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  • Colonel
    Parallels has released a new beta, build 3036, that sports a heap of long awaited features that have been highly requested. Some of these features include booting from, reading, and writing to Boot Camp partitions as well something called Coherency. Coherency is an awesome new feature that allows you to run your Windows applications from Parallels, right on top of Mac OS X. Tim Sugent from the Parallels Forum provides us with more details on the update:
    New Look and Feel and Improved Usability. Completely redesigned windows and dialogues to make them even easier and smooth. Too many changes to describe – just check them out yourselves Virtual Machines Catalogue. A very useful feature for those having more than one VM – now all of them are available through centralized VM catalogue which appears on each Parallels Desktop for Mac instance start in case you have more than one VM One-click Virtual Machine Aliases: Automatically created by OS installation assistant or by drag-and-drop from title bar pressing Command-Option keys combination Clicking on Alias automatically starts the Virtual Machine Shutting down the VM automatically closes Parallels Desktop for Mac application Resizeable Main Window. Resize Parallels Desktop for Mac main window as you do with any other Mac application Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution. Your Windows auto-adjusts the screen resolution to the actual Main Window size. Drag and Drop files and folders between Windows and Mac. A long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Read/Write BootCamp partition. Since this build, an Apple Boot Camp partition with Windows XP installed could be used as a virtual HDD for Parallels Desktop for Mac. Boot from BootCamp partition. Another long awaited feature that lets you boot your 32-bit Windows XP residing on Boot Camp partition directly in Parallels Desktop for Mac. IMPORTANT! You need to boot in your Windows XP natively through Boot Camp and install Parallels Tools for Boot Camp package in it before your first boot in Parallels Desktop for Mac.
    NOTE! It is not possible to suspend Virtual Machine connected to Boot Camp for integrity reasons.
    Parallels Transporter Beta bundled. Migrate your Windows PC, VMware or Virtual PC VMs to Parallels virtual machines. Coherency. Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time. No more switching between Windows to Mac OS. Improved graphic performance. Up to 50% on different applications. Connect/disconnect USB devices schema improved. No more "wait 5-10 seconds" message on USB device connecting to Parallels Desktop for Mac. Up to 5 Virtual NICs. Now Virtual Machine can have up to five virtual network interfaces. Enhanced Shared Networking Mode. Run Cisco VPN and many other complicated networking applications in conjunction with Connection Sharing Mode. Switch between networking modes on-the-fly. Switch networking modes while the virtual machine is running. Transparent mapping of Command-AZXCV key combinations. Now you can also use Mac copy/paste key combinations in Windows. Power On/Power Off/Suspend/Resume/Pause animation. Just try and see. We're very interested in your feedback about the feature. Shared folders configuration on-the-fly. Add/remove/configure shared folders on-the-fly via menu or Status Bar icon without the need to stop your Virtual Machine. Drag and Drop CD/FDD images and folders to the Parallels Desktop status bar. Just drag and drop CD or floppy image you want to connect or Mac folder you want to share onto a respective statusbar icon. And dozens of other not that evident enhancements. The new beta is available from this direct download from parallels. 
    Parallels has made what was once thought impossible, possible.
  • REVENGE
    Microsoft's volume license customers thought they were (finally) able to get their hands on the final version of Windows Vista... until they encountered some very unexpected problems when attempting to install and run Vista.
     
    As it turns out, there are issues with the file they were given, up through those handed out by November 22. The solution? As stated by Microsoft: "Reinstall Required: If you downloaded Windows Vista Business 32 Bit in English before November 22, 2006, please download and reinstall the updated version. We apologize for any inconvenience.."
     
    Expect more apologies to come before Vista arrives for us "normal" customers...
  • Colonel
    Today, Apple released a new security update with the following description:


    Security Update 2006-007 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components: AirPort, ATS, CFNetwork, Finder, Font Book, Font Importer, Installer, OpenSSL, PHP, PPP, Samba, Security Framework, VPN, WebKit, gnuzip, perl
    The update is for Mac OS X 10.4.8 and 10.3.9 and is available via Software Update and Apple's security update info page.
  • kevin_4e
    Looking to free up a little RAM? With DashQuit 2.0, you’re able to tell the current amount of ram used by your widgets, as well as "quit" the dashboard... On the other hand, if you're looking for one more way to save or store some of your files, upload them to your GMail account (get one here) using gDisk... As a citizen of Australia, you might think twice of where you take your iPod. With a newly proposed law, anyone in Australia owning an iPod, camera phone or a DVD recorder with questionable proof of ownership, may face up to a $65,000 fine or five years in jail, possibly both... In exchange for an etching on the back of her future laptop, one creative person found a way to get a free MacBook Pro. With nearly 40 different companies etched on the back of her laptop, she now has one of the most unique laptops at no charge... For any of you iPod owners, did it ever cross your mind that your purchase would save your life? In this guy's case it did...
     
