Category Archives: Parallels Desktop 11

Customer Story: Taekwon-Do Competition Uses Parallels Desktop for Mac

Meet Sam Wood. Sam is a real power-user of Parallels Desktop for Mac; it is an essential part of his workflow as an organizer of a Taekwon-Do competition and as a software developer. Today, he would like to share its virtues and benefits with you. Sam is one of the organizers of a famous Taekwon-Do competition […]

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Case Study: Parallels Desktop is Vital for Cross-Platform Development

“I would recommend other developers take a good look at the new Pro Edition. With its integrated productivity and network tools and support for cloud services, it is practically the only option for programmers and app developers in my opinion.” ~ Rafael Regh, Student Developer Award-winning student-developer Rafael Regh needed to simultaneously develop professional apps […]

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Easy ways to backup your virtual machine

Guest blog by Manoj Kumar Suresh, Parallels Support Team Easy ways to backup your virtual machine There are many perks of using a virtual machine over a regular PC. One of my favorites being how easy it is to backup and to restore my virtual machines. Below I’ll go over several ways to backup your […]

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12 Tools Every Student Needs

Whether you’re in high school, college, or getting your Masters, you need these student tools if you’re hitting the books on the regular. From apps that help you write like Hemingway to a way to run Windows on your Mac, we’ve got you covered—just check out our list of top twelve tools every student needs […]

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The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People

How do you structure your day? Sometimes, it pays to take a page out of a famous creative’s book when it comes to structuring your time for productivity. You’ll see what we mean by checking out the below graphic from Podio, which shows how famously creative minds such as Benjamin Franklin, Maya Angelou and Charles […]

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Is Your Virtual Machine Optimized?

Guest blog by Manoj Raghu, Parallels Support Team Need a better performing virtual machine? Do you work on the Windows side more often than on the Mac? Let me guide you through a few built-in settings in Parallels Desktop that will have a positive impact on your VM performance. Using Optimization settings, you can: Balance […]

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7 Things Every Web Developer Needs to Know

Think you know everything you need to about web development? Considering just how much true web development encompasses, it can be hard to know everything from cover-to-cover. Still, there are certain things every web developer should know. We asked members of our own web team at Parallels what they thought those nebulous things were, and […]

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Case Study: Parallels Desktop is Like a Swiss Army Knife

“With Parallels Desktop, we found a solution which offers the perfect combination of high performance, ease of use, and reliability at a very attractive price.” ~ Roman Rabitsch, founder and CEO of Angelbird Angelbird Technologies sought a solution to minimize equipment. Their developers, graphics team, and web designers were all looking for, and would benefit […]

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Windows 10 Explorer: 3 Tips for Mac Users

Parallels Desktop users tend to the on the cutting edge of what is happening in both the Mac and the Windows worlds. Two proof points: by far, the most used Mac OS by Parallels Desktop 11 users is Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) (Figure 1), and the most used guest OS in Parallels Desktop […]

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Behind the Scenes with Channel 9

Last week, Parallels was lucky enough to be invited on to Microsoft’s Redmond, WA campus and chat about virtual machines! We had a wonderful time playing with their fantastic studio, talking about virtual machines, Parallels Desktop for Mac, our advanced networking features, and our Visual Studio plugin. Check out our video on Channel 9, and some behind-the-scenes […]

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