I know you’ve written rather extensively about Parallels as a virtual machine environment for Mac OS X, but I’m wondering what you think of VMware Fusion and whether you know if it works properly with Microsoft Vista?
I know you’ve written rather extensively about Parallels as a virtual machine environment for Mac OS X, but I’m wondering what you think of VMware Fusion and whether you know if it works properly with Microsoft Vista?
I have a Mac mighty mouse [ed note: actually, it’s an “Apple Mighty Mouse”] device and am going crazy without my right-click capability. Is there some solution or something I can hack, or am I stuck having to buy something third-party?
I just got a MacBook Air and have been enjoying having the world’s lightest laptop. It’s an amazing piece of engineering and while it appears to have some critical features missing (like a DVD drive or Ethernet port) the fact is that I never used those features on my older MacBook Pro laptop either so it’s not anything I miss.
Frankly, with my Corsair 8GB flash drive, it’s just a super-modern version of “sneakernet” and was a breeze to jump onto the new device and use it full-time.
Even better, it gave me an opportunity to really pay attention to what I change on a stock Mac laptop to make it work for me. And that’s what this article is about. Let’s call it Dave’s Guide to Critical Mac Software…
I’m running Mac OS X Leopard and the transparent menu bar is slowly but surely driving me batty. Isn’t there some way to make it opaque and white again? Man, it’s darn hard to read much of the time!
Today I tried to use Mail to send an e-mail to someone. Everything looked fine until I got an alert saying CANNOT SEND MESSAGE USING THE SERVER SMTP.MAC.COM. I have the option to choose another server, however, the drop-box does not have my account as one of the options. What the heck?
Not to sound like a complete chowderhead, but when I have a USB disk drive hooked up to my Mac and then unplug it, I always get a scary warning. How do I avoid that and eject the drive properly before unplugging it?
Every time I copy a music CD out of my collection onto my computer, it shows up with “Track 01”, “Track 02”, and so on. What the heck? Surely I don’t need to manually enter all the track names for each of my hundreds of CDs as I rip them?
After reading about the Gizmodo bloggers wandering CES and flicking off TVs left and right, my company is paranoid someone will do a similar stunt to our displays in our Macworld exhibit booth. That’d would be a huge problem. Short of duct tape, is there some way to prevent this problem?