Talking Turkish Names

There is no painless way to put it: You need Windows functionality on your Mac from time to time however infrequently that might be. The excuse could be the Thai-language web site you are building for the Asian multinational. Could be that you are changing Blackberry handsets so you need to transfer data. Bootcamp and Parallels do nice work together. Bootcamp needs restarting your machine. Parallels is as much pain in the rear side as it takes ages to load on my MacBook Pro. I’ve been testing CrossOver from CodeWeavers and I like it merely as an alternative. Now I don’t need to get the gigantic wheels of Parallels rolling just to look at a web site using IE6; CrossOver does that kind of Windows pretty well. It did not allow me to install BlackBerry Deskop Manager though. Said something like ‘Unsupported Application’. That’s a good summary of CrossOver actually: It’s built to run major apps like IE6 and Microsoft Office smoothly. They make few promises for the rest. I like it. Give it a try.