Comments on: Default Apps Across Platforms in Parallels

By: Daniel Nordstrom

Daniel Nordstrom — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:16:05 +0000

Oh, I tried that emulation thing (whatever they call it) for Windows applications, worked very nice. Too bad I’ve got low memory though. Anyhow, recommended software indeed.

By: Stephanie Guertin

Stephanie Guertin — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:19:36 +0000

@Matt - One of the first things that I turn off in Windows is that annoying notification, so I didn’t even know that. Thanks for the note!

@Ben - The guikit is Samui 2.0, and the icons are Agua with select changes. Samui 2.0 is Brian Zeitler’s, and is downloadable here: http://www.pixelnetdesign.com/downloads/themes/
Agua is designed by David Lanham, and can be found here: http://www.dlanham.com/art/agua/

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:59:38 +0000

Okay, off the topic, now, but what GUIKit are you using? And the icons? That looks pretty slick.

By: seth

seth — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:46:03 +0000

Matt you can turn off the new apps installed thing in the task bar properties within windows. But I do agree, Parallels has a ways to go to be perfect, but at least there is competition to make them step up their game, i’m referring to VMWare Fusion.

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:41:10 +0000

I’d agree with that. But what drives me nuts is that Parallels sees the Mac apps as newly installed programs, so you always have “new programs where added” balloon pop up all the time.

I love Parallels, but it still has a ways to go.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:28:05 +0000

-Any Adobe CreativeSuite app. There is no need at all for a Windows and a Mac version of that expensive license, and you still don’t have to wait for massive .psd documents to copy to the Parallels VM. Or even better, for those who don’t want to run it in Rosetta.

So you’d rather emulate Windows to run CS1/2 than run the app through Rosetta? I think that Rosetta would still win the speed test.

$500 upgrade to CS3? Worth every penny.