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I've just listened to episode 6 of StackOverflow podcast, and I just wonder, is there a free and good enough implementation of Mac Spaces for Windows?
try Dexpo
from their website
With Dexpot you may have separate virtual desktops for different applications. One desktop might feature applications for graphic design, for example, and another might feature your business applications.
Switch between virtual desktops in order to keep track of your open windows. Using Dexpot, you'll considerably increase your workflow.
Try the Microsoft Sysinternals Desktops, it offers 4 virtual desktops.
No there isn't, at least not for XP. It's hard because xp wasn't designed with that in mind, while Mac and Linux handle it beautifully.
The best one for XP that I have found is VirtualWin, which just works by hiding windows. It's hacky, but at least it gets the main idea down. I think if you've got an accelerated desktop like vista, VDM might be worth a look. But since I don't have vista, I can't be sure.
Microsoft has a Virtual Desktop Manager PowerToy. Not nearly as good as the ones on Linux & OSX, though.
Dexpot is the best i've found for options and functionality, however the free version comes with some trashware in the installer, if you just install the pro trial and then tear down the free version installer with 7zip and copy the program files in to the program directory - it works like a champ however - No trashware.
Try not to break your computer doing this.
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Part of our business includes providing a (windows) desktop machine with a pile of Data Acquisition Cards and associated software all set up and working for our customers.
Right now, we package up all our software, dependencies, drivers, etc and a pile of bat scripts, and this is our "install tool". Our production staff run the scripts (in order), choosing options as required and they eventually get the machine configured and tested.
The process isn't great - it's a bit buggy and really should just be a lot easier.
It's occurred to me that there must be an installer technology out there that we can use to replace our bat scripting. Does anyone know of something we could use?
It should:
Be able to install multiple pieces of software (ie run their installers with all default options on).
Be able to have some scripting/customization ability, because we'd want to be able to recreate some of the things our .bat scripts do.
Preferably provide some UI - ie click through installations screens with options.
Thanks in advance!
In the end we have gone with Wix - Installshield looked great - but... in the end it was just calling a whole pile of custom build scripts.
Wix has a high learning curve, but is more like what we need.
There are many installers tools, and different people prefer different tools. You won't find the best one, because some tools fit for one tasks more than others, some expensive, some really bad and expensive and so on.
But in your case, I can recommend use Windows Installer technology and InstallShield tool for it, base on my experience. It has a lot of possibilities to create great and powerful installers. With help of Windows Installer and own InstallShield features.
Also all your requirements could be done with InstallShield.
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I have just purchased my new mac, which is the 27inch imac with 3.4ghz quad processor, 8gb of ram, 1tb hard drive and a AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1GB GDDR5 graphics card.
I was told this is the best machine, apart from the ram not being 16gb but I thought it was not needed, but I may be wrong.
Anyway I was wondering what software will compensate for what I already have on the pc.
I am a web designer and coder.
Also do you know if adobe allow you to use pc license on mac? the reason I ask is I have just purchase creative suite cs6 on pc and it has 3pc license. I have used it on just 1 machine, will it allow me to use it on mac?
If I'm not mistaken, the licenses are, in fact, OS specific. I ran across this problem recently (at home, I use a Mac, at work I use a PC) and couldn't get a proper install working. Alternatives? Well, it's not quite as shiny, but Gimp has gotten quite good recently. For any other software check out AlternativeTo. It's a pretty spiffy site for finding software not available on your platform (or in your price range).
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NEARLY FORGOT MY FAVORITE PIECE OF MAC SOFTWARE: TextWrangler! If you like your code editors slim, TextWrangler is for you. None of that tag closing crap, VERY solid built-in FTP, fully customizable code-coloring, low profile interface.
If adobe is available for mac i`m almost sure the license will count for the mac to. Why dont just try it? OR take a look at http://www.adobe.com/nl/support/
I guess not. But you can try to run Windows in Parallels/VmWare/VirtualBox on MAC and launch Adobe inside.
