Parallels Desktop 4.0 came out today, and although 3.0 was working fine for me, I decided to upgrade right away after reading some initial reactions. At $40, it didn't strike me as a horrible expense. The first thing that sold me was that it finally supported multiple CPU's. My Mac Pro has four, so naturally...

I know a lot of .NET devs are converts to Mac hardware, but if you haven't made the leap yet, Amazon has a $100 rebate on them now , and there's no sales tax. That's at least $200 saved versus buying in the Apple Store. My trusty 2006 model is 2.5 years old, and I'm enormously tempted to snag one. I...

Yikes, check out the comments following Jesse Ezell's post about tinkering with the iPhone SDK . That's a little tough to read. I'm happy to admit I'm an Apple fan, with a Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, two iPods, an iPhone and an AppleTV. They've got me. Heck, my two-year-old MBP is randomly shutting off and...

That $100 store credit from Apple for my iPhone has been burning a hole in my pocket now for awhile, so I strolled into church, er, the Apple Store to play with Keynote, the presentation tool and approximate competitor to PowerPoint. I've done a few PowerPoint presentations here and there. It's not hard...

I noticed the PC World editorial proclaiming that Apple was the new Microsoft (via this blog ), and I swear the mainstream press will print anything these days. I've gone on record time and time again about how much I care about, and love using, Microsoft's development products. I can indirectly credit...

Leave it to the cats at Facebook to deliver a very nice iPhone experience . Given the site's media-centric approach of photos and other nonsense, it's a great fit to the iPhone, which is all about photos and other nonsense! You login and get the feed just as you would normally. I see that Skydiving Jeff...

I've had my "Jesus phone" as some have called it for about two weeks, and so far I'm pretty impressed. I just put it in the charger after more than two days, with about two days stand by, eight hours of "use" (not sure, but I think that's iPod use, Internet, everything but phone calls), an hour and a...

For those of you expecting a level of comfort that the Windows version of Safari works just like the Mac version, think again. We just encountered a pretty serious problem that happens only in the Mac version surrounding the ASP.NET AJAX framework. I haven't been able to nail it down yet, but stuff coming...

Apple fan or not, people seem to be annoyed that Apple is not opening up the iPhone for application support on the device itself. It's not just the Windows developers who are annoyed, it's the faithful Apple developers too. But why? This is the point we've been trying to get to for years! When I worked...

In today's Kool-Aid drinking exercise, I have to say that I really like the Apple TV. I bought it yesterday at my local Apple Store. Scoble likes it too. What's fun about his post is the comments that follow. There is one post in particular that summarizes exactly the way I feel about it. If...