Netbooks, iPhones of the world : Ever heard of the FREE Citrix Receiver? - Well now is the time to tune in!
By Tarry Singh at 5 May, 2009, 2:03 pm
LAS VEGAS — May 5, 2009 — Today at Citrix Synergy™ 2009, the conference where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), announced the general availability of Citrix® Receiver™ – a new lightweight software client that makes accessing virtual desktops and applications on any device as easy as turning on your [...]
Read More >>VMware Fusion update 2.0.3 is here!
By Tarry Singh at 3 April, 2009, 6:06 am
Printing Works Again!
VMware Fusion’s driverless printer sharing feature allows you to share your Mac printers very easily with your Windows virtual machines, with no driver installation or configuration needed. However, the feature stopped working on Mac OS X 10.5.6 after Apple Security Update 2009-001. We raced to get this fixed, and I am happy to [...]
Microsoft vs Apple: Ad backfires; Macs get more visibility in return!
By Tarry Singh at 28 March, 2009, 12:09 pm
I for one have dumped all my older boxes (all good ones) for my single macbook. Wanna do the math here?
My previous oversubscription tale:
HP NW Series = €4100 (4Gb RAM, 80Gb) - Nice box but just way too bulky to carry!
Acer Box = €400 (2Gb, 160Gb)
Older Laptop = [...]
VMware releases Fusion 2.0.2; Support for Mac OS X 10.5.6
By Tarry Singh at 13 February, 2009, 11:30 am
VMware has released Fusion 2.0.2, adding support for Mac OS X 10.5.6 as a hosting system or OS X Server 10.5.6 as a guest operating system. Users can now import Windows virtual machines from Parallels Desktop 4.0 and Parallels Server for Mac, or mount unencrypted .dmg and .iso file formats as CD or DVD disc [...]
Read More >>Soonr makes iPhone a powerful Cloud Computing device
By Tarry Singh at 6 January, 2009, 12:04 am
Soonr’s iPhone app is now available from the App Store.
According to Soonr, the application backs up files—Soonr supports 30 file types—in a “personal cloud” that you can access from your phone. The developer says that Soonr automatically maintains the latest versions of these documents, saving you the hassle of having to upload files every time [...]
MacWorld 2009: iWork Cloud Apps are coming!
By Tarry Singh at 2 January, 2009, 8:45 am
(Coustesy: MacBlogz)
Apple is apparently annoucning the release of iWork Cloud Applications.
We just got a truckload of Macworld information dumped on us from our best source. As we piece it together we’ll trickle it out. The first big piece of information is that iWork is going into the Cloud. Not just storage, either. We are [...]
Parallels 4.0: For the new MAC, experimental 8-way SMP as well!
By Tarry Singh at 11 November, 2008, 1:35 am
The release of the 4.0 version of Parallels’ Desktop for Mac on Nov. 11 comes a few months after VMware released the latest version of its Fusion software, which allows Windows and Linux operating systems to run along side the Mac OS X. The Parallels Desktop for Mac software, which is now available, retails for [...]
Read More >>Windows 7 runs inside VMware fusion!
By Tarry Singh at 1 November, 2008, 4:23 am
Peter reporting from the Fusion team:
Dom Barnes twittered us at the VMware Fusion twitter address @vmwarefusion this morning, noting that he’s running a developer preview of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, in a virtual machine on his MacBook Pro with VMware Fusion.
We were intrigued, of course, and my immediate response was, “Cool! Is [...]
Sun adds 64 bit guest, OS X GUI for Virtualization folks for free!
By Tarry Singh at 6 September, 2008, 10:19 am
Sun is pretty serious about this business. Would Sun be shipping a ESX-like (ep, we all know that xVM is not really taking off) version soon out of all the development experience out of VirtualBox? I know, its a bit too late or that but you just never know!
Cloud Computing is coming and whether you [...]
Apple and VMware: Max OS X Server on your VMware Fusion 2.x!
By Tarry Singh at 14 June, 2008, 11:35 pm
I have long waited to get VMware support for Mac OS X. Why? When I started out with the Oracle RAC series on VMware, I had a plan. Lately I am saving the world and have taken some distance from the articles
I wanted to port RAC on all possible OSs. I got many [...]
