I use the Mac Dock a lot, and I configure it to have the most useful set of icons that I can. Unfortunately, when you add lots of icons to the Dock, the icons become tiny. In this blog post, I will show you how I add many full-sized icons...
Have you ever wanted a giant undo button on your computer? A button that would help you in situations like this:
That update that I installed last week has really messed things up. I wish I could just go back in time and undo...
What is Coherence?
Coherence is one of the four ways to view Parallels Desktop. In the Parallels documentation, these are called “view modes”:
WindowFull ScreenPicture-in-Picture (PiP)Coherence
Figure 1
Window –...
As I‘ve written in earlier blog posts, Age of Empires is my most favorite game of all time. So, you can imagine my dismay when Microsoft announced in 2008 that they were shutting down Ensemble Studios, the development studio for all...
In a recent blog post, my colleague Kayla Myrhow did an excellent job explaining the 32-bit application issue for users who are considering or have already moved to macOS® Catalina. In this post, I’ll show you how to set up...
I spent most of August traveling around Asia and presenting demonstrations of Parallels Desktop® for Mac and the latest features to various audiences, including technical press, bloggers and...
The feature Sidecar was first introduced in macOS Catalina and is also available now in macOS Big Sur.
Sidecar enables you to use an iPad as a secondary screen on your Mac. With Parallels Desktop® for Mac and Sidecar, you can...
A few months ago, I wrote about using the Share menu to add PDFs to Books or other PDF reader applications. Parallels Desktop® 15 for Mac adds another use of the Share menu: sending files on your Mac from your Windows...
The recently released Parallels Desktop® 15 for Mac has a number of excellent features that will benefit its huge user base in a variety of ways. I think, however, the feature that will provide the greatest benefit to the largest number of...
In my role at
Parallels, I spend a considerable amount of time on planes. My experience with
in-flight Wifi is that it’s really slow—and to add insult to injury, it’s also
really expensive. So before I leave for the...
