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TidBITS#826/17-Apr-06

We follow up last week’s articles about Boot Camp and virtualization with a collection of hard-won tips that will help you experiment with Windows XP safely and efficiently. Also this week, Matt Neuburg reviews the NovaMind mind-mapping application, and Adam extracts useful lessons from a week of hardware troubles. In the news, Apple released Aperture 1.1 and Apple Remote Desktop 3, and since TidBITS marks its 16th anniversary this week, we’re taking off for vacation. Look for our next issue 01-May-06!

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TidBITS 16th Anniversary Vacation

TidBITS 16th Anniversary Vacation -- This week marks the 16th anniversary of TidBITS, which we're celebrating with a West Coast vacation that will also feature a dinner with the Seattle-based members of the staff, along with a visit to our Xserve at digital.forest to install Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server

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A Bad Week for Hardware

By the time you read this, Tonya and Tristan and I will be on a well-deserved vacation trip to see family and friends in California, Oregon, and Washington (so we won't be reading much email for the next week)

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Windows Tips and Tricks for Mac Users

It has been possible to run Windows in virtual machines on Macs for many years. However, with the recent switch to Intel chips and the beta releases of Apple's Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation for Mac OS X, interest among Mac users in running Windows has expanded significantly

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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/17-Apr-06

The first link for each thread description points to the traditional TidBITS Talk interface; the second link points to the same discussion on our Web Crossing server, which provides a different look and which may be faster. Comments on: WinOnMac Smackdown -- Last week's article about Boot Camp and Windows virtualization brings up questions of separate hard disk partitions and hardware virtualization