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The Best of Both Worlds

Parallels Windows in Coherence ModeParallels have release a new BETA of there Virtualization Application for mac os x with many updates, the biggest of which being “Coherence” this things rocks, so much its untrue.

How about Windows Taskbar at the bottom of the page and mac os x everywhere else, thats right the holy grail of being able to run everything you could ever want has been acheived. Apples’ decision to switch to intel seems all but justified now.

Running windows apps as if they were mac apps without have to have a separate window open is genius, how the hell they manage to do it is beyond me. What I do know is Macs are most definitely going from strength to strength and a actually think Parallels would be a welcomed acquisition for Apple, because Leopard could take this stuff and run to such a level were you can no longer tell you are virtualizing windows. For example download a file with safari that happens to be an .exe, double click it and windows opens it. Simple elegant and apple all over.

Come apple this is certainly a feature i would love to see in Leopard (if it isnt already in there)

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Why Mac OS X is really better than Vista

What a subject, and one subject to heated debate on both sides. but lets forget who started there photocopiers first and look at what makes Mac OS X better than Windows and more specifically Vista.

So both OSes are good at what they are meant to do;manage hardware resources, its all a OS has to do and they both do it well, but on-top of that there’s the nice pretty glass(aero/aqua if you prefer) on-top and then the applications themselves, the stuff we all use.

So Windows has VB and its various implementations of C for your coding no real clear cut way of making a program for people like me (beginner) but VB is extremely simple to get your foot through the door. So what about Mac OSX while theres Automator & Applescript and there’s Xcode and all that encompasses: cocoa and carbon. This is what makes the Mac much better from a users perspective and quite possibly a developers perspective also, there’s a clearly defined way to code and make the program, Apple has created extensive frameworks to code for and into, theres no complicated way of making your own chances are there already in the OS. An example of this would be creating a zip, typically on windows you would get winzip and zip up the file, with Mac OSX and Quicksilver a few key presses launch up the framework and compress the file to whatever you want.

So what makes it better, the simplicity of making extensible programs without the program being sick with DLLs and files on the Hard Disk, only one OS gives this seamlessly without hassle and you guessed it’s the Mac.

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The OS Maketh the User

This means that Mac users almost always have multiple windows and application visible. We can switch easily between them and, probably more importantly, they’re always there, reminding us of their existence, nagging us. We naturally become multi-taskers.

Mac users created, not born? – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

I find this interesting but also, how true do you find this?
I work in a mixed environment what some mac users would term a slider, I work on windows at College through the day and work on macs at home. I often find that I look for exposé features in windows but I also do find it frustrating that windows assumes you want the window full screen, when you hit maximise.
So I think I will stick with that while mac user choose mac, it makes the user more likely to multi-task because the way that the OS works. I wouldn’t say that the OS entirely makes the user.

In writing this post I learnt that pressing alt+e will let you put the little flick above letters ‘á’

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