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VMWare has finally released the long-awaited new version of Fusion , came to 3.0, bringing many new features that finally make it one of the best virtualization software within the Mac

One of the biggest gaps I've always complained in Fusion was a lack in the ability to open files with a virtualized Windows application directly from Finderl (Ex: open an XLS file directly from the Finder and make it opened with Microsoft Excel 2007 virtualized ). This is in fact a file association, or associate extensions with a program of your choice.

Despite the efforts of VMWare, you still can not do this by default with Fusion, but with some little ingenuity you can not work around the problem.

1. Position the Finder on the folder where your Virtual Machine (Windows for instance);
2. Click with the right mouse button on VM (Virtual Machine) and select "Show Package Contents" (Show Package Contents);
3. At this point you open a new window is located inside the folder "Applications" in which there are installed applications in a Windows environment;
4. Open another Finder and navigate to the / Applications folder of Mac and create a new folder called (for example) "Windows Applications";
5. Copy into the applications (the Applications folder in the VM that you want to be indexed by Spotlight as native applications on Mac;
6. Select a file with the extension you want to associate an application to Windows right click and choose "Get Info"
7. Select the "Open With" and then "Other" (Open With - Other)
8. At this point, choose the application you want to associate the file extension. You can find it easily in Windows Applications folder that you created previously in step 4!
9. Give OK and click "Change All" ("Change All" . From now on it will open Fusion and its application when you open a file with the extension.

Now some screenshots to better follow the instructions:

Have fun and good virtualization at all!

It is a story passed very quietly ... we read here and there in some forums a few users who have tried and tested fact: Microsoft has finally opened POP3 and SMTP mail service Hotmail / Live.

Most likely the advent of Gmail and many other services with POP3 before, and then IMAP, open access their mail through a common email client, did reflect the Redmond.

What happens at this point? Just happens that if the situation were to remain so, do not make it necessary programs such as FreePOPs, MacFreePOPs and other services that allow to circumvent the problem of the "POP3 server closed."

We come to the operative with the steps needed to configure our beloved Mac Mail to get mail Hotmail / Live ...

Parameters POP3 (Inbox):
Account Information

• Description: Hotmail
• Email Address: tuonome@hotmail.com (or. It)
• Full Name: First Name Last Name
• Incoming server: pop3.live.com
• Username: tuonome@hotmail.com (or. It)
• Password: yourpassword

Advanced

• Port: 995
• SSL: active
• Authentication: Password

Parameters SMTP (outgoing mail):
Account Information:

• Description: Hotmail
• Server: smtp.live.com

Advanced

• Use default port: 25
• SSL: active
• Authentication: Password
• Username: tuonome@hotmail.com (or. It)
• Password: yourpassword

For convenience you can also carry some screenshots examples ...

I hope this tip will be useful to someone!

Finally after a long time I was able to see and also I personally use Vista, the new operating system from Microsoft . My father came home with a new laptop, specifically a Dell Inspiron 1501 , a low-end laptop from the price from 499 €!

Features of "relief" of the laptop:

• MK-36 ™ processor with AMD Turion ™ 64 mobile technology;
• 896MB of RAM (do not know how really, but it says Vista);
• 120GB HD;
• ATI Radeon ® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory (integrated up to 512 system memory);
• DVD + /-RW Double Layer.

Operating system pre-installed: Vista Home Basic.

As can be seen it is not one of the better performing computer on the market, rather ... is a portable "low end", at low cost.

Impressions of use:
The operating system is relatively slow to "boot", or to load and present a graphical interface to the user, until it is kindly asked for the password of the user you want to access the system.

Once inside the loading Sidebar Gadgets greatly lengthens the waiting time before you can actually work with the computer (something like 30-40 seconds of waiting to login has been made).

The re-style icons is really pretty, is one of the first things I was pleasantly surprised ... the interface is completely new (I mean compared to XP and earlier versions of Windows) and finally you can see the transparencies used by both MacOSX and WM various Linux ( Gnome and KDE in particular) and windows with decent edge!
In fact surpass in beauty icons (in my humble opinion - imho) my beloved little icons of osx or ubuntu (but could also be just the novelty effect).

The rest ... I open Roxio CD / DVD Creator Vista pre-installed and absolutely does not want to get it started. On the tenth attempt, mysteriously decides to run, after about 5 reboots, "hopeful".

For each installation / removal of a program or management of "sensible things the system" kicks in a screen very worrying and alarming that asks for confirmation on what we're doing ... in the beginning it is gratifying to know that there is a control, then it becomes so boring because it ALWAYS asks.

After about 30 minutes of use ... install several updates that the update tool (thank God finally is no longer tied to Internet Explorer and Windows Update on the Microsoft site) tells me and reboot ...
Install a couple of programs and restart ...
Off control that annoys me constantly with dramatic messages like "BUT YOU ARE quite sure?" And asks me to restart ...
The reactivated for security and re-asks me to restart!

At home Microsoft are obviously loyal to reboot ... it's a thing that they bring with them the good Windows 95: REBOOT NOW!

They spend about 10 minutes of normal use (look at the items in the control panel) and then crashes Explorer ... everything. What should I do I point?
Yes exact: RESTART again.

Well, after about an hour I will have 7 installed programs, made some updates and rebooted 7-8 times. Productivity? Nothing more.

Apart from these "glitches" you can see that the system is sufficiently stable even if it is not very responsive and bright. Surely this will be due by the computer as its "powerful", but I do not even seem so outdated that I could not manage without the frills of serenely interface Aero.

Yes, yes ... because the version of Vista Home Basic as we know it lacks Aero and therefore should be greatly alleviated. I can not imagine how quickly it would this handset with Aero.

The good news is that after an usage of a few hours (or days for some utonto) once you get used and eventually it remains "more comfortable" than Windows XP (always my humble opinion - imho).

Another positive note: the search immediately (shamelessly copied from spotlight) works well.

The gadgets fans ... definitely worth it. A part to be quite ugly are there: disturbing the right to occupy space. You can not just call them up if necessary as I am accustomed with Dashboard on OSX . I wonder why they should stay there ... useless to the world and especially to me, you. Mah!?

Now I look at my Powerbook with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and is known as agile despite having all the features of Vista ... indeed certainly more (and I only Exposé just to give an idea).
Then I move into the other room and watch the Pentium IV processor with 512MB of RAM and Ubuntu 7.04 installed and I see: Beryl I 1000 graphic effects (including tamarri like fire) with amazing speed; Beagle that works as a spotlight, a stable system that does not crash and that it is safe; rapidity in using the system.

Nothing to say ... Vista has definitely made progress compared to XP. But if Microsoft took a step one meter long, Ubuntu has made ​​it one of 100 meters and Leopard (apparently from WWDC recently submitted) 50 meters.

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