Fusion giving Parallels a run for its money

sho — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:47:04 +0000

I got a chance to read up a little about VMware’s Fusion, which as you probably have guessed is a virtualization product from VMware that seamlessly unites Mac OS X with Windows. Yes, there’s bootcamp, but that’s a boot-to-windows-only solution. Yes, there’s Parallels, which I have, but have not upgraded yet to the tune of $49.99.

I guess you could say that Fusion and Parallels have fairly comparable features such as games/3D support, wine-like features, and virtual machine support. Having had difficulties installing Ubuntu as a virtual machine in Parallels in the past, I’d venture to say that seeing Ubuntu in one of Fusion’s screenshots is encouraging. Plus, they say they support 60 OSs including linux and BSD. I’ll take their word for it being VMware is one of the pioneers in the world of virtualization. Both retail for $79.99 and for a limited time, $59.99 for Fusion. Thus, if I were to spend on my next virtualization for my mac, I think I’d spend the extra ten bucks to try Fusion.

Simple video rotation for Mac users

sho — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:02:47 +0000

Users of cameras, whether it be for video or plain photograph, will always have the need to edit their digital mediums. As long as nature defines a top and bottom orientation of any perspective, we will always manage to take a shot that defies this default. For digital pictures, the correction is easy nowadays. Just rotate your picture with your favorite or more commonly, default application. With a click and a 90 degree turn clockwise or counter-clockwise, this task is now second nature. However, for an old guy like me, there was never a simple way of doing the same with video clips that my digital camera captured. That is, until I discovered a handy application called MPEG Streamclip, which for the Mac, is a true blessing (it’s also free!).

Once installed, I just dragged my video clips from iPhoto directly on top of MPEG Streamclip 1.8 and then I choose to Export to QuickTime from the File menu (or Command E) and then select my choice under “Rotate”. Once I’m satisfied, I click the Make Movie button and once the conversion is done, I have my rotation-corrected video clip ready to share. All in all, I recommend this little app since it’s a concise solution which is not too hard to learn.

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