To Mac, or to Windows? That’s your question, here’s my answer

Find out why I think Macs are a real compelling platform to consider as your next PC, even if you still need Windows to run some of your stuff.

Fixing Lion’s iCal’s CalDAV password problem

If you keep getting prompts to reenter the password for your CalDAV calendars on OS X Lion, here's a fix that might work for you.

How to access your files anywhere with SugarSync

Ever felt that even having a tablet, you still could never leave your notebook behind because you always have 'that' file that you might need. Well, here's how SugarSync, a cloud storage solution, can help you leave that notebook behind for good.

Parallels or VMWare Virtual Machines on an SSD: Is it worth it?

SSD is very expensive in terms of it's real estate and you simply do not want to put just about any junk you have that's not worth it's space there. Therefore, you would want to make sure if it's really worth plunking the tens of GBs worth of VM image onto your precious SSD storage. So, should you or should you not? Is there significant performance improvements that warrant the large chunk of the SSD dedicated to the VM image? Read on to find out!

VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7: A User’s POV

If you are uncertain whether to go for Parallels Desktop 7 or VMWare Fusion 4, perhaps this article could help you. Here's my A usability-based comparison of VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7. No useless benchmarks, no pointless feature-by-feature comparisons. Just purely based on my use of the two.

3+1 Reasons why Parallels 7 wins VS VMWare Fusion!

Just got that nice MacBook Air with the roaring Lion, then figured out that you need to run some Windows apps still? Fret not, here's how you can do just that and between the usual choice of Parallels vs VMWare, why I'd recommend you to put your money on Parallels instead.

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3 Reasons Why I Chose Parallels over VMWare Fusion

September 18, 2010

by Ken Ng

UPDATE: This article is refreshed in this latest published version here: 3+1 Reasons why Parallels 7 wins VS VMWare Fusion!

If you’re like me, especially if you are working in an organizations where a most of the internal ERP systems are built only for Windows platform, and is also a Mac user, chances are you would want to be able to run both Mac and Windows applications at the same time. And if you’ve done your homework online, you would More >

Fix: Parallels iPhone Service won’t start

August 4, 2010

by Ken Ng

Here’s a quick tip to fix for those of you Mac users who are using Parallels 5 as the virtualization solution.

Support came back to me with the following steps to fix the problem. First, quit Parallels if it’s already running. Then go through the steps noted below.

Go to /Library/Parallels/

Right-click on “Parallels Service.app” -> Show Package Contents

Go to /Contents/PlugIns/

Right-click on “Parallels Network Start.app” -> Show Package More >

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Using Mac (or Linux) in a Windows dominated workplace

July 4, 2010

by Ken Ng

It’s a (sad) fact that most corporate workplace are still using Windows as the only supported platform for work. It’s not that I’ve anything against Windows. Don’t get me wrong here. Instead, I personally think that if I choose to run Mac and Linux OS, so be it. Why should one get shun off just because the corporate standards and softwares only support Windows.

Now, what would your options be?

One is obviously to setup a dual-boot environment More >

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Tip: Calibrating the MacBook and iPhone battery to maximize it’s life

July 1, 2010

by Ken Ng

Everyone knows that the battery on the new MacBooks and iPhone are built-in and non-replaceable. Therefore, it’s extra important to try and maintain the battery to maximize its lifetime.

And since both the MacBooks and iPhones uses a lithium-based battery, there are a few golden rules on how we can keep the batteries in tip-top conditions.

Firstly, lithium-based batteries likes their electrons to keep moving. That way, the battery stays ‘fresh’ More >

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Tip: Enabling ‘native’ NTFS read and write support on Snow Leopard, at your own risk

June 21, 2010

by Ken Ng

If you’re use both Mac and Windows workstations, then you’d probably also have a bunch of removable hard disks that’s formatted as NTFS laying around. And you’d also obviously know that OS X does read from an NTFS partition. The trouble is, you don’t get NTFS write by default.

In Snow Leopard, both read and write capability is apparently available natively. The reason why it’s not officially available, it seems, is due to licensing issues More >

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