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I'm sure most of you heard of Microsoft Virtual Labs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff640662
You can connect remotely to msdn servers and practice development on vs2010,sql server 2008 R2..etc
Is there something like that in mac world with xcode? I want to practice on development with iphone and take online labs,I don't have a mac for now.
P.S: I think there isn't such a thing in mac world but just wanted to try my luck,hopefully someone might prove me wrong,I searched online but didn't find such a thing.
You can give http://virtualmacosx.com a try. They provide a full online instance of Mac OS X with the Xcode Development Environment pre-installed. It could be a good option for someone looking to experiment with Xcode before taking the plunge on a Mac.
http://www.macincloud.com/ Looks like another option, but I'm not sure how good they are. The Web site is pretty informative though.
The best site I have ever experienced for virtual machines is
Virtual machine
Follow the link and you can see amazing OS in that links
TO try above you need to pay. But it is for free.
Virtual mac os online free
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Can you host demos of open source apps online, similar to how http://php.opensourcecms.com/ does for CMSs? For example, could you host a demo of Open Office for people to try out online? Maybe by connecting to a server that has Windows 7 installed or some Windows 7 simulator. How would you do that if you could?
It would certainly be possible, using something like a combination of remote desktop and virtual servers, however I haven't seen any solution like that.
The main reason for that is of course that it would require a lot of hardware. While a web server can handle thousands of concurrent users, a server running virtual remote sessions would be able to handle something in the range of 10-20 concurrent users.
Being somewhere around 100 times more expensive than running web servers, one can easily see why there is little demand for such technology.
There are various ways in which the visual display and mouse interaction of a Windows app can appear on a user's machine while actually running remotely. Refer to—for instance—the RFB protocol which is used by VNC.
It even appears there are some efforts to embed such remote screens into browsers using Flash. I haven't tried it:
http://flashlight-vnc.sourceforge.net/
As #Guffa points out, this really won't scale very well. But at smaller scales it's important to be aware of: I'm a big advocate of using approaches like this when someone has a niche legacy intranet application written in something like Visual Basic that only a few people use. (Why rewrite something that already works in Ruby-on-Rails or whatever if only 10 people in the world will ever use it?)
At a meta-level, I think dropping users into an app they don't know how to use isn't always the best way of selling it. With pervasive Internet video I think there's a big potential for screencasts to explain and introduce software, or teach them features:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast
It shows people what's possible, is easy for them to pass around, and is a lot less of a development/administrative/security effort on your part.
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I am mostly interested in developing for windows (primary) and a mac.
I have a normal PC and a mac mini, and I want to be able to use a single keyboard, mouse and a monitor with both.
Which kvm software do you recommend?
I was looking for hardware kvms but I am using a 30" lcd which is only supported by 1 belkin kvm and people report it as not working.
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Synergy is a software based KVM. It might take you some time to get it set up, but once you do, you'll love it.
In your case, I think the best software solution is to physically connect the Mac to the monitor, and using Remote Desktop to connect to the PC. You'll have very little display lag and almost zero input lag, compared to VNC.
As an added benefit, you can resize your Remote Desktop window to sit side-by-side with a window on your Mac, so you won't lose context when switching between Mac & Windows.
The only downside is that you'll have to crawl under the desk and swap the DVI cable if the Windows machine fails to boot when something goes wrong. That said, at my office we have a test machine that we've been using exclusively via Remote Desktop/VNC for about 3 or 4 years.
Every machine I use is running in a VM. I connect to the Windows machines via Remote Desktop, and I connect to the Linux machines via the VMware Remote Console.
I use VMWare in spaces, but if I had two boxes like you had I'd use a remote desktop connection.
If what you want is to have one monitor for two machines, then you probably need to either use a hardware DVI switch, or use a VNC/Remote Deskop client to pop in to the other desktop when you need to get there.
Personally, I have a 3 monitor, two machine setup. My main box has 2 monitors, the mouse, and the keyboard. The other box has the third monitor. As mentioned above, I use Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse between machines. In general it works very well.
Keyboard switching hotkey is Scroll Lock twice then up arrow.