Anyone have experience with using Oracle's free VirtualBox on a Mac?

I'm a new Mac user, and am wondering about experiences with Oracle's VirtualBox for simultaneously running Windows software? I have some professional software I use for work that is PC-based, and if I can use the free Oracle download it would be cheaper than paying for comparable Mac software.
Thanks!
Jo

Wikipediahas a review of 3 VMs
If you do need to run native Windows install ir on its own drive and use Parallels7 to run under Mac OS as guest OS

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Does anyone have experience with using a Canon Vixia HF M52 Camcorder with Final Cut Express?

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The Vixia HF M52 is an AVCHD camcorