Parallels is beating the drums for their upcoming 3.0 release by sending previous owners an opportunity to upgrade for only $39.

Features being touted include these, featured in the email:

Like the UI integration with Coherence? You’ll love application and file integration with SmartSelect

Want to run the hottest games and graphics applications? Enjoy 3D with support for graphics software …

For sale: Macbook pro. 2 months old. Minor damage.

Why yes, that DOES appear to be discoloring due to some type of battery acid. Interesting.

Hole? What hole? Those are vents, for speed, dude!

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Of course this makes sense, but there are going to be those who think that DRM-free means you can freely exchange these files between machines and users.

Obviously that’s not logical or true though. But, just so you can see for yourself that your information is stored in each file, check out this hint from TUAW.

1. Launch Terminal. You’ll need …

Introducing, Microsoft Surface.

Click for bigger image!

Just kidding, of course. Just like everything else they do with cool and potentially useful technology, they will falter and fail. Assimilate and destroy, that’s the Redmond way.

Anyone remember WebTV?

By keeping ‘Surface’ under wraps and trying to maintain control of the project, …

MailBadger is a freeware plugin for mail.app that shows the number of messages in an account/category/mailbox.

I like this feature:
There are only four built-in shapes for badges right now (I’d like to add a couple more), but you can add your own too! Go crazy and add your friends’ faces to display the number of messages they’ve sent you. …

Microsoft has released a ‘beta’ version of their Office 2007 (PC) file conversion app, for Mac Office 2003 and X users.

Sadly though, it is hampered by being an incredibly poor gesture toward appeasing Mac office users. Some of the many things wrong with the release:
It only converts Word docX files - no Powerpoint or Excel formats are supported.
It ‘converts’ …

An oldie but a goodie that I recalled today while changing my iChat message.

By doing the following, you can make iChat display much more than the default iTunes message (Title - Artist). Check this out:

Type (or paste) this into Terminal (applications/utilities), making sure it is all on one line:

defaults write com.apple.iChatAgent iTunesMessageFormat -string ‘Currently listening to: …