- Help and tips
- Virtual PC - Windows emulation on a Mac - You must update to 7.0.2 to use it with Tiger Update:
Jan 06: Virtual PC does not run on the new
Intel-based Macs - try Boot Camp (must boot to OS X or Windows) or Parallels Desktop!
- News
- Printing
- Compressing PDF files
- Screen snapshots
- Scanners
- Keyboard (for those "missing" keys) & Speech recognition
- iChat
- Other ways to emulate DOS & Windows on a Mac
- Quicktime & other video, EyeTV & Front Row
- Converting video to AppleTV format.
- iPod, iPhone (tethering)
- Roaming internet (Optusnet wireless)
- Filemaker database for Mac and
Windows
- Links - more tips, printing, hardware,
software, antivirus, astronomy
software
- Loverly Spam! (iTunes needed)
This page is getting too large! One day I will find time to split it into several pages by topic. In the meantime please use the contents listing above or "Find" with Control-F (Command-F on a Mac).
April 03: Check the screen snapshot. Open
Access 4
running in a window
of Windows 98 running in a window of OS X on an iMac?
Yes I have abandoned WINTEL and bought an Apple. All
my old DOS and Windows programs are running fine and I have all the
advantages of the OS X system (a STABLE unix-based platform). The
iMac will talk to WINTEL PCs on a LAN but I needed to buy a router in
order to have both a cable modem and the LAN working (as I would have
with a WINTEL LAN and a cable modem linked by Ethernet). The router has
cable and wireless
support
and so now I can wander around the office with my laptop and stay
linked to the LAN - including data on the iMac. My advice is that if
you are
thinking of upgrading to Windows XP then
have a serious look at the eMac
and
iMac instead. Add Virtual
PC
and install your old (unused) Windows (95-XP) and you
have a system able to run that "legacy" sofware. You have a
choice of running Microsoft Office (again your old unused
version) under the Virtual
Windows or upgrading to the superior MS Office:Mac
for OS X . It will read and write files
that are fully compatible with WINTEL Office. Why write this today?
Well my old WINTEL PC crashed again
and I had to do a c:
drive restore using Norton Ghost. OA also runs well in Dosbox for OS X - drop Windows altogether!
