Garbage In Garbage Out

Parallels release yesterday of a new beta (build 3094) further blurs the distinction between rival operating systems. With the new release, Windows applications appear independently in the Mac OS X dock, and even in the application switcher. Better still, Windows XP apps can be dragged to a permanent spot on the dock, and when clicked, [...]

Reader Mista Carruth threw in some good trash after I took out the garbage on Parallels’ fantastic new beta of their Macintosh VM. Apple continues to deny that they’ll introduce a virtualization scheme at the OS level. Of course, that means nothing. No doubt Apple has a master plan, and perhaps this is it.

A XSS worm is spreading like wildfire through MySpace, infecting user accounts and modifying the profile and pages by replacing links. Like most cyber attacks, the MySpace worm relies upon a combination of approaches. This one is based in Javascript, CSS, HTML and uses Apple’s QuickTime component as a supporting vehicle.

Want the freedom to place USB devices anywhere in a room? Imagine putting your scanner on a shelf behind you, your printer in a cabinet, and your camera, well, anywhere. Sick of cabling up your laptop to multiple devices? Now you can plug in a single USB “key” and connect wirelessly, at an amazing 480Mbps, [...]

Apple offers a suite of subscription services, collectively called .Mac (dot-mac), which offers subscribers an excellent list of features not found anywhere else [edit: Yes, most if not all features can be cobbled together on your own, but we're talking about a cohesive suite here]. Alas, these great features come at a hefty price ($99/year [...]

Today Parallels released a new beta version of their Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine environment. The folks over at Parallels haven’t been resting on their laurels, as evidenced by a) the multiple upgrades (both bug fixes and feature enhancements) since first releasing Parallels; b) the radical feature set of their latest beta (build 3036); [...]

Are you a Mac transplant? Perhaps you’re new to the Mac after spending time in the Windows world? Whatever the case may be, you may find the keyboard characteristics on the Mac confusing, or you may just prefer how certain keys function in Windows. For example, do you like how pressing the Home and End [...]

One of the big selling points of Microsoft’s rebranded Toshiba Gigabeat, called “Zune” by the Microsoft marketing wunderkinds, is its ability to create “community” by allowing Zune users to share their music wirelessly between each other.

Here’s a quick way to resize a large number of photos using a built-in feature of Mac OS X, that also generates a web page while it’s at it for an easy photo album.

Here is a technique whereby a QuickTime movie, stored on and delivered by my web server uses your Mac’s iSight camera and microphone to create a movie with a reflective interface containing the local video stream and a logo that is resized by the user’s voice (all in real time). This demonstration makes use of Apple’s Quartz technology.