The days of virtual machines may be coming to an end with Macs because there are much better solutions available. Mac users can use Boot Camp if they want to run Windows directly on their machine or they can download the CrossOver Mac Beta which will let them directly run their Windows programs in the Mac OS X.

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We have another addition for the registered users of our site. It is difficult to keep track of comments especially when they are from posts that were weeks ago. That's why for the last few hours (hence the light posting) I have set it up so that you can keep track of comments you have not read yet.

Simply go to your management screen and it will also show

Microsoft has released Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 and is just begging to be downloaded. If you are running Windows XP SP2 then you are able to download the new version.

Here are the things that are new according to their list of changes:

• Fixes have been made for issues that occurred in the first beta release of Windows Media
  Continue reading Download Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2

Some of you may have decided to fork out the $20 to upgrade your Google Earth to the Plus edition. The key feature of the Plus edition is the GPS support that it has...which may soon be even more useful.

Garett Rogers from Googling Google noticed that Google registered three new domains on Monday. What are they?

• googleimagetagger.com
• googleimagetagger.net
• googleimagetagger.org

From

I have been waiting for Microsoft to release the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh because it has already been a few months since the last release of Beta 2. I have also seen a lot of really cool features, such as the auto-hiding ribbon, that is supposed to be in the upcoming release.

Bink.nu is saying that the Technical Refresh should be released

I have now put together a portable version of the Beta 2 to make it a little easier to try. All you have to do is download the Firefox Portable file. Then you unzip the file and browse for the file FirefoxPortable.exe. Just execute that file and you will be running Firefox 2 Beta 2! The profile is kept with the FirefoxPortable folder

Mozilla has placed the files for Firefox 2 Beta 2 on their FTP. The release notes page is currently up but the download links that they have do not work. Here are the direct links for the downloads of the English versions:

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac

I'm working on putting the portable version together right now and it should be up in a