I posted before about how I've installed Parallels on Winnowill so that I can run Windows as a virtual machine within OS X. Well, it turns out that Parallels has something called "Coherence Mode". I didn't know what this was, so I experimentally activated it.
My VM window vanished completely, and suddenly I had the OS X Dock over on the left and the Windows taskbar down at the bottom of my screen. In this mode I can access both at the very same time and have a Windows app running side by side with an OS X one.
This is strange and weird and really kind of cool, even if it does turn my computer into a weird amalgamated Frankendesktop and makes me keep thinking of the Invader Zim episode when Zim's captured by the stupidest aliens in the universe:
"You shouldn't have fused him! You've made him twice as powerful--twice as deadly!"
My VM window vanished completely, and suddenly I had the OS X Dock over on the left and the Windows taskbar down at the bottom of my screen. In this mode I can access both at the very same time and have a Windows app running side by side with an OS X one.
This is strange and weird and really kind of cool, even if it does turn my computer into a weird amalgamated Frankendesktop and makes me keep thinking of the Invader Zim episode when Zim's captured by the stupidest aliens in the universe:
"You shouldn't have fused him! You've made him twice as powerful--twice as deadly!"
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