Gordon's Tech

I’m swearing off Wirecutter. Again. It’s not that their recommendations are awful, they’re just kind of inexpert. They don’t actually use t...

Our vintage 2006 MacBook Core 2 Duo can, in theory, run Lion [1]. I just upgraded it from Snow Leopard, which it ran reasonably well albeit...

My "pre-allocated" VMWare image was taking up 120 GB on my drive for about 40GB of data. I found many references on how to shrink ...

I've been using Retrospect Professional 8 to backup a Windows 7 machine. That machine has VMware VM running. There have been no backup e...

Between Dell machines shipping with motherboard disconnected SATA cables, a Clampi Trojan on my Windows 2003 server , a mysteriously vanishe...

I have sinned , but I have seen the light . Now that I've joined the Church of the disposable image, I need to catch up on some basics. ...

Post-Waterloo I'm a VM geek. So, as a part-time faculty person at the U of MN I was pleased to see that VMware has large academic disco...

It works on VMWare -- and it's free ... VMware: Team Fusion: Windows 7 on Mac with VMware Fusion: A Practical Guide Revisited ...

Great series of tests by MacTech, excerpted by Apple Insider: AppleInsider | Shootout: Parallels outperforms VMware Fusion in many tests ......

I love the competition between Parallels and VMWare. I very much hope they both thrive ... MacInTouch: timely news and tips about Apple...

The headlines are all about server-based voice search: Now you can speak to Google Mobile App on your iPhone . So far the voice search seems...

We don't have a spreadsheet for our OS X machines. Sure, I could install Microsoft Office, but I'm not all that fond of Excel - and ...

I hate OS X permissions problems. There were enough of them before Apple introduced ACLs in 10.4 alongside UNIX permissions. The dual para...

About a year ago I expected that my future iPhone would be joined by the Bose QC 2 mobile communications kit. The kit adds a microphone to B...

As part of my move from 10.4.11 to 10.5.3 I switched from Parallels (Windows 2000 VM running Office 2003 and MindManager to VMWare Fusion (u...

I try. Really, I try. I knew 10.5.0 had severe quality problems . I waited until 10.5.3 was out, though the install DVD was still 10.5.1. I ...

Uninstall is not an OS X strength. It's not quite as bad as OS/2, where nothing could be uninstalled, but it's not good. (Note to se...

Via TUAW . It's a free OpenSource app now maintained by Sun. It won't have the support of VMWare Fusion (current leader) or Parallel...

The world's greatest blogging tool has a new and improved Plug-In gallery . (The Firefox Blog widget is prominently featured.) As fon...

Microsoft Research's WWT has Mac support ... WorldWide Telescope For Mac: Microsoft® XP SP2 (minimum), Windows® Vista® (re...