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...
The Recognize Text tool is one of the new tools in Parallels® Toolbox 5.0, released on July 27, 2021. This tool “extracts” text from a photo or image. Even though Recognize Text has...
I have been using the new Recognize Text tool in Parallels® Toolbox 5.0 for about a month now. For me, it neatly solves a common problem: having to re-type the static text in a screenshot...
