How to Resize Your Parallels Drive, and Get Windows to Recognize. Download details: IE App Compat VHD. IEBlog : IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh. Installing PALTALK under Mac + enabling iSight under Parallels - After making the move from a PC to a Mac nearly a year ago, I still had the need to use one last Windows related program that was not available (nor ever will be) for Macintosh.... I am huge fan of the Opie and Anthony show, and enjoy being part of their morning community that congregates on PalTalk using video cameras. For those looking to use a program like Paltalk or perhaps even Skype on their Mac Book Pro or Macbook, these instructions will prove to be quite valuable, particularly for the fact I was able to get iSight to work with Paltalk. The instructions I am providing have been tested and do work under Windows XP and Parallels desktop.. Macbook or Macbook Pro using iSight 1.
Install Parallels, Windows XP, and then Parallels Tools. To install Parallels Tools go to the top Parallels toolbar, select ACTIONS -> Install Parallels Tools 2. 3. 4. 5. There are more detailed instructions here if you run into problems. Mac Pro or similar desktop using external webcam 3. 3. 4. C# Nuggets : Visual Web Developer on a MacBook. After getting increasingly frustrated with a 5-year old operating system (Windows XP) I decided to buy a MacBook.
But what's an ASP.Net developer to do when they rely on Visual Studio? Why - run it on a Mac. I present, Visual Web Developer on a Mac: Here are the exact steps to do this. First you need the brilliant Parallels Desktop for Mac Virtual Machine with Windows installed. The trick is to use RDP to display only the Visual Web Developer window within the Mac environment using the open source rdesktop and seamlessRDP. With the developer tools installed from Apple's install CD, I did the following from a terminal: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@rdesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rdesktop login$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@rdesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rdesktop co -P rdesktop$ cd rdesktop$ . Create a shell script containing:#! Replacing the IP address above with the IP address of your Windows VM. Log off from Windows. Then from the Mac, run: $ open-x11 seamless And hey-presto!