John Welch

Greetings, Apple users. Here’s a small collection of items for your perusal: iPhone Craziness In all the hype about the iPhone, I find some of the ideas floated by various Web sites quite curious, if not actually ridiculous. The most amusing of all is the concept of the iPhone as a deliberate deception. Folks, Apple […]

On December first, Parallelsreleased a beta of the next update to their Parallels Desktop for Mac product, build 3036. Promised as a free update, this is not just a minor collection of bug fixes and a new feature or two. The listed updates for this version number almost twenty, and they run the gamut from […]

If you read almost any publication that talks about Apple from an IT point of view, you’ll read a lot about Parallels Desktop for Mac, from Parallels. People talk about the kind of load Parallels puts on a system, or installing it, or whether it makes it easy to set up virtual machines, etc. But […]

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with Parallels Desktop for Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro, and I have to say, I’m impressed. First, note that I said “working with” instead of my usual verb for testing software, “playing with.” That’s a deliberate choice, because I’ve been getting work done with Parallels […]

Today, I’d like to talk about CVS on the Mac OS X server, and why I prefer Mac OS X Server as a CVS server in a heterogeneous environment, or at least mine. First, yes, I know, Subversion is an excellent source code management system as well, and the fact that I don’t mention it […]

Apple recently released an update to Aperture, bringing it to version 1.5. Now, while Aperture itself is of little impact in the enterprise, this paragraph in the “What’s New” section is of interest: Take advantage of enhanced AppleScript and Automator support: operate on image selections (in addition to projects and albums); filter for the “pick” […]

Now, I know that in the past I’ve talked about how I’d like to see Apple come out with a more IT-focused conference than the WWDC, even with its excellent Enterprise IT track. However, please don’t take that to mean that tracks at Macworld and the WWDC are your only options here. There’s a third […]

So last column, we looked at the new hardware announcements and some of the announced new features in Leopard from the WWDC. This time, we’ll look at the other “half” of Leopard, Leopard Server. While Server didn’t get any face time during the Keynote, it was a major part of the conference, and Apple has […]

So the 2006 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference is complete, and contrary to some reports from the less clueful, it was not a dud, nor a disappointment. The three big things to come out of the WWDC, at least publicly, were the Mac Pro Towers, the Intel-based Xserves, and the next iteration of the Mac OS, […]

With the Apple Worldwide Developers Conferenceless than two weeks away, and this being the column before it, I thought it worth the time to talk about why I’m going, and why anyone running a network with Macs on it should go. First, yes, I agree (and I’ve talked about before) the name “WWDC” is an […]