    This week's featured blog is definitely one that will keep you busy. With six entries in two days, you can find an assortment of artwork and reviews all at Pyrat's Blog... If you haven't seen the recently added sticky, "The State of the Art," it's one way to stay up-to-date with all the OSx86 related news (thanks Rammjet)... I swear I've seen something like this commercial before – I just can’t place it. So that's what “PC” looks like in Japan…
  • kevin_4e
    If you’re looking for one more beta to test out, then give Skype 2.5B a spin. Now featuring SMS, it’s worth a try... If you’ve ever wanted to know a little more about your Mac, or anyone else’s, then check out Mactracker, which gives you detailed information about Apple hardware than you'd need... For all of you folks wrapped up in the Class Action Suit regarding defective Apple Studio Displays, you’ve finally gotten what you’ve asked for. Apple has agreed to refund affected customers (only in US) anywhere from US$75 - $400 depending on what repairs were made... Over at the Washington Post, The Woz himself can be heard live, November 21, discussing his book, iWoz. You can also submit questions that may be featured... By mid-2007 iPod integration will be even more ubiquitous, now being featured in airplanes. So far they’ve teamed up with airlines such as Continental, United, and four others...
     
    If you haven’t managed to take a look at sandwer’s Cube Upgrade, then head over to his blog, SWITCH! He was able to place a Mac Mini into a cube enclosure and it turned out great... With almost every beautiful product that Apple makes, there's usually a discussion about whether function has been sacrificed on the altar of looks. Is that so? Let us know in the latest of the Great Debates - Form vs. Function... And finally, with the holiday season coming around,
    to switch to a Mac?
  • sHARD>>
    You know, normally when these topics pop up, I come up with some witty angle to discuss. Some interesting little point that adds a bit of spice to what essentially is a bland announcement of cracking attempts. But there have just been too many... I'm out of wit.
     
    So I quit. For just this one news post, I'm going to give the straight facts:
     
    Some Russian hackers claim to have cracked the Leopard kernel, which is currently being discussed in this thread. They've posted a few screenshots, though nothing is confirmed.
     
    What happened to the unhackable Leopard, Apple? Most pundits figured that this is the time Apple would setup security, after seeing exactly how crackers played with Tiger for Intel. Either they failed to do so, or we haven't seen these new security measures yet.
     
    New details as we have them...
  • REVENGE
    Suprisingly, ATI has released a fully functional open source application called HLSL2GLSL [High Level Shader Language to GL Shader Language], which can be used by programmers to convert DirectX 9 API based graphics code into OpenGL API compatibile graphics code. ATI is not the first to develop such a conversion tool, but it is the first tool of its kind that is both fully featured and open source [other tools have either been commercial or project-specific thus far].
     
    This development will perhaps fill a critical gap needed to bridge the PC and Mac gaming worlds. Linux penguins should keep their hopes up as well, as porting this application for use with Linux should be quite feasible.
     
    Developers, you can download HLSL2GLSL binaries for Win32 and OS X directly from the project's SourceForge.net project page.
  • Colonel
    Apple may have an AMD-based notebook computer in the works. Taiwan component makers have stated that there is an increase in orders for certan capacitators that are intended to be used in an AMD-based Apple notebook. Digitimes has the the details.


    Taiwan passive component makers are witnessing an aggressive increase in orders for high-capacitance multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), with most of the MLCCs having a capacitance of 22?F, and being for use in an AMD-based Apple notebook, sources at the makers noted. For this new notebook, about 70 22?F MLCCs will be required, with Japan-based Murata Manufacturing, Taiyo Yuden and TDK being the three major suppliers, the sources added.
     
    Speculation that AMD and Apple will team up has been fueled by statements made by AMD CEO Hector Ruiz in September, when he noted that the two companies will eventually do business with each other. The merger between AMD and ATI also helped make the speculation more convincing, as ATI delivers graphics solutions that are specialized for Apple G5 PCs.
    If Apple does start to use AMD processors, this may have a drastic effect on Apple's partnership with Intel.
  • REVENGE
    You were definitely NOT expecting this...well then again, you probably were.
     
    In a rather embarassing turn of events, it has now been confirmed that Microsoft's new "Cutting Edge" MP3 player, Zune, is not compatible with their new "Cutting Edge" operating system, Windows Vista. Users who attempt to install the Zune software suite will receive a nice "This operating system is currently not supported by Zune" message. An official Microsoft support document confirms that Vista "is not supported at this time." What utterly perfect timing considering that Microsoft will be shipping the extra-costly Business edition of Vista in 2 weeks. Looks like the cutting edge just doesn't cut it when it comes to compatability, eh?
     
    On another note, journalists over at the Sydney Morning Herald point out how Zune has quite an "intense" error screen, featuring the picture of a man and two women, one of whom they've described as: "well she's either in hysterics or having an orgasm."
     
    Hey, even their BSODs are becoming more sexy. Now what do you say to THAT Apple?!
     
    UPDATE: Whoa wait a minute, are those two chicks or THREE chicks ? Tell us what you think!
     
    UPDATE 2: It turns out Microsoft's Zune lab has already churned out an update for Zune for Vista; it just hasn't been released yet as it wouldn't make sense to release it before Vista hits shelves anyways. Expect its release within a few days after Business edition arrives on the market officially.
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