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Parallels adds "Express Windows Installation"
I just ran across this over on parallels site: http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2006/11/installing-windows-on-mac-is-now.html This sounds like a great feature for their virtualization product. Parallels for OSX is a top notch virtualization...
Posted: Nov 02 2006, 03:27 PM by findleyd
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Convert Thunderbird Email to Windows Mail
I've been converting my thunderbird email boxes to Windows Mail on Vista. To do this you need to use a tool that convert the mbox format to .eml format. I found this free one that seems to work pretty well: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook...
Posted: Sep 05 2006, 10:15 PM by findleyd | with 3 comment(s)
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Made the switch to Vista
Well I took the plunge this weekend and installed the August CTP (build 5536) on my MacBook Pro. I know, I couldnt wait for RC1 to be posted to MSDN. So far everything has been running smoothly. Due to the nature of working on LearnVisualStudio.NET I...
Posted: Sep 05 2006, 01:45 PM by findleyd | with 1 comment(s)
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Great set of Mac Spoof Comercials.
Even though I'm primarily a PC guy I've thought that the recent set of Mac comercials were pretty clever. They're cutsie enough to warrent a good spoofing though and thats exactly what the guys over ant truenuff did: http://tv.truenuff.com/mac/ You know...
Posted: Jul 30 2006, 10:39 AM by findleyd
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Microsoft Product Name Generator
Lance and I were musing over some of the recent product renamings and it gave me the idea to throw together a product name generator. Here's my first stab at it: var pfx = new Array("", "Visual ", "Compact ", "Embedded ", "Expression "); var prd = new...
Set hardware clock to UTC on Windows (or how to make the clock work on a Mac Book Pro)
I recently bought a Mac Book Pro since I can now dual boot OS X and Windows XP. The only real issue that I've had is that OS X, like most Unices likes to set the hardware clock to UTC time. This causes the clock in Windows XP to be off by 5 hours (I'm...
Posted: Jun 20 2006, 05:34 PM by findleyd | with 3 comment(s)
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