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Parallels Desktop for Mac

Parallels Desktop for Mac is the leading virtualization solution for the Mac, enabling Mac users to run Windows simultaneously with their Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro Towers.

The latest release of Parallels delivers easy to use migration tools, USB 2.0 support, innovative Coherence technology, and much more. It’s never been easier to run Mac OS and Microsoft Windows side by side.

With Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can:
Run your favorite Mac and Windows applications at the same time without rebooting
Seamlessly connect to any network in both Mac OS and Windows using a shared network connection
Achieve a high level of performance for Windows on your Mac by leveraging Intel technology - an industry leading solution available on Parallels Software
Copy and paste items between your Mac desktop and your Windows desktop
Quickly create multiple virtual machines by using the new Parallels Installation Assistant
Create “Active” backups by using Parallels Desktop for Mac in conjunction with Parallels Compressor
Achieve optimal virtual machine performance and reduce disk space by 50% or more with the new Parallels Compressor

Innovative new features:
Parallels Installation Assistant making installing Parallels Desktop for Mac easier than before
Parallels Coherence providing seamless integration and allowing you to maintain a single, integrated environment for running all of your applications
Parallels Transporter allowing you to easily migrate your existing system to any Parallels enabled computer.
Full USB 2.0 support allowing you to connect all of your favorite devices to your operating system of choice
Full support for OS X and Windows Vista
Automatic network configuration seamlessly connecting your new virtual system to the Internet without any manual network reconfiguration

Parallels Coherence:
Run Windows applications like they were native Mac applications

A groundbreaking feature that lets users run Windows applications without seeing Windows. When a user switches to Coherence mode, their Windows desktop disappears, leaving their Windows applications running directly on their Mac desktop. This is the first opportunity ever for Mac users to run Windows applications in an effectively native environment!

How does it work?

Coherence is new, unique view mode that enables users to work with Windows applications on their Mac without seeing the Windows operating system. In Coherence mode, the entire Windows OS is running, just like it would in windowed or full-screen mode, but the user doesn’t see it, eliminating the confusing and sometimes jarring switch between the Windows and Mac desktop.

To enable easy access to Windows applications in Coherence mode, users can add any Windows shortcut icon to their Mac application dock, and load the program just by clicking the icon, like they would do with any normal Mac application. Users can also choose to show or hide the Windows task bar if they’d like. If the Windows taskbar is hidden, a user can access the Windows start menu by clicking the Parallels Desktop icon in the Mac application dock.

Why is it important?

The introduction of Coherence is a fundamental shift in the way computer users work with virtualization and multiple operating systems. It changes the question from “which operating system do I need to work in?” to “Which application is best for the task at hand?” By enabling Windows applications to run on a Mac desktop without any traces of the Windows operating system in view, users can get more done in less time, and truly experience the best of the Windows and Mac worlds.

Ipod Movies and Music Downloads

Ipod Movies and Music Downloads by Thomas Martin

Where to get safe and legal downloads for your iPod on the cheap!

iPods are great! What more can I say? If you don't have one yet, you just don't know what you're missing out on. I didn't either.

I actually have the very first, original iPod that was manufactured. I just had to have it. My own personal reasons were that I travel in the car a lot and wanted to listen to my Coast To Coast radio shows that I never get to listen to at home.

Now, I've actually been on a Mac for over 10 years, but the company laptop is of course a PC. I was really anticipating problems with the conversion, what with that entire Mac to PC stuff. To my surprise, all I did was download iTunes for the PC and drag and drop my folders of the shows into iTunes. Then I just hooked up the iPod to the PC and downloaded the shows to the iPod. Was I shocked or what?

After awhile, I got a bit bored with all the shows and wanted some variety. Sure, I could rip my own CD's and transfer those to the iPod, but I also wanted some audio books to listen to on those 7 hour drives. That's when I discovered how cheap it is to legally download everything I could ever want and transfer it to my iPod.

