All posts by Megan Spurr

How to Save Your Smartphone Battery (Interactive Infographic)

Raise your hand if you’ve drained your battery more than once in a day! I love my smartphone, but I clearly use it more than what this little battery can handle. (I’m looking at you, Fallout Shelter—that game sucks more battery and time out of my day than anything else.) There are lots of tips […]

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Coherence Mode: Aka, What is that Blue Button?

You may have noticed a new feature in screenshots of Parallels Desktop 11 and Parallels Desktop 11 Pro: that little blue button next to your close and minimize screen buttons? It’s our Coherence Mode button! (It turns out the Coherence Mode button doesn’t always have a bunch of yellow stars around it—but I am a […]

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Our Favorite iOS Productivity Apps

I’m always looking for tools to help me get more done, and done faster. I’m not lucky enough to have my own Jarvis like Tony Stark—heck, I’d settle for Rosie from the Jetsons! Until then, here are my top 5 iOS apps that help keep me productive and on task. Google Drive / Google Docs […]

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6 Things You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do

Your iPhone is capable of more than you think. Have you tried any of these features or apps? Check out our list of six things you didn’t know your iPhone could do: 1. Siri can read email headers for you. You’re driving, and you get that all too familiar buzz signifying something new in your inbox. […]

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Everything You Need for an Awesome Remote Office

When I talk to people about my split schedule and how I work from home a few days a week, the first word out of their mouths is usually “Lucky!” or “Do you wear your pajamas all day?” (I will admit to taking my fair share of meetings in pajamas). Working from home now and […]

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Get it All in Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Business Edition

We’ve been talking a lot about the features of Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Business Edition (previously known as Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition), and I want to dig in a little more to be clear on all of the features from the new Parallels Desktop 11 Pro Edition that you also get in […]

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Always on Cortana in Parallels Desktop 11

One of the most widely anticipated features of Parallels Desktop 11 is Always on Cortana, the first awesome feature that Microsoft built into Windows 10 that’s worth bringing to Mac, in my opinion. I’m not just a fan of Cortana because of Halo (though it doesn’t hurt for this gamer’s heart–Cortana is the AI from […]

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Guest Blog: MacBook Pro + Parallels Desktop + Windows 8.1 + Visual Studio + Xamarin = Awesome

This blog post is being reprinted with permission from the original author, Carl Franklin. We are extremely excited and pleased to get to share his post as a special guest blog this week! Read on to learn about his experience choosing and using Parallels Desktop on his MacBook Pro. I went searching for the ultimate developer machine […]

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Parallels 10 for 10: I Might Be in Love with My iPad Mini 3

I was handed an iPad Mini 3 a month ago when I started working at Parallels, and I’ll admit that I looked at it with some skepticism for a week before it made its way into my regular tech rotation. It was only a few days later that I wanted to carve my initials in […]

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