Tech Thought » Windows http://blog.evandavey.com Tech tips, hints, and general musings. PHP, Perl, Mysql, Javascript, AJAX, JSON, Linux, Mac OSX Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:56:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Testing Different IE Versions in the Same Window: IETester http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/06/testing-different-ie-versions-in-the-same-window-ietester.html http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/06/testing-different-ie-versions-in-the-same-window-ietester.html#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:08:15 +0000 Ev http://blog.evandavey.com/?p=144 Finally, a solution to every designer/developer nightmare – developing for different versions of IE.  DebugBar provides you with the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as your own version of IE in the same process!

Check it out at here!

]]> http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/06/testing-different-ie-versions-in-the-same-window-ietester.html/feed 0 How To: Access Windows from OS X (Remote Desktop for Mac) http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/04/how-to-access-windows-from-os-x-remote-desktop-for-mac.html http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/04/how-to-access-windows-from-os-x-remote-desktop-for-mac.html#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:07:47 +0000 Ev http://blog.evandavey.com/?p=79 Accessing Windows machines from your Mac can be really important.  It provides you the ability to quickly access Microsoft products and functions without the need for virtualisation.

Microsoft Confusion
Microsoft provides a tool called Remote Desktop Client for Mac which provides this functionality.  Unfortunately, this is still in beta and the current version has expired – with Microsoft promising a new version in May. This delay has caused much confusion in the Mac community, and personally I’ve found the tool to be quite buggy (yes I know its in beta).

CoRD to the Rescue
Thankfully, the open source project CoRD provides much the same functionality, including file and printer sharing between computers, and personally I think it has a far better user interface.  The bookmark bar on the side is much more like other Mac Applications I use (CyberDuck for instance), and in general is much more Mac like:

Personally, I’d forget the Microsoft Beta for now and download CoRD today!

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Here’s hoping that Mac OS X gets more support in the near future. If you haven’t already, have a look at SpanningSync which is currently the only way to do this on the Mac. Its good value if you use both iCal and Google Calendars, however I’d prefer the same kind of support from Google that our Window’s friends now have!

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