I was also given the new iPod Photo for a birthday gift. At first, I thought it was simply for loading photos. Then, I didn't think I'd watch music videos but I was interested in watching movies in my downtime. I just wasn't sure where to get them and how to do it.

I used the Apple store at first to download some videos but I have to tell you, that decision ate right through my pocketbook. What Apple does is charge you per download and in the end, you're basically paying retail for everything. You have to buy a la carte.

I then read review after review on download services. I had read about people downloading malware and viruses in addition to having extremely slow download speeds, even with a broadband connection. I then ran across a review by Top Service Review that rated the top three iPod download services and I ended up joining the Editors Pick.

What I've gotten with an iPod download service is simply this: I paid a small fee that's good for lifetime, unlimited access! Not monthly, not per download, but forever…I can log in anytime of day or night, 365 days per year and download movies (some that have just hit the theatres), music, videos, television show episodes, audio books, music videos and sporting events. Included in the deal, I also got all the conversion and ripping software to convert the DVD movies and transfer them to my iPod along with tons of video and audio tutorials.

In a nutshell, I've got so much stuff; I can't fit it all in my iPod. It just sits here and waits for its turn.

You really want to be careful about the service you sign up for; many of them claim to have unlimited access and it's not. Others claim fast download speeds but their servers are jam-packed and you'd think you were on dial-up. Others download malicious code onto your computer for their own insane reasons. I personally went with a particular site that I post on my blog because the rating and reviews were all 5 Star. I haven't been sorry to date.

Even if you have an iPod Mini or an iPod nano and can't watch movies and television shows on your iPod, you can still rack up on music, audio books and audio feeds, since they offer well over 95,000,000 media files. Let's put it this way, it's still cheaper than two DVD's. I sure am glad I got the 60GB iPod!



Top iPod download sites reviewed

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Put Youtube Movies On Your iPod

Put Youtube Movies On Your iPod by Thomas Martin

A couple of times a week, I like to browse through YouTube and download a handful of the latest "must see" clips onto my iPod to share with my wife (who just doesn't have the patience to wade through all the skateboard tricks, playground fights, and "teen" diaries). It used to be a bit of a chore to download and convert those videos, but over the past few months, a flood of little helper applications have hit the Internet.

I've actually been meaning to get around to recommending a few of the YouTube download programs here, but every time I sit down to start writing I realize that as a Mac user, it's difficult for me to recommend a program for the majority of my readers, who are Windows users. Yesterday, Lifehacker recommended a website that not only downloads any YouTube Flash video file, but also converts it into your choice of five different formats, including iPod mp4. Vixi.net's FLV Online Converter is amazingly simple to use, and works directly from your browser. Just enter the URL of the video's webpage, select the format you want it converted to, and press the start button. The download and conversion are surprisingly quick, and once it's finished Vixi automatically downloads it to your computer. Simple.

There is a ton of good content on YouTube, but copyright infringement claims and DMCA take-down notices mean that any given video can disappear at any time. Having a local copy of the video means you won't lose access if YouTube removes the video from their site. And if you convert the video to MP4 format, you can transfer it to your iPod as well.

Doing this appears to be in compliance with YouTube's Terms of Use, as long as you do not distribute the videos to others, and you retain any copyright notices on the files (see sections 2A and 4).

There are two excellent free services that take YouTube videos, download them to your hard drive, convert them to MP4 format and add them to iTunes. For Windows users, try iTube, available here. Mac users should use PodTube, although it requires the use of Safari.

If you just want to get access to the file and view it directly (the VLC media player will play flash-format video files) and/or convert it to another file format, you can download any YouTube video using Oyoom, or try the Firefox extension called Video Downloader. We've also written our own tool to download YouTube videos, available on this page, and it's also embedded below. Just enter any YouTube video URL and hit the "Get Video" button.

Once you have the .flv video on your hard drive, view it with VLC, or convert it to another format. For Windows users, try Replay Converter. For Mac users we recommend iSquint. There are also a few online file conversion services, but they are not as reliable as desktop software and you have to wait for both the upload and the download.



