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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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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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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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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The following post is a customer story submitted to our Advocacy program by Andy Cohen. We are incredibly thankful to Andy for sharing his story with us and allowing us to share it with you. Read on for Andy’s experience choosing and using Parallels Desktop. Name: Andy Cohen Geography: Vienna, Virginia USA Industry: Software manufacturer Role: Business Development Consultant, Anytrax Meet […]
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Guest blog by Manoj Raghu, Parallels Support Team “Hold on, John,”—Or How to Save Time While Accessing Your Virtual Machine Files without Starting Parallels Desktop Let’s picture a situation when you are on a call with a client and need to send that file right away, but then you realize you saved it in your […]
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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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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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The following post is a customer story submitted to our Advocacy program by Marc L. We are incredibly thankful to Marc for sharing his story with us and allowing us to share it with you. Read on for Marc’s experience choosing and using Parallels Desktop. This week, Parallels Desktop user Marc L. explains how he uses Parallels Desktop. Marc is a writer for […]
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Are you secretly a Guardian of Light and the Traveler after work? Do you like to fight all the monsters, and run to pick up the next God of Diablo Vania game when it releases? Or do you schedule days off of work to hunker down and dig into the big Dragon Age game when […]
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