Switching to Mac – Migrating Your PC Data

by Tom Nelson A question that comes across my desk from time to time is, “How do I move my PC stuff to my new Mac?”. This is a question I love to hear, not only because it means more and more people are using Macs, but also because it’s an easy question to answer. [...]

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Windows 7 and OS X Lion Do Get Along

by Tom Nelson I got a frantic note from a reader asking how to share files on a Windows 7 PC with a Mac running OS X Lion. She got a new Mac to use at home, but her husband has a laptop PC, and they couldn’t get them to connect. Mac and Windows file [...]

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How to Share Windows 7 Files With OS X Lion

by Tom Nelson My home network contains a mixture of both Macs and PCs. The PCs run various operating systems, including Windows 7. I like to be able to access my Windows files from my Mac, so I set both systems up for file sharing. The process isn’t difficult; in fact, it takes only a [...]

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Share Windows 7 Files with OS X Lion

by Tom Nelson If you have a mixed network of PCs and Macs, then you will more than likely want to be able to share files between the two competing OSes. It might sound like you’ve got some sticky times ahead of you, to get two different OSes talking to each other, but in fact, [...]

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Share OS X Lion Files With Windows 7 PCs

by Tom Nelson If you hear that sharing Lion files with Windows 7 is difficult, time consuming, or just doesn’t work, don’t believe it. Setting up Lion to share files with Windows 7 is an easy process that may take up to 15 minutes of your time. For that 15 minutes, you will gain an [...]

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Optimizing Parallels Desktop

by Tom Nelson Parallels Desktop for Mac 6.x won this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards in the Best Application For Running Windows category. With that win under its belt, there will probably be a good many About: Macs readers looking to get the most performance possible out of Parallels Desktop for Mac. We have just the [...]

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Windows 7 and OS X – A Guide to File and Printer Sharing With Windows 7 and OS X

by Tom Nelson I’ve gotten quite a few questions recently about getting a Mac and a Windows 7-based PC working together on a small business or home network. Usually, I answer the question by pointing the individual to one of the network sharing guides for Windows 7 and OS X that are available here at [...]

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Optimizing Parallels Desktop for Mac

by Tom Nelson I’ve been using Parallels, and various other virtualization environments, for years on my Mac. I use them to run Windows applications I may need for work (or play), as well as to use as a test mule for OS X Server, which I use at home for our business. By running a [...]

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Apple Finally Releases Windows 7 Boot Camp Drivers

by Tom Nelson Apple promised that Windows 7 drivers for Boot Camp would be available by the end of the year; 2009, that is. After an additional 19-day wait, Apple has finally delivered the driver updates. The new Boot Camp drivers address issues with wireless mice and keyboards, the ability to use the Magic Mouse [...]

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Windows 7 Upgrade Considerations For Business: Is Your Company Ready?

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor | PC Today, January 2010, Vol 8, Issue 1. With the release of Windows 7, Microsoft hopes to nudge fence-sitting users of its older operating systems – Windows 2000, Windows XP, and even Vista – to move up to what it considers its latest and greatest OS. Making the [...]

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