A car full of people dressed as zombies crashed in Portland, Ore., Friday night, leading to a bit of confusion by rescue workers over just how badly the occupants were (or were not) injured: “Sgt. Greg Stewart said people who witnessed the crash initially thought the victims’ injuries were much more serious, because of the […]
VMWare Fusion 3.1 has been released, as a free update to all existing v3.xx owners… VMWare is stating: 35% better end-to-end application performance (Measured with WorldBench 6) Better graphics support, with up to 5x 3D graphics performance. (Hardware Accelerated OpenGL 2.1 support) And More… See VMWare Fusion v3.1 for more details…
Steam for the Mac is now live…. There’s some hickups, mainly the servers seem to be overloaded at this point… Â But a long list of currently available games is also below, with Valve promising new games “highlighting an area of Steam functionality” every Wednesday. The following games are all Steam Play releases, meaning that you […]
Goody! Â A new VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available!!! Â Why am I excited? Â Well, I prefer Parallels, but for some reason Parallels doesn’t work on my Mac Pro. Â It complains that the hard drive is unavailable, and can’t be found.. Â Yet, if I make any configuration changes, it now magically works, until I reboot the […]
Well, the police will be busy now…. In Rochester, Ny… Starting Monday, all homes must have working carbon monoxide detectors in them. CO is the gas is known as the silent killer, as it has no color or smell. The new law requires that a detector be installed on the lowest floor that has bedrooms. Carbon monoxide detectors […]
VVMware has released an update to Fusion Desktop v3.0. v3.01 is now available, the highlights of the changes are: Improved 3D & Video Performance: Improved WDDM driver and 3D backend improvements speed up some applications and tests up to 80% on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala): Full support for Ubuntu 9.10 […]
Ars Technica’s Jon Stokes discusses what he has learned about AMD’s new “Fusion” CPU / GPU designs… My immediate reaction on hearing Moore describe this was that AMD was planning to pursue the Larrabee route, and replace the GPU with a pool of small x86 cores. Obviously, you have to expose this ‘GPU’ hardware (in […]
I am eagerly awaiting my copy of Fusion 3….. I have used both Parallels and Fusion both… And while I prefer Parallels slightly, Parallels (for some reason), will not access my Boot Camp drive, without requiring me to constantly reconfigure the virtual machine…. So I switched to Fusion, and I’m pretty darn happy… Here’s to […]