For additional web tools and information on putting youtube movies on your iPod visit, http://www.topdownloadz.net


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How Good Is The Apple iPod

How Good Is The Apple iPod by DMF

What you need to do before looking into an mp3 player, first you need to know how you want to use it, and how much music you want to be able to have on it. There is no doubt that the Apple iPod has become a common item amongst today's youth as a great music player. In fact, the iPod is more than a music player.

If your digital music collection remains relatively small, you’re probably better off with an iPod mini. But if it takes 30 days to play your music collection from end to end, if you’d like to use the iPod’s, with the iPods additional space for file storage and now the battery life has been extended the new iPods are incredible.

Everyone knows that Apple owns the mp3 business. The incredible look, sound, style, the navigation and features put this all together with the integration with software program iTunes and other mp3 services, this is an incredible revolutionary advancement in the mp3 player world. MP3 audio encoded at up to 320Kbps. Not only do they have the normal features of a mobile phone but they’re also adopting a higher standard of digital camera and a built in MP3 player.

The Apple Video Ipod. 5-inch screen on the iPod video is incredibly bright and sharp and and it great when you want to watch videos on it, the screen measures 320x240. Today’s devices are able to hold 20,000 – 25,000 photos and are able to play 50-100 hours of video and can hold up to 8,000 songs, this is an incredible achievement

This year, the Nano was introduced, to a huge customer buying frenzy. With its small compact design and packed with an incredible amount of flash memory storage than the any other mp3 out there, the Apple iPod Nano is slim, light weight and the convenience and portability is unmatched in with all other devices. Depending on the storage capacity of the device you are able to get them in different sizes, 1 GB, 2 GB or 4 GB.

If you want to buy second hand there is the earlier models like iPod Photo, iPod mini and 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th generation iPods. It was designed to replace the iPod Mini and neatly fills the gap that the iPod Mini left. It was introduced to replace the iPod mini, which was discontinued. Many people could not believe when Apple discontinued its mini device, this took everyone by surprise, everyone wanted to know what flash system was replacing it, and there was no advanced notice for all of this.

The small iPod shuffle was designed to be light weight, super-mobile, you can wear the device around your neck this makes it possible to listen to music when in a gym, walking or running or riding a bike. The most notable feature of the iPod Shuffle is its physical dimensions.

One of the best things about the iPod is that it has a simple user interface, it can store many videos, songs and information, it is light weight and it looks great and very recognizable.



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Apple Computer rocks world with NEW PHONE by Richard Stoyeck

Stock Research – Apple Computer rocks world with NEW PHONE by Richard Stoyeck

It is extremely rare in the business world to find a corporation that starts a revolution, and then the very same company leads another revolution. Steve Jobs who runs Apple Computer successfully stood the computer world on its high legs, and then shook its foundation when he created with his associates the very first personal computer. Yes, there were others before him, but they were nothing in comparison to the Apple. The operating system that Apple uses is still acknowledged to be vastly superior to anything that giant Microsoft has ever come out with.

Jobs did make one mistake however, and this mistake cost him his only opportunity to become the richest man in the world. Several decades ago, Apple had the opportunity to license the operating system to other personal computer manufacturers. Jobs made the mistake of believing that it was ABOUT THE HARDWARE. In reality, it was about the software.

Apple never licensed the software, and Microsoft did, which allowed the inferior Microsoft system to become the industry standard, which it still remains today. Gates became the richest man in the world, while Jobs had to settle for selling Apple personal computers with the software embedded into the hardware.

As an aside, the best investment Jobs ever made was probably the 10 million he put up to buy half of Pixar films. Disney passed on that $10 million deal, instead choosing to pay $4 billion plus for the same $10 million dollar investment that Jobs made, only it was several years later.

Jobs' creation of the iPod revolutionized the music industry, which has experienced no growth for years until Apple came along and sold a 100,000,000 iPods that required music and its associated royalty fees. The music industry should give an award ceremony just for Apple.

