Tag: VIRTUAL

Cloud Girlfriend, despite what it sounds like, doesn't really have anything to do with cloud computing. Rather, it uses a cloud of women to pose as your girlfriend on Facebook, or your favorite social network of choice. The service is scheduled to launch 'soon,' and there's no indication of how much it will cost. With the tagline 'The easiest way to get a girlfriend is to already have one,' ...

There's already been talk of RIM using the Dalvik VM which powers Android in its upcoming OSes -- and as a result you may be able to run Android apps on your BlackBerry PlayBook. Now the Myriad Group has demonstrated their virtual machine wizardry with Alien Dalvik (built on its Dalvik Turbo remix) -- by making it run unmodified Android apps on a Nokia N900 under MeeGo. Myriad -- the group ...

IKEA, the lord of bland, cheap, spruce and spartan Scandinavian furniture, has released a toasting app just in time for New Year's Eve. Pick from the huge range of glasses and drinks, and enjoy a virtual toast! The app, which is called Skål!, or "Cheers!" in English, has a neat trick up its sleeve: it uses the rear-facing camera to create a backdrop for your virtual drink. Then, as you ...

There are two things I've always wanted to try, but never had the guts to actually do: cut my hair short and get a tattoo. I also want to bungee jump, but that's not something that computers can really help with, so let's stick to hair and tattoos... It's the permanence of it all. Sure, hair might grow back -- and you can remove tattoos with lasers -- but you're still looking at weeks or months ...

Windows 7's built-in virtualization tools let you do all kinds of useful things -- from multi-booting using virtual hard disks (VHDs), to mounting those same VHDs as local disks, to running older software that doesn't play well with OSes newer than XP. It would, however, be nice if certain tasks were a bit simpler. Fortunately there are some great, free tools which can help. Disk2vhd ...

So you've played Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and DJ Hero but you're left wanting more? "Where's my Polka Hero?" you ask? Well, we're not quite there yet, but thanks to developer William J. Farmer you can at least jam on the accordion using your PC or Mac and a plain old keyboard. Give the bellows a squeeze by tapping on the space bar and key your way to greatness! You're not just limited to ...

You thought the music to "It's a Small World" would drive you crazy? Try the careening refrains of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, a blacklight-ridden motorized kiddie ride at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. At least, you could try it until 1998, when the Mouse saw fit to toss the toad and replace him with a cute, cuddly, one-crayon-short-of-a-sharpener bear named Pooh. Enter obsessive compulsive ...

Virtual drive software isn't new, but with the recent surge of ultra portable notebooks that do not have built in optical drives this is a good time to go over one of the free emulation software out there, Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive. For those that may not know, a virtual drive emulates a physical drive, in this case an optical drive. This way you can mount a disc image and use it as if a ...

If it weren't for Parallels Desktop, the virtualization product for Intel Macs that lets you run Windows alongside Mac OS X, many working Mac professionals would be forced to carry two laptops. So it's good news that the Mac's most popular method of running Windows within OS X (the other, less effective, method is VMWare) recently sprouted a few really useful enhancements: Parallels' ...

For those of you who have been holding out on Parallels, or haven't yet tried Boot Camp, VMware has decided to give you your Christmas gift a few days early and release the public beta of VMware Fusion. "What is this Fusion you speak of?" I hear you asking. It's VMware's foray into the Mac virtualization market, allowing you to run Windows, Linux, and likely most other x86 based OSes, along side ...

Parallels Desktop, in my humble opinion, is a killer virtualization app that allows you to run virtually any OS, and even multiple OSes, in their own environments within Mac OS X. We've been following Parallels Desktop's development pretty closely over on TUAW, and today a new beta has been released with some rocking new features, including: Booting a Boot Camp Windows XP installation, ...

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 takes advantage of new hardware virtualization technologies present in Intel and AMD systems. The idea is to use Virtual PC 2007 to run legacy applications, including operating systems in it, as it has always been with Virtual PC. This release has one slight difference, Vista now runs as either host or guest operating system in this latest version. The beta is available ...

AMD has put together one of the most rich and engaging Internet presentations I have ever seen. Built in Flash, this "virtual experience" as they call it is quite impressive. AMD's virtual trade show is a great idea and makes you want to explore. Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, IBM, and others are among the booths at this "event" where you can watch keynotes, presentations, and even a virtual parody ...

Google has teamed up with the United Nations Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, and the National Park Service to bring a new showcase of Google Earth multimedia overlays. The informative content from the premium content providers can be activated by clicking the Featured Content checkbox in the sidebar on the Google Earth application. Icons will then be displayed across the earth for the ...

If you're building a website without a Mac on hand, but need to test how it performs in Apple's Safari web browser, a mere screenshot of how it renders might not be enough. Since a Mac isn't lying around for hands-on testing, what's a web designer to do? Why, install VirtualSafari on your own server, of course. VirtualSafari is a web-based front end to WebKit, the open source rendering engine ...