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| |  | My experience with VMware vCenter Converter
The situation is easy. I need to move from one country to another and I have a few computers full of information but also software installed. Some software is really old and important.
The question was: How to travel with all those computers? the overweight would cost more than the computers themselves so I had to find a solution.
I just tested VMware vCenetr Converter and it works perfectly!
It is a free software that converts your computer into a virtual machine. That means that all what you have in your computer including the operating system and your custom configurations are stored. After you have the virtual machine you can use it from any other computer that runs:
- VMware Workstation,
- VMware GSX Server,
- VMware Player,
- VMware Server,
- VMware Fusion,
- VMware ESX (Managed by VMware VirtualCenter 2.x)
In my case my main system will be a Mac and it runs VMware Fusion. How I did it? - I bought a 2TB USB external hard disk. The price was around 130EUR
- I downloaded vCenter Converter and installed it on each machine I needed to transform into virtual machines.
- I used the software to convert each machine and saved the virtual machines on that external hard disk. I have 6 virtual machines there.
- I upgraded my VMware Fusion on my Mac
- I could run each virtual machine without problems. Exact like the original.
A few comments you should think about: - Microsoft Office asked me for activation again. That means that if you wish to keep your old computers working plus your virtual machines you will need licenses for Office and Windows. I'm sure that for any other software that requires licenses as well.
- The external disk was formatted for Mac. If not the virtual machines would not work well if they use a lot of space.
This thing is so powerful and is helping me to save so much money that I'm thinking to:
- Install some free OS to those real machines (Ubuntu for example)
- Donate them to someone that could really use them for good.
- Buy a big secondary screen for my mac and buy more RAM for it in order to work comfortably with more than one virtual machine at the same time.
- Save a lot of energy by using only one system instead of six.


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| |  | iCal can’t refresh the account
There are many persons having problems with iCal when it is connected to Exchange.
I experienced the same issue and now I solved it. But first it is important for you to know my configuration:
- I use a Mac with OSX 10.6.4
- I use Exchange Server in a hosted service, that means that I connect to my exchange accounts using Internet.
When setting the email account with Mail I got automatically the address www.outlook.com for the Internal and External server. But after a while I discovered that changed to some other address something like pod243100.outlook.com and when that happened all sort of problems happened with Mail, iCal and Contacts. I have noticed that when using OWA the URL address was different, I just needed to go to https://www.outlook.com, login and the URL was changed to https://pod51000.outlook.com/... so I replaced the address on Mail:
It works perfect. But the issue with iCal wasn't solved. I edited the account preferences using the same address I used for the servers in Mail and now it works perfectly.


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| |  | Apple TV and the future
So far Apple TV is a great product that is under used.
Actually I use it each day for podcasts, buying TV shows and movies from iTunes. I have no cable TV and that is the reason why my family selects what to see.
But I saw an interesting step on the new Mac Mini. now it includes a HDMI port and that means that you could connect it to a TV set. That might be saying something about the future of the Apple TV. Compare its ports:
Mac Mini lacks the Optical audio, component and audio ports, but in my case I don't use them. So here is my suggestion: - Apple can create an application called Apple TV. So you could transform your Mac Mini into an Apple TV and switch back to a computer whenever you wish.
- Start the business of Apps for Apple TV, where you could use your iPhones, IPod Touch and even iPad as controls..
Why that makes sense? - Having a wireless keyboard: would be great to check my FaceBook account, tweetdeck in a huge screen.
- Would be cool to have a multiscreen (iPod, iPhones, iPads) for gaming and a common view of the game on the TV. Just imagine some War game.
- Apple TV runs a version of Mac OSX, why not use that as a computer as well?
- The USB ports could help to add storage capacity.
- Selling Mac Mini as an entertainment or home based computer would be easier than selling Apple TV + Mac Mini.
What do you think? Maybe Steve Jobs will read this post ;)


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| |  | My take on the iPad
I bought an iPad just a few days ago and I had the chance to play with it for more than a few hours. To be honest it wasn't easy to get an opinion at first.
It is obvious that the machine is well designed, looks great and is easy to use. There are 2 things that jump out as soon as you turn the iPad on:
- Opening and closing applications is very fast.
- The battery lasts more than 10 hours of intense use.
Some of the applications that come with the iPad are really great. The improved Calendar and Contacts are worth of envy. I hope the same Mac OSX will include them in the near future. Of course others as YouTube, video and Maps use very well the bigger screen, but there is nothing in that space that would make a huge difference.
In contrast with many others I see that iBooks is not necessarily a Kindle killer. Of course looks great and the colors are important for some kind of publications. But the great amount of good books in "black and white" makes my Kindle a very light and effective reader. I would rename it and change a bit the business model: iMagazine, for digital versions of the most important magazine subscriptions.
Even most of the iPhone apps can work with the iPad, I wouldn't advise to download them. Why? because you see low resolution images. yes you can zoom in but that is not the real iPad thing. Better to wait for the new apps to be available. At this point I miss: Skype, FaceBook, The Scoop, Monopoly.
Is the iPad a PC or maybe a huge iPod touch? No. It is for sure other kind of device. I see it as a powerful PC or notebook companion; For example now I'm typing in front of my iMac typing this post, and my iPad is beside showing the Tweetdeck iPad app. That means that my iMac doesn't have to load that app. That is very cool, because if I move from my desk I can take the iPad with me.
Is the iPad a replacement for a Netbook? The short experience I have with Netbooks is that they are cool small machines that runs Windows or some kind of Linux OS. Very similar than the normal PCs but probably optimized for Internet usage. The iPad is not the same paradigm than a traditional PC OS. It is much simpler, asks less from the user and works perfect on the Web. I would never buy a Netbook instead of an iPad. In that case I would buy a Notebook.
Where is the revolution? Well I thing that the revolution lies in the following: - The OS is a complete new paradigm where there is no file manager, complex settings and technical knowledge required.
- The integration of the OS and the online stores is just a great thing: Apple managed to get millions of users, developers and content providers. Now everybody tries to have the same but the results are not as successful.
- The Apps. This is something that we know developers like to do. Even in the times of the Palm we were able to get inexpensive applications that more than complex where useful. The same thing happens here. The mix of a powerful machine as the iPad and the value offered by the previous too points is the key: the potential to have easy to use, useful and great looking applications for almost everything.
I do think it is a revolution, all the industry will have to adapt as they did with the iPhone. I don't think huge changes will happen fast.
One of the first things I got in mind: Use iPads on airplanes instead of the terrible screens onboard. Looks like the idea is not new and somewhere in AUstralia they are thinking to implement it.
Is the iPad a Nintendo killer? I don't think so, they are just different and for different use. But I would love to have The Legend of Zelda for iPad :)
The bad: - Looks like not all USB ports are capable of charging the iPad battery.
- The screen tends to be dirty
- The Wifi version does not include full GPS capabilities.


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