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 | It's a cold winter's day here in New England. While I watch the snow fall, I'm using the time to benchmark Parallels 6 Desktop for Mac, to determine the best settings to use to get the most performance out of a guest OS. The benchmark of Parallels turned up some interesting results, including what happens when you make more memory available. It may not be what you think. In the news this week, Gawker Media web sites were hacked, and some of their account databases were spirited away by the intruders. If you're still using wimpy passwords, or you use the same password in multiple places, you may want to rethink your password strategy. | |
Optimize Parallels Desktop
In this guide, we're going to benchmark how well Windows 7 performs as a guest OS using Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac. We chose Windows 7 for a few reasons. It's the most current Windows OS available; it's available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, which makes it usable on just about all Intel Macs; and, perhaps most importantly, we just installed Windows 7 (64-bit) in Parallels to perform benchmark comparisons between Parallels, VMWare's Fusion, and Oracle's Virtual Box. With Windows 7 installed, along with our two favorite cross-platform benchmarking tools (Geekbench and CINEBENCH), we're ready to find out which settings have the most effect on guest OS performance... Read more
| Finder Column View: Zoom Into a Finder Preview Image
When you have the Finder view set to column display, the last column in a Finder window displays a preview of a selected file. When that file is an image file, you will see a thumbnail of the image. It's nice to be able to quickly see what an image looks like, but if you want to see any details in the image, you'll have to open the file in an image editing application. Or will you? One nifty Finder feature that is often overlooked is the ability to zoom in, zoom out, and pan around an image when in column view... Read more
| Browser Shootout 2010: Which Mac Browser Is the Best?
I'm often asked which is the best Mac browser to use. My answer is always the same: It's the one that you like the best. Many individuals want a more quantifiable answer, though, so to see if we can put some measurements behind browser performance, we decided to perform a Mac browser benchmark test... Read more
| How to Share Windows 7 Files With OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Sharing files between a PC running Windows 7 and a Mac running OS X 10.6 is one of the easiest cross-platform file sharing activities, primarily because Windows 7 and Snow Leopard both speak SMB (Server Message Block), the native file sharing protocol Microsoft uses in Windows 7. Even better, unlike when sharing Vista files, where you have to make a few adjustments to how Vista connects with SMB services, sharing Windows 7 files is pretty much a mouse-click operation... Read more
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