Now Steve Jobs and Apple Computer, soon to become Apple Inc. are at it again. This time Jobs and company have created a cell phone device that threatens to create hegemony over the entire cell phone industry. The problem today with sophisticated cell phones is that they are too difficult to operate. The buttons on the blackberry require that you use a stylus to trigger them. Another cell phone, the Treo is not that much better in terms of operational design features.

What Jobs has done for this industry is take it to the next level, and what a level it is. It really shouldn't be called an iPhone. The phone features of this device are probably the least interesting. I have spoken to two technology mavens that have access to this new device, and their features startled both. This is the equivalent of going from silent films to the talking movie era.

Imagine yourself struggling with the Blackberry small buttons or the Sony Treo? Now along comes the iPhone. There are practically no buttons on the device. It's got a very large screen, which dominates the front of the device, and it is a touch screen. You operate it by finger alone. It scrolls the various listing almost like a roulette wheel. It slows down, and zeros in on the item you want. As it is slowing down, you have the opportunity to re-engage the scroller. It's almost as if it has artificial intelligence built into it – that's how good the user interface is.

This flicking or scrolling feature also applies to iTunes software and your photo collection, address book, videos, and podcasts. With a 3.5 inch screen, movies are far superior to previous Apple products, and there's real time e-mail delivery similar to a corporate Blackberry but without the extra fees involved.

Now without the small keys that I have on my Blackberry, you have to touch the screen of the Apple to send messages. It is clearly not as precise as the tactile response of a Blackberry, but the software wildly overcomes that deficit. The Apple software has spelling correction software built into it, so if you hit the wrong key the device corrects it.

Browsing the web with this device is a mindblower due to what is called the "Pinch feature". You can take a Web page that you are looking at, and with your thumb and forefinger pinch the picture wider or narrower, higher or lower. The real beauty here is the simplicity of the entire device.

Most products that are designed by engineers are created with an added level of complexity built into it. It's like a writer that wants to use words that very few people understand. Why do people design like this? It's because they want to impress themselves, and others with their brainpower. What is more interesting is how such designs survive to become marketed products.

The American car market self-destructed when for 20 years, the companies were run by financial / accounting types, not people who LOVED CARS. Apple has clearly developed a corporate culture that puts functional design first, and engineers, and software geeks second. From the PC to the iPod, and now the iPhone, we have a history of fabulous, sterling products coming out of this American design factory.

These guys even put the speaker on the bottom front edge of the product . I have a Motorola Razor that when I put down in the car, I can't hear it when it rings, the speaker is on the back. You will notice that Motorola stock took a hit to the downside this week with the unveiling of the iPhone. Apple's new product is not cheap. It will sell between $500 and $600 per phone depending upon storage capability. Cingular will be the only carrier at the moment.

So the real question is at this price point how much of the market can the iPhone capture. My firm's answer is plenty. Apple is looking to ship 10 million phones by the end of 2008. This equals about 1 percent of annual worldwide cell phone sales. We think that the sales goal is easily achievable.

You can buy a Blackberry, Treo, or Razor cell phone for $200 to $300. You still need an iPod if you are into music. The iPod sells for a couple of hundred dollars by itself. At some point Cingular, or other cell phone companies will be kicking in part of the cost in order to get subscribers. That amount is usually up to $100 per phone. We see people standing on line to get this product. Will you be one of them, I will?

People pay big bucks for snob appeal and status, and this product qualifies for the ultimate status definition. Status is buying things you don't need, with money you don't have, to impress people you don't know. Stay tune for more.

Goodbye and Good Luck




Richard Stoyeck’s background includes being a limited partner at Bear Stearns, Senior VP at Lehman Brothers, Kuhn Loeb, Arthur Andersen, and KPMG. Educated at Pace University, NYU, and Harvard University, today he runs Rockefeller Capital Partners and StocksAtBottom.com.
http://www.stocksatbottom.com





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