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...
Freelance workers, home-office users and commissioned consultants all need access to the corporate network in order to get their work done. It is the IT department’s job to provide...
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...
Virtualization plays a major role in computing in general and is gaining relevance in desktop computing. When in use as test environments or virtualized desktop systems, virtual machines (VMs) may seem to have quite low security requirements...
Virtualization plays a major role in many businesses, though this may not always be immediately apparent to Mac users. Increasingly, the applications they work with will not be running on tangible hardware but rather on...
What is Coherence?
Coherence is one of the four ways to view Parallels Desktop. In the Parallels documentation, these are called “view modes”:
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Figure 1
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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...
The influx of Mac® computers in businesses has made the ability to run Windows applications on Mac an absolute necessity. Since that need has long been addressed by Parallels Desktop® for Mac Business Edition, a...
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...
