Mat on Macs

WOW! My 17″ iMac is now running a Virtualized copy of Win XP thanks to Parallels Workstation for Mac (luckily I still owned a copy of XP from the bad old days before I saw the Mac light). It is in fact, quite responsive, though there is definitely still quite a bit of work to be done (e.g. networking is fragile–thanks to endemic Windows suckiness–and there’s no sound support yet), but this is really shocking. Firefox and WIndows Media Player run just fine, opening up web content previously unavailable on the Mac. I’m personally much more interested in a virtualization solution like this one that in dual booting, though I’m also going to try Boot Camp tomorrow just see what kind of gaming performance old Bonaventure is capable of. All in all, an amazing week; watch out for those flying pigs!

Well this is insanely ironic. MacVolPlace publishes a picture of some kind of operations center at Major League Baseball, showing them running lots of OS X machines with Apple 20″ Cinema Displays galore. Of course, MLB.TV runs like crap on the Mac since it depends on Windows Media. As of version 2.02 Flip4Mac will play the streams, but it doesn’t work yet on Mactels! Of course the real question is why MLB is using Windows Media in the first place, especially if they’re doing lots of work on Macs, presumably in QT. Ugh.

I got this via MacVolPlace, but it looks like a scan from a newspaper. They don’t give the original source. Click on the picture of a larger version.

BTW, Go (defending National League Champion) Astros!

Update: They’ve released a bloated, but cool stand-alone Universal Binary: MLB.TV Mosaic.

Don’t know if I want it myself, but MacZOT is trying to get 259 bloggers to mention AppZapper, lowering the price by 5 cents a post. Forthwith, here’s my contribution. I’ve never used AppZapper, but I have purchased from MacZOT before and I like the idea.

MacZot like Woot for Mac software; one discounted title per day. I picked up RapidWeaver for about $10 off the regular price a couple of days ago.

This is an interesting idea. Clearly some blog mentions (e.g. TUAW’s) are worth a lot more than others, but I’m guessing that this is a really good way to publicize the existence of this application, since after all it’s going to be the hardcore Mac geeks doing this, and it’s costing the publisher very little. I doubt, however, that this is sustainable; we bloggers probably aren’t going to be willing to whore every product that comes along. But this one gets dibs for being first.