Parallels has released Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate 3 (Build 3170).
New features and enhancements introduced in Release Candidate 3 include:
• Windows XP to Windows Vista upgrade support
• USB 2.0 support – “Plug and play” popular USB devices like external hard drives, printers, scanners and web cameras including iSight at full native speed
• Full-feature virtual CD/DVD drive – Burn CDs and DVDs directly in virtual machines, and play any copy-protected CD or DVD
• Coherence improvements
• Improved Boot Camp support
• For advanced users: configurating the layout of Boot Camp partitions by manual editing of Virtual Machine’s .pvs configuration file
• Transporter RC3 bundled – migrate your real Windows PC, or existing VMware or Virtual PC VMs to Parallels virtual machines
• Keyboard remapping configuration
• New Look and Feel – completely redesigned windows and easier to follow dialogues to make Desktop for Mac more user-friendly than ever
• True “Drag and Drop” functionality – a long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Parallels Desktop now shares the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows – no more worrying about which copy of the file is the most recently updated
More info and download link here.
Martin,
I’m with Walter Chillum on this one. There are way too many people in English speaking countries who just can’t spell. So he’s a teacher, big deal. He wasn’t being nasty but he did make a valid point. So then you try to nuke him? WiseGuy just can’t spell, or just can’t be bothered to check his contribution.
Walter, you must hate F. S. Fitzgerald, don’t you?
Walter, spell checking is better implemented from the top down (i.e. from websites) than trying to convince billions of people to adopt your stringent standards and remember to maintain them at all times.
Degradation of the English language is enviable otherwise.
Walter:
1. I agree with you that spelling errors are bad.
2. I also agree with you that people are becoming more careless and casual about these sorts of things days, even mainstream businesses (the title of Will Smith’s latest movie, for example, with its spelling error (Happyness) shocked me).
Part of this is due to the speed of communication today, particularly IM and the resulting urge to abbreviate and not read things over, much less spell check. This, not surprisingly, is spreading to email, forums.
3. I also agree with the other posters that you need to lighten up MORE than a bit – acknowledge that the edge of the universe is NOT the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans…. Not everybody’s native language is English….
4. And, most importantly: you are a teacher, and you have “hates”?! Intense feelings, fine, hates – NOT fine.
It seems like you’re doing the emotional equivalent of not using a spell checker. Perhaps you’re in a bad mood and have not learned to self regulate; you certainly have lots of company.
5. HOWEVER, I sure as heck hope you’re not passing this intolerance/lack of control on to your students.
If fact, I am shocked that you, as a teacher, are not showing more self control – did you actually think before you wrote?
Have you considered talking to a professional about this?
OMG, did everyone wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
1) Even if Parallels and OSX share the same file structure, a PC virus can’t infect a Mac.
2) I agree with Walter. I’ve posted here without spell checking first and it’s embarrassing. However, I think most chronic misspellers just don’t care.
3) Martin, how did you make the leap to Walter picking on non-native English speakers? I think we always cut them some slack. I know the English language is quite hard to learn as it doesn’t follow any concrete rules, like I before E except after C. Yeah great, what about “weird” then?
spelling can be checked with safari (automatically, right click, spelling->check spelling as you type), it catches “seperate”, so it’s a valid criticism.
but i really don’t want to be criticized for my grammar, english is my fourth language, i learned most of it by reading sites, and watching the BBC.
i know this is not about me, this time, but i have insulted on other sites, some people seem to think that u are stupid when u can’t write well, that’s ridiculous.
Martin,
If English is not your first language then it is I who should apologise. I would never criticise a non-native English speaker; that’s just bad manners. Your grasp of the language is far superior to many English speakers who contribute to this site. However I was never disrespectful towards you and I do expect the same in return.
A word to to Sure Are Relieved. You might want to have a look at Roget’s Thesaurus’ “explanation” of the word dislike. The first alternative word is hate.
no apologies required
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i was just giving an example.
u never know if someone is english or not, so it’s probably wiser to talk about content, and not spelling or grammar.
(but please, activate the spelling checker
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God forbid that teachers — as individuals — have hates and loves! My goodness, no! We must bleach all teachers of strong opinions, for the world surely knows that no teacher can teach who loves (or hates) anything! No astronomy teacher worth his salt should rhapsodize about the placement of stars; no English teacher should declare his hatred of misspelled words; no math teacher should condemn the practice of not showing work! Why, the greatest teachers all throughout history were unemotional modicums of restraint and tolerance, right? Someone wheel over that homogenizing machine, and hurriedly pass through all the teachers, so that we may have our utopia as soon as possible. And when we are done with teachers, why, let us round up and pass through other troublemakers as well. You, boy! You’re next for the machine. Step to it now!
Martin,
You’re doing pretty darn good for English being your 4th language. Maybe you could teach some of the natives on this board to write.
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I have to admit, it drives me nuts when people’s posts are littered with errors, like “your” instead of “you’re”.
1. Intense, passionate, positive emotion (loves) is a wonderful thing, in my view. One does have to be careful however, this can be off-putting if overdone.
2. Intense, passionate, negative emotion (hates), for me, is problematic. Personally, I try and limit my negative emotion to intense dislikes, and not use the “H” word. Am I playing with words? Perhaps.
I want to avoid the blinded hate filled zealot that is the output of some “teaching”. To be fair, this “teaching” is more accurately called brainwashing.
I also want to avoid emotional, hateful responses to hate filled zealots .
3. Nuance, subtlety and balance are important concepts when it comes to emotion (among other things), particularly strong emotions.
This is especially the case when dealing with impressionable students with limited life experiences; that is, limited exposure to subtlety, nuance and balance.
Are there downsides to the things one strongly likes?
Are there upsides to the things one strongly dislikes?
Logic and objectivity demands an accounting of them. Its called critical thinking.
4. To be fair, we’re talking about English spelling.
And if there is one thing I hate, its hate
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5. In most countries there are limitations on speech: lying, uttering threats, yelling fire in a crowed theatre, hate speech.
So please lets not confuse ‘hate’ with ‘dislike’.
Downloading it now!
I LOVE this program! —
With all the strange hang-ups I have been having with Entourage lately, (Database Daemon Stops Responding – App does not respond) I think I may just start using Outlook for my email client now that I can supposedly run that without having to see Windows behind it!