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What I’m curious about is this:

Who are you people? What do you do? What kind of Mac do you use? Do you think I’m pretty? Did you catch the Who reference in the subject?

Leave a comment (no registration required!) and tell us (and your fellow readers) about yourself, your Mac(s) and what you’d like to see on BGM in the future.

I’ll start:

Although Parallels Desktop for Mac has been out for a year now, there is one lesser known and unused aspect that has been seriously overlooked.

Did you know that Parallels Transporter for Windows or Mac can install an ‘agent’ on any Windows or OS X machine, thus enabling you to then create a Parallels virtual machine from any Windows computer? Did you know it does it over the network and is so quick and easy that even a sales or marketing person could do it. (Subtle dig or clever innuendo? You decide!)

The following few pages detail how to migrate an existing Windows installation to a Parallels VM over the network. Join us on this fantastic journey, won’t you?

How many instances of Apple computers or products can you remember seeing in the movies? Off the top of my head, here are a few:

Independence Day - Saving the world with a PC virus!
Children of Men - Sporting a TAM!
Men in Black - Aw hell naw!
Constantine - No one saw the movie, much less the Mac…

I use a glorious 17″ Macbook Pro. How about YOU?

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While reading the Google Mac Blog, I noticed an interesting blurb about the ‘Apple Company Store’ which evidently sells Apple related swag such as (presumably) shirts, cups, t-shirts and so on.
Anyone been there? Anyone know what all is available and how much it costs? I could really go for a nice bag or official coffee mug…

Google Mac Blog - …

Apple released the long-awaited 10.4.9 update today. Run Software Update or visit Apple.com. Fixes and improvements include:

- RAW camera support
- Handling of large or malformed images that could cause crashes
- Image capture performance
- Mouse scrolling and keyboard shortcuts
- Font handling
- Playback quality, and bookmarks in DVD Player
- USB video conferencing cameras for use with iChat
- Bluetooth devices
- Browsing AFP …

Parallels is having a special for on their Desktop for Mac!

Buy one copy for a mere $59.99 ($20 off regular) or get 2 copies for $109.99 ($50 off). Perfect for a small business or household!

Buy one copy
Buy two copies

Looks like it works for multiple copies, so stock up!

We’ve put our bad-ass logo on some rather cool stuff, ready to wear/drink from/display at your whim. The main point of doing this is to get that name and logo out there, so there is a bare minimum markup on any of the BGM branded stuff you buy.

Some of this stuff worked out rather well, and I’ve already placed …

A really clever and well thought out site that has the basic information a new Mac user needs to adapt to their new life.

http://iboughtamac.com

The iSight, Apples ubiquitous personal camera has been around for well nigh half a decade now, and in it’s recent incarnations has been built-in to iMacs and the Macbook series. Rumors abound of a new Cinema Display with the iSight included also.

All of this begs the question though: who uses the iSight for actual video chat, other than 16 and 50 year olds exchanging images of their respectively pale or pasty appendages?

Video chat is still so quirky and slow that it serves no purpose for anything other than casual conversations. And since most internet providers offer an absurdly low upload speed, the lag and choppiness makes an iChat seem more like a stop action short film than a conversation.

That being said, there are still numerous ways you can put that iSight to use.

Security and surveillance
Webcam and Streaming video
Digital camera w/ effects
Inventory your stuff
Screen-saver
Time-Lapse Movies
Gaming
Scanning Documents
Teaching or tutorials
Making people nervous