    Site Slowdown

    By sHARD>>, in OSx86,

    Pages are occasionally loading extremely slow today due to some maintenance by our bandwidth provider. Please bear with us as they sort through this issue.
  • kevin_4e
    Have you ever felt like your desktop has just begun to get too cluttered? Then "Camouflage" it! Camouflage is a free and unique utility leaving you with nothing but you and your desktop... If you're ever under heavy CPU usage, give Freeze Frame a go. Freeze Frame is able to take any running application and "freeze" it, causing it to consume no more of your CPU until you say so... Curious what all the other CS3 icons are going to look like? Then head on over to John Nack's blog all about Adobe and its icons... If you're unaware of all the nifty hidden tricks on Mac OS X, take a look at how you can have "more fun with the Shift key". Make sure and look at the comments for other fun tricks... If you're having a hard time finding Apple's iSight on their online store, then join the rest of us. Maybe iSight's absence is a sign of built in iSight in future Cinema Displays? Take a look at Digg's comments for more information. (Update)
     
    With the latest Parallels build just released, along with the leak of Leopard 9A321, have you had any luck combining the two? Let us know along with any advice... Thanks to jonz14 for creating another great looking wallpaper. This time it's got a holiday spirit to it. Thanks... And finally, check out what
    has to say about Apple along with the iPhone. 
    Happy Holidays
  • suleiman
    The CrossOver team has just released an update to its popular WINE-on-the-mac implementation. Along with a host of important fixes and updates, including better Half-Life 2 support, the new package boasts an experience in IE that should be entirely refreshing. With the Parallels team progressing at most alarming rate, the pressure has been intensifying for who will come out the champion in the world of Windows emulation. How befitting that the newest line of mac enthusiasts should decide who to crown the champion. Here I was thinking we bought our macs to run OS X on them
     
    What's new in this version:
    Modified handling of Mac Suitcase fonts so that they are available to more Windows applications. In particular, fonts should now work properly in Visio 2003. Altered menu generation so that Managed bottles produce usable menus. Extensively revised the documentation and online help. Cut/Copy/Paste keyboard shortcuts (Command-X,C,V) work better. Added several general printing fixes. Fixed several Half-Life 2 crashes. Improved support for non-American keyboards. Improved support for non-English versions of some applications. Adjusted the GUI in numerous small ways. After this version, it will no longer be necessary to quit the CrossOver CD Helper in order to overwrite CrossOver. Macs with integrated Intel graphics chips (MacBook, Mini) can run DirectX 8.x graphics. Fixed crashes and install failures due to libraries in /usr/local. Fixed crashes due to certain font files. Tool palette windows are now movable. Improved scroll-wheel responsiveness. Fixed Create Icon to preserve working directory and command arguments more reliably. Fixed handling of Caps Lock. Fixed the IE screen-flicker that appeared for pages with Flash content Many other improvements to IE behavior Improved handling of CD detection and ejection. Installers that require multiple CDs should now install more graciously. Some fixes to Outlook 2003 behavior, including printing fixes. Improved support for Equation Editor Corrected display of fonts in DirectX 8.x games, like Half-Life 2. Changes resolution in full-screen games should work better. Numerous other Direct3D improvements. Download available here.
  • kevin_4e
    With VMware "Fusion" just going live, you'll now have a bit of comparing to do with the latest release of Parallels. The latest release of Parallels now contains many new enhancements including:

    “Plug and play” USB 2.0 Support Full-feature virtual CD/DVD drive An even better Coherence mode Better Boot Camp support including full support for FAT32 and NTFS partitions And Parallels Transporter Beta2 bundled right into it (more info) A download can be found at Parallel's Desktop Beta2 page. 
    Please let us know what you think and how it compares with VMware's "Fusion."
  • Swad

    VMware "Fusion" Beta goes live

    By Swad, in OSx86,

    Our very own Macgirl informs us that "Fusion," the VMware virtualization solution for Macs, is now being released in beta. VMware describes Fusion thusly:


    The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X. It is built on VMware's rock-solid and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today.
     
    With Fusion, you can run traditional PC applications on your Mac: if you need to run PC applications, you can now do so by leveraging the power of virtual machine technology. Hmmm... sounds familiar...
     
    You can download the beta from the Fusion Beta Program website. Release notes are here.
     
    Let us know your impressions of this new product, especially in comparison to Parallels. What do you think?
  • Colonel
    Today, Apple seeded a preview of Mac OS X 10.4.9 (build 8P2111) to developers. The following description accompanied the update:


    A number of fixes have been documented. Among those, include bugs wtih Sync Service Engine, rsync and extended attributes, .Mac Sync, Rosetta, USB Modem and caller ID, Bluetooth device pairing, USB modem busy tone detection, QC Engine, Core Graphics and HID Manager, PDFKit and MallocGuardEdges, and Automator Actions. Apple encourages developers to focus in specific areas such as Adobe Flash, bash, bind, Bonjour, Dashboard Widgets, FireWire, Fonts, gnutar, Graphics, and iChat Video Conferencing.
     
    The delta update is approximately 160 MB, currently only available for Intel only, and is available to Select and premier ADC members only.
     
    Thanks Adrian Fogge for letting us know in this thread.
  • sHARD>>

    OSx86 Boots on an Ultra Mobile PC

    By sHARD>>, in OSx86,

    The Register is reporting on OnlyUMPC.com members' efforts to boot hacked OSx86 on their Ultra Mobile PCs, and it appears they were quite successful. A few interesting pictures, as well as a video of the slow boot times (small size means slower processors after all) have been posted. Now if only these things weren't so expensive, we'd finally have a new Apple PDA. Screenshots and video.
     
    Thanks to Alessandro17 and guiyoforward for the heads up in Reader News.
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