As a Mac user from the very first days of the Mac in 1984, if an Apple tool is available, I usually try it first for a particular task. I use Disk Utility for formatting or repairing disks and USB sticks, Font Book for managing...
After much anticipation, since it was first shown at WWDC20 nine months ago, Apple released the Universal Control feature in macOS Monterey 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4.
Video 1 shows you what Universal...
Guest blog post by Dmitry Geynisman, Product Manager at Parallels
You might have heard the BIG news from Google about the early access release of Chrome OS Flex – a “standalone” version of Google’s OS that can be...
Guest blog post by Dmitry Geynisman, Product Manager at Parallels
A Guide for playing Windows games on a Mac
I’ve been playing computer games since I was six years old. My cousin...
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...
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 many...
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...