New to Parallels Desktop? Can you use a VM on an external drive?
This post is part of a series to assist new users of Parallels Desktop. Virtual machines for Parallels Desktop on your Mac can be pretty large. Even a basic install of Windows 10 with Office for...
How to Use Parallels Desktop with Sidecar: Windows on iPad
Since the advent of macOS Catalina, Apple users can use their iPad as a second computer screen for their Mac with the feature sidecar. This opens up completely new application areas and makes mobile computing flexible...
How to Use Hyper-V Virtualization on Mac Computers
Virtualization plays a major role in many businesses, though this may not always be immediately apparent to Mac users. Increasingly, the applications they work with will not be running on tangible hardware but rather on...
With macOS Catalina, Parallels Desktop for Mac users have even more powerful ways to run Windows, Linux and other OSes on Mac. Sidecar There are two new features brought to Parallels Desktop with Sidecar. First, you can now...
How to download a YouTube Video with Parallels Toolbox: A step-by-step guide
There are at least 800 million videos uploaded to YouTube, meaning there are millions of hours of videos available for viewing. Sometimes you might wish to have one of these videos...
It can be quite handy to keep your Mac awake and avoid your display from dimming or going to sleep. According to Apple® support pages, you can set your Mac to go to sleep after a specified duration of activity or to wake up at a specific time. You can also use a...
How to Clear Cache and Cookies on a Mac (9.73 GB Gone!)
It’s no secret that you can free up a lot of space on a Mac® hard drive simply by clearing the cache. In fact, I managed to clear an enormous 9.73 GB of cache and cookies on my Mac just before I wrote this post. The best...