Joe Kissell, well known for his Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, narrows his focus on the topic in his latest book, Take Control of VMWare Fusion. Joe compares VMWare Fusion with other solutions, describes what the newest version offers, covers how much hardware horsepower you need for a satisfying experience, and how it affects your Mac environment. Virus protection is more important than ever if you’re going to run Windows on your Mac; Joe explains why you need to take precautions, considerations for effective backups in a virtualized environment and more.
MacVoices #8133: Deke McClelland Talks Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One
Mac graphics master Deke McClelland is back to discuss his newest book, Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One, as well as two more titles coming very soon, his extensive video series for lynda.com, and more. Deke explains why his book is approachable for the Photoshop novice, but also has plenty of meat for the expert, and how the inclusion of four hours of high-quality video enhances the learning process. Deke is trying to solve the problems of bad or missing Photoshop documentation, and tells us about a feature that is 100% undocumented, and describes two recent projects that have links to “The Shining” and Star Trek, demonstrating why you just can’t trust what you see in any photo that you didn’t take.
MacVoices #8132: Paul Kent Profiles The New Features of Macworld Conference & Expo 2009
Paul Kent, the General Manager of Macworld Conference & Expo, discusses the biggest and best event of the Mac year, Macworld Conference & Expo 2009. Paul profiles the established and diverse set of conference programs, then highlights some of this year’s additions and innovations, including the forward-thinking Macworld Pulse Market Symposium, some of the new feature presentations and more. The ever-increasing Expo show floor, the parties, the people and the fun all are part of our discussion with Paul as he helps us kick off our annual Road to Macworld Expo series.
The Road to Macworld Expo is a special MacVoices series produced in partnership with Macworld Conference & Expo to preview some of the exhibitors, speakers and presentations at Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 in San Francisco from January 5-9 at the Moscone Convention Center.
MacNotables #840: A Virtual Video Visit with the Huntsville Macintosh Users Group
The MacNotables team of Adam and Tonya Engst and Chuck Joiner hit the road, virtually, to visit the Huntsville Macintosh Users Group. What’s new is that this was a video session, and even better, we captured it for you to enjoy. Adam and Tonya Engst answer questions about their attempts to make the Take Control books available to the visually challenged, why to upgrade (or not) to Leopard on older Macs, some server challenges, their pair of brand new MacBooks, and more.
(Due to a technical issue, the video goes into watercolor mode later in the show, but the audio is unaffected.)
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MacVoices #8131: Enhance Running Windows on Your Mac with Parallels 4.0
Rawee Kambhiranond, the Product Evangelist for Parallels, delivers an executive briefing on the highlights and improvements in the brand new Parallels 4. If you need to run Windows on your Mac, you need to know about Parallels Aadaptive Hypervisor and how it better allocates CPU power to the applications that need it, the improved integration between the Mac OS and Parallel’s virtualized environments, updates to shared USB devices, the Smart Connect feature that let’s you control where a USB device is recognized, Smart Mount, valuable security concerns and more.