All posts by Lindsay Scarpello

How to Test IE on Mac

Full disclosure: I’m not a web developer. I do, however, consider myself something of a DIY front-end web “meddler” (for lack of a better word). Basically, all that means is that I’ve set up/created enough smaller WordPress websites that I know my way around most basic-to-intermediate HTML, CSS, and PHP. Despite my lack of formal […]

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Get a Mac for the Holidays? Why Everyone Needs Windows on Mac

It’s a familiar scene: Christmas morning, an excited you tears at red and green wrapping paper, successfully ripping it off of a pretty white box—revealing a shiny new Mac. You’re jubilant! You’ve wanted to make the switch to Apple for years, but hadn’t yet taken the plunge. Then, suddenly, you have a sinking realization: what […]

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Celebrating You, Our Customers: Thanks for a Great Year!

As 2016 gets closer and closer, we can’t help but look back at the past year and feel a lot of different things: amazement, a sense of accomplishment, and most of all, gratitude. Gratitude towards you, our customers! Without you, none of what we do would be possible, so we wanted to take a moment […]

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How to Be a PowerPoint Power User (Infographic)

Despite what Michael Scott may say, PowerPoint is pretty cool. (Even cooler? PowerPoint on Mac with Parallels Desktop.) http://robertosgifs.tumblr.com/post/57688158803 Sure, the program has gotten a bad rep in the past for being the “standard” presentation tool for anyone and everyone, but the truth is, if you think PowerPoint is boring, well, you’re probably not using […]

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Did You Find All the Parallels Desktop 11 Easter Eggs?

Who doesn’t love a good Easter egg? No, not the kind you go digging for in the grass come springtime, but the kind that get a lot of “ooh’s” and “ah’s” when someone points it out in their favorite movie, book, TV show, etc. The Parallels dev team has been hiding Easter eggs inside of […]

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What to Do with an Old PC

It’s that time of year when that shiny new piece of hardware looks especially delightful. Whether you’ve added a new Mac to your gift list or are just eyeing it thanks to an amazing seasonal deal, we get it. But once you’ve ripped off the wrapping paper on your new MacBook, what do you do […]

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Solitaire in Windows 10 vs. Windows XP

As we all know, nostalgia can pack a powerful punch. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t love posting Throwback Thursdays/Flashback Fridays, and bringing back remnants of the 1990s wouldn’t be so enticing to millennials. (Though let’s be real, the 90’s were awesome.) Well, in honor of this Throwback Thursday, I’m revisiting a fan-favorite that should induce […]

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All the People Who Use Parallels Desktop (Infographic)

How do you use Parallels Desktop? When it comes to our users, we know one thing—you all use Parallels Desktop in a multitude of ways, for a multitude of reasons. And that’s so cool! Nothing is better than when we get to hear a user story about how they use it for a niche Windows program, […]

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The Life of Steve Jobs in One Infographic

Life goes by too quickly, and that truth is never as poignant as when we lose one of our brightest minds. When the world said goodbye to Steve Jobs in 2011, we knew we had lost a visionary—the same visionary who pioneered technology that continues to impact the market and the world every day. But […]

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7 Microsoft Excel Tricks Everyone Should Know

We all know and love Microsoft Excel, especially when you can run it on Mac using Parallels Desktop. It comes as no surprise that like the rest of Office, Excel is one of the most popular programs in the world. But for Excel newbies, sometimes using the powerful spreadsheet software can get a little confusing. […]

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