City Inn UK hotels offer iMacs in every room

product-20in.jpgUK hotel chain the City Inn Group has opened a new frontier in the hotelier industry, putting an iMac inside every room of its hotels in Manchester and London.

Hotel guestrooms are equipped with an iMac (including access to iLife, high speed internet access, a full suite of Office software, and the ability to video conference using the in-built iSight camera). Each iMac also functions as a TV, radio, DVD and CD player, providing guests with the ultimate, integrated entertainment solution.

Further information can be found @ Macworld UK Online Magazine.

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Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX

box_1.jpgThe killer app for Mac is now even better than ever!

Run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. With Parallels’ award-winning virtualization technology, you can run Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. You can even drag-and-drop files between desktops!

Leading the way with our trademark innovation, Parallels Desktop 3.0 comes packed with 50+ new features and enhancements, including Snapshots, 3D graphics, and the new Parallels-only SmartSelect.

New features in Parallels 3.0

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MarsEdit: Helping the Personal Publishing Revolution

Applications are solutions.

At the very core, the entire point of developing an application is to solve a problem; inasmuch as a program fills a need, it succeeds.

Furthermore, if an application can not only solve a problem, but help the user enjoy the process, it succeeds even more. And often, the most popular applications of all are those which solve problems that didn’t necessarily need to be solved in the first place. These apps provide a solution that is so enjoyable and makes so much sense to the user the app becomes a necessity. And this is where the desktop publisher, MarsEdit, takes off…

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