Neatly Sliced

Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac now supports 3D rendering! What does that mean? Now you can utilize:

• Video editing/rendering software
• Games requiring 3D rendering (read: most games)
• OpenGL
• DirectX
• Various standard applications as AutoCAD

This isn’t even touching any of the other features included with Parallels 3.0.

Previously, I would only use Parallels for front end web development or for the occasional Windows Media Player use. For any hardcore work or gaming, I would revert to my wintel machine. Now, I can stay with the comfort of my MacBook. There’s no better time to switch to a Mac. View video shorts featuring Parallels at the Parallels blog.

Version 3.0 is not a free update. You can purchase the upgrade or buy new via any reseller. I highly recommend all to learn more about Parallels 3.0, purchase the full version, and/or buy the upgrade; I view this upgrade as 100% worth the $50 pricetag. My credit card, please…

Our poor ‘aina, changing to worthless land: Is this the world’s most polluted river?

I have never seen anything like it. If we strive for sustainability now, we stop contributing to this type of damage to the planet.

Wiimbledon is the coolest thing since sliced watermelon: a bona fide tennis tournament, Nintendo Wii style.

The tournament will be held in Brooklyn, Saturday, June 23, from noon to 5pm. I would go if it were not for the travel and plane tickets and other rigmarole, not to mention the fact that I always lose in the training exercises.

CSS Off kicked off yesterday and finished today at noon. It was fun to build and pretty straightforward.

I could have made an elastic layout and so on and so forth, but I opted for sleep over perfection. I don’t expect to win by any means, but it was an interesting exercise in my front end dev. There’s always room to improve, but one must draw the line at some point.

View my CSS Off entry. Please note that I am not accustomed to slicing my own images, and I lack PhotoShop on my machine, so colors were approximations derived from the combined efforts of Colorzilla and the supplied JPG image as viewed in Firefox.

Leave thoughts/comments/improvements in the comments, if you wish.