How I sweetened my work
By eating strawberries while coding! Now even working around some nasty Internet Explorer bugs seems enjoyable :-))
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Jakub Pawlowicz
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Jakub Pawlowicz
Parallels rocks
That’s a hot topic recently in the Apple world. Parallels made installing virtualized OSes really easy and fast. Thanks to it I’ve already played with Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows 98 and Windows XP on my MacBook Pro. Now I can install Ubuntu while reading installation manual in Safari, playing songs with iTunes and chatting with iChat at the same time.
Even better I can install two OSes simultaneously. I can test my software under Linux without having second box, share my network connection with it, boot or install it directly from CD image, and do tons of other things. If it won’t be enough, there something really, really cool left out there…Parallels + Windows XP
That’s the main reason Mac community loves Parallels. Tight integration with Windows makes life a lot easier for some people – like for those using Windows-only apps, testing websites in bull-crap IE or playing Solitaire ;-)).
It’s now even cooler as some time ago Parallels team published a beta of the new Parallels Desktop software which offers a Coherence mode which (almost) completely hides Windows and allows running Mac apps and windows apps side-by-side and launching Windows apps directly from the dock!If that wouldn’t be enough recently I’ve discovered a program which allows me to install multiple IEs on one Windows installation. So good bye Windows 98 and multiple XP instances! Now I have Windows XP with IE 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0 installed, all running alongside each other. That rocks!!!
My next wish would be to let Parallels tell me some jokes, but that’s probably too much…
