I have reviewed Crossover before and think it it a pretty good application with a number of benefits, certainly enough to warrant getting your hands on a FREE copy today!!!
We are giving away all of our software for free on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008. This is a fully working, fully supported copy of either CrossOver Mac Professional, or CrossOver Linux Professional. No hooks, tricks, timebombs, or gimmicks: it’s the real deal.
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Looks like they have had a good response and got dugg!!! Main web site is down but you can still get the license and they are extending the activation period to 48 hours.
Thanks for the heads up on this Chris.
For anyone who might be interested, I’ve just come across a post which paints in the background to this unusual offer…
You are welcome. Think they are still struggling as the servers keep timing out when I try and access the registration page!!
I just tried a few minutes ago and got through first time. Though, to be fair, it was a bit sluggish.
The irony is that I might never use this! At least they haven’t lost a cash sale they would have otherwise got. At work I had a go with, I guess it was v6, when it came out a year or two back and wasn’t wildly enthused about it. Still, I’ll keep this on standby, just in case…
The further irony is that I upgraded my copy of VMware Fusion from v1 to v2 last night and finally installed XP Pro. I’d bought Fusion just under a year ago, but had never used it.
Managed to snag a copy of both the normal and games editions. Haven’t tried them yet, but will soon.
I was under the impression that the “normal” one was the Pro version – which includes the functionality of the games edition. Whereas, I guess, the “games” edition lacked something from the Pro edition. Confusing… 😕
I already had a old review copy on the Mac Pro but snagged a couple of copies for the MBP and iMac.
I am not sure that I will use it. It is a cool app, and pretty useful for quickly opening up IE for example, but I am not exactly a big user of vMware Fusion either i.e. I don’t use Windows at all these days.
I think you have it right Gary …….. the games are included, but again ‘so what’ I have a Wii and a PS2 gathering dust and a PSP that thinks it has been neglected.
The only reason I finally began work with VWware Fusion is that I’m going to try out the CHDK we spoke about a while back. I recently discovered that, while it’s not been properly released for the G9 yet, people on the forums are talking about using it to varying degrees of success. I haven’t got there yet, but hope to get it running shortly.
I know what you mean about neglected gaming consoles. I don’t think my PS/2 has been plugged in for at least two years. Periodically, I think I really want to get a Wii but, for various reasons, I’ve never taken the plunge yet.
I too snagged both copies when they came out. It seems that know matter how hard I try, I just can’t get either of them to work properly. Not that I really have anything that I need to run on Windows. It’s my son that could use it, which is the rub, so-to-speak.
He would like to run some Windows games on his Mac, (Fallout 3 comes to mind,) but it’s a Mac mini. Some of those games do not work very well because of the built in graphics processor of the mini. So, basically, it’s never easy!
Don’t think anyone said kids were ever meant to be easy 🙂
@gary …… how did it go with CHDK?
CHDK – a brief impression… I didn’t spend too long playing with it – and never got as far as going outside with it. I was initially trying it on my Ixus 40, which had been listed as supported for some time. I have to be honest, I didn’t really like it. Part of that probably came from the experience of using the older, slower camera, with the smaller display. But one thing that definitely seemed to be an issue was the apparent heavily increased battery drain. It seemed that when I was using the camera with a 1GB card with the CHDK software on it, the battery was sucked dry awfully quickly. And this is actually mentioned in one of the FAQ type pages, so I’m not the only one to have experienced this. Frankly, I disagree with the explanation given, but I didn’t do any empirical testing to see if there was anything in it or not.
I had been planning to move my testing over on to my G9 after initial familiarisation on the Ixus, but in the end got side-tracked before getting that far. The G9 seems to be supported if you have one of several of the firmware versions that have been released with the camera – but not all of them.
NB CHDK doesn’t work – at least, not without some DOS type hacking – on cards bigger than 4GB. From memory, it’s something to do with sector size changing to an unsupported size as your card’s capacity expands. This meant that I was unable to get the CHDK software installed on the 8GB card I bought specially for the G9 back when I bought the camera. This was because I simply couldn’t mount the 8GB card on either the Mac desktop or the Windows desktop to install the CHDK software (primarily just a file copy) in the first place. This meant that I was going to be initially restricted to using the G9 with the 1GB card from the Ixus. As noted, I never got around to testing the G9, even with the 1GB card, in the end. I suspect that I might find it a bit more useable with the more powerful G9, though I don’t know if it would experience the same battery drain problem.
Undoubtedly, there has been a lot of very clever work put into the CHDK project so far. No question. If some of the extended functionality interests you and if you have a supported camera and a spare SD card that you can devote to initial tinkering – give it a shot. If you don’t like it, you just erase the card and power-cycle the camera to return it to it’s normal pre-CHDK state.
However, things have moved on a little in the four to five weeks that have passed since I was first looking at this. My main interest with using it on the G9 was going to be to give myself the ability to do “extended” exposure bracketing, for use with producing extended dynamic range (aka HDR) images. (Not the occasionally horribly stylised ones you see, that scream “I’m an HDR shot!!!!!!!”. Yeuch. No – it is possible to do HDR subtly and for the technique not to be obvious…) Canon, at last in the models I’ve used, only provide three-image bracketed sets – normal, under and over. I wanted to use CHDK to run a script which would let me produce five or even seven image bracketed sets. The better to carefully craft stunning HDR images… 🙂
But just today I was looking at the Lumix (Panasonic) G1 in my large local Jessops. Amongst other things, it has interchangeable lenses, a vari-angle LCD on the back (aka a “flippy-out display”), RAW images and – three/five/seven-image bracketed sets… Yummy! Here’s the review I read yesterday which began to make me think seriously about this little beauty.
Wow!!! By far the longest and best comment ever 🙂
I had a G9 for a while until I dropped it. Liked it, didn’t love it, as was too chunky. I think Mac has the Lumix and loves it, so that is what is tempting me again at the moment.
I thought I recalled reading comments from Mac – back in the early summer or thereabouts – about his Lumix. In which case it couldn’t be this particular model. The Lumix G1 only hit the shops about a month ago. It’s the first of a new breed of cameras – the Micro Four Thirds system.
I bought mine yesterday afternoon and the limited playing I had with it late last night has done nothing to make me regret my impulse purchase. (Phew!!) I’m planning to go off out with it for a wee while this afternoon…
It certainly isn’t that one ……. looks very cool indeed!
Nah, mine is a Leica D-LUX 3, which essentially like the Panasonic version. Certainly it is not the G1. I do love my Leica though. Much more than the G9. The quality of the pictures are pretty much the same, but the D-Lux is a lot smaller and lighter.
I would love to hear more about the G1 though.
@Mac – If you’re still interested, I’ve finally managed to post a write-up over at my own site.
Chris, if I’ve taken too much of a liberty in making this small plug, then I apologise. Please feel free to remove this comment. 🙂
Not a problem at all mt friend, always happy to have people link to things that thet think people will find useful.