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...
Even on a large screen Mac, the icons in the Mac menu bar can take up more than half of the menu bar (Figure 1). Some of these icons are from Apple, and others are from applications I have installed on this...
Over its decades-long development, Parallels® Desktop has had many performance enhancements. But as the saying goes, “you can never have too much speed.” So, in this blog post I will show you how to...
It has been about 10 months since I wrote about Parallels Access™ here in the Parallels® blog or in the Parallels YouTube channel. During this time, the engineering team has been busy ensuring that Parallels...
The answer is “Probably not…”, but sometimes the answer is “Yes!”
I am frequently asked “will this new game that was released last week run on my Mac using Parallels Desktop?” My...
New tools, a new icon, and lots of improvements
Like many other people, I am a big fan of Parallels® Toolbox, and I use several different tools every day. So, when the Toolbox engineering team offered me the chance to use the new Toolbox...
“TPM” is not something talked about in the Mac community, so it is not surprising if you don’t know about it. However, that all changed this summer.
In this blog post, I will present a short overview...
As the expression goes, “May you live in interesting times.”
This is such an interesting time to be a Parallels® customer: macOS Monterey release imminent, Windows 11 released on...
Age of Empires, Overwatch and many other games play well.
On an M1 Mac, operating systems in Parallels® Desktop virtual machines must be ARM-based operating systems, and this has led to...
