The first day of Apple’s 2021 Worldwide Developers’ Conference is winding down, and the two main presentations of the day – the Keynote and the Platforms State of the Union – are finished. Once again,...
My favourite game franchise of all-time, Age of Empires, is not available on the Mac, so I use Parallels® Desktop for Mac to run it in Windows 10 on the iMac in my home. Here is a one-minute video showing several game snippets of two of the Age of...
This post is part of a series to assist new users with OS virtualization on Parallels Desktop.
I admit it: running two or more operating systems at the same time seems kind of strange at...
“Same great tools, in a new, easier-to-use interface.”
A lot has happened since Parallels® Toolbox was first released in 2016:
The Mac went through six major releases: El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra,...
I have an obsessive-compulsive trait that compels me to use exactly the right character when I write. Why type “Gerard” when the correct spelling is “Gérard”? Why write “39 degrees” or “aleph null” when the proper way is...
For years, people have speculated about the ability to run iOS apps on the Mac. This speculation was caused by the increasing similarity in the user experiences across the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad, and by...
Of all the hardware resources that the macOS manages, computer memory (RAM) is probably the most volatile. Whenever you launch or quit an app, open or close a document, or insert or eject a USB thumb drive, memory is allocated or...
Third-party app developers are really stepping up to revise their apps for the new Mac computers with the Apple M1 chip. Every day I receive update notices or see news stories about these...
“You can never have too much RAM, too much storage, or too many pixels.”
In my work at Parallels, I create lots of content: videos, blog posts, screenshots, and even a little code. Like everyone else, I also work almost exclusively at home, so I decided to spend...
Whoever dies with the most fonts wins. (Saying on an Image Club T-shirt I often wear.)
Among my many character flaws, I am a font addict. I really like using the right font to give precisely the perfect flavor to my...