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.

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.

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.

Keep your MacBook alive with an SSD upgrade

If you really want a fast and responsive machine, instead of buying a new system, consider upgrading with an SSD storage. You will be surprise how responsive your MacBook can be just by using an SSD!

How to get your own email domain name with Gmail

Ever wanted to get your own domain name for your email address? What if I say that's really a simple process and you can get the email service for FREE! Yes, you just need to register your domain name for a nominal fee of less than US$10 per year and thanks to Google Apps, you can get all this done within a single day!

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.

Posts tagged apple

Fixing the OS X Lion bluetooth pairing after sleep issue

August 17, 2011

by Ken Ng

Upgrading to Lion on my MacBook Pro was great. It was perhaps the easiest OS upgrade I’ve ever done thus far. While I generally like how it is, there are a few nagging issues with Lion that just irritated the heck out of me.

One of it is that when my MacBook wakes up from sleep mode, my bluetooth mouse would never get paired again without the need to turn the MacBook’s bluetooth module off and on. This was never the case with Snow Leopard! All More >

Fix: iTunes was unable to load dataclass information error

March 14, 2011

by Ken Ng

I recently installed XCode 4 off the Mac App Store. Once that was done, i found that iTunes started throwing me the “iTunes was unable to load dataclass information from Sync Services” error every time I try to plug in the iPad and iPhone to sync via iTunes.

Darn! Looks like the Xcode 4 install screwed up iTunes in some way.

Searching the error on the Internet pointed me to a fix posted in Apple’s support site. It’s basically a guide to remove More >

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iOS 4.3 “The required file cannot be found.” Sync Error

March 11, 2011

by Ken Ng

By now, most of you iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch folks would probably already be on iOS 4.3. But there’s one thing that might have bugged you a whole lot. If you happened to sync a huge load of photos via iTunes to your iDevice, chances are, you’d notice that the photos may not fit in the available storage anymore.

Worse still, you may even get the “The required file cannot be found.” error and not able to sync the photos at all!

It seems that More >

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

January 5, 2011

by Ken Ng

If you’re looking to get a new PC or notebook, chances are, you’ll be asking the question above. So, should you be getting a Mac or Windows machine? Well, in my humble opinion, the answer is pretty simple. If you are willing to fork out a little more (to get more too of course), then go for the Mac option as I had.

Sure, like I mentioned, the Mac option will be a little bit more expensive when compared with the ‘equivalent’ Windows option from More >

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Official iOS 4.2 update for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch out now!

November 23, 2010

by Ken Ng

Yes. I know this is a little late to, but hey I was busy

Anyways, if you have read my blog recently and did follow what I did, you’d most likely already have your iPhone or iPad updated to iOS 4.2.1 GM. Technically speaking, it’s the same build of the latest official release of iOS 4.2 via iTunes today.

However, if you’re using an iPhone 3GS, you’d probably notice that the you’d still get a notification for an update via iTunes. This means More >

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5 reasons to update the iPhone to iOS 4.2 GM

November 17, 2010

by Ken Ng

I’m sure you are aware of the latest news around the iOS 4.2. Currently on GM release to the developers, it’s still being delayed from release to the public.

Whatever the real reason for the delay might be, it seems that the generally believed idea is that there was a WiFi bug that was discovered on the iOS 4.2 firmware for the iPad which has since saw a second release of the GM candidate which I’ve tested out to work perfectly here in my More >

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Updating your iPad to iOS 4.2 now, GM2 that is

November 15, 2010

by Ken Ng

Can’t wait for the official release of iOS 4.2 for the iPad? Well, if you are daring enough to take the risk of installing non-official firmwares, then you can get it today!

I’m sure you’re aware that the GM (Gold Master) candidate for iOS 4.2 has been out since last week. But if you might also be vary that there were some bugs in the GM release, specifically for the iPad on some issues with the WiFi. But now that the build 2 of the iPad’s iOS More >

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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 >