February 9, 2009 — I use my MacBook Pro for both business and personal. At home, I try to use the Mac side as much as possible while still running a Windows Vista virtual machine at the same time for development stuff. When I’m at work, all I run is Vista from my virtual machine on the MacBook and…

February 8, 2009 — A couple of weeks ago I posted a story about virtualized performance where I did a comparison between VMware Fusion and Sun’s VirtualBox.I wanted to update that story to include some details on Windows performance when Parallels is added to the mix.Interestingly enough, Parallels really isn’t that much further behind Fusion in terms of average…

February 6, 2009 — In my previous post, I talked about the difficulty keeping all your social networking sites up to date. When I was trying out Blogo tonight, I came across Ping.fm.The premise of Ping.fm is that “Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.”Exactly what I need. Once you create your free…

February 6, 2009 — Although primarily I’m a PC, I do like to see what options are available outside my virtualized environment and available on the Mac.Mac has a whole array of blogging applications available with a variety of features, but I’ve never been a fan of any of them. I’ve stayed pretty close to Windows Live Writer and…

February 5, 2009 — Lots of folks are trying to save money in their data centers by optimizing their infrastructure usage with virtualization. Interestingly enough, with the release of Hyper-V and Microsoft’s program for hardware virtualization vendors, the support policy for Exchange and other applications has changed.A couple of weeks ago, a post appeared on the Exchange Team Blog…