I have been fortunate to attend many of Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developer Conferences (WWDC), usually as a speaker but sometimes as an attendee, as I am this year. While generally a WWDC focuses on...
When Parallels Toolbox for Mac version 1.0 was first released in 2016, it had 20 tools. We promised that there would be regular updates with new tools added. We have certainly kept that promise! Version 5.5 was released today, and it has two new tools, for...
As a Mac user from the very first days of the Mac in 1984, if an Apple tool is available, I usually try it first for a particular task. I use Disk Utility for formatting or repairing disks and USB sticks, Font Book for managing...
Fear is the mind killer. Bene Gesserit mantra from Dune
I have been anxiously awaiting the game Dune: Spice Wars since it was announced late last year. Dune: Spice Wars is a real-time strategy (RTS) game set...
Alas, most of you have probably seen some of the alerts in Figure 1. For a Parallels® Desktop user, a crash can be caused by a bug in macOS, in Windows, or in Parallels Desktop itself. Despite the valiant and unending...
In recognition of World Backup Day, this post shows you how best to back up the Windows installation on your Mac in Parallels® Desktop.
Yes, you really should back up!
A few years ago, I had a...
While several products of the Corel® portfolio have versions for both Windows and Mac (CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, CorelCAD™, Painter®, MindManager®, WinZip®, and some Parallels® products), the recently...
After much anticipation, since it was first shown at WWDC20 nine months ago, Apple released the Universal Control feature in macOS Monterey 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4.
Video 1 shows you what Universal...
In what now seems like a lifetime ago, I was a programmer who used (and was a major advocate of) the Prograph programming language. As you can see in Figure 1, Prograph was a visual programming language. The boxes and lines you see in Figure 1 are not an...
As I have detailed in a previous post, many newly released games don’t work well in Parallels® Desktop. (There are several reasons for this that are all explained in that earlier post.) So, it is a real...
