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switch — the video

Update: Now with a soundtrack!
Just amazing stuff. Here’s a demo using VirtueDesktops to switch between OS X and Parallels with lots of eye candy. This is the solution I was hoping for back when the Intel announcement was made, only it plays much cooler than I anticipated.

Everything that I had an issue with before is […]

I haven’t booted into the Windows partition in over two weeks. The Parallels Beta4 is simply amazing. It now supports full-screen mode at least up to 1280×1024 (as much as I can handle on my secondary Dell LCD). I’ve been able to do everything I needed to (run web applications on the client network in […]

Scrolling Trackpad

Hands-down (pun intended), the design feature with the largest impact for me on the MacBook Pro has been the scrolling trackpad.
I have disabled the trackpad on every notebook computer I have owned. I was looking for the setting to disable it on the MBP when I found the “Use two fingers to scroll” setting […]

Update - It seems the unresponsive mouse issue has a very simple fix. Simply trun down the acceleration a notch as described below. I tried it quickly today and it seemed to improve the performance. I’ll try it out for a day to see if it it’s enough for an everyday environment or not.

In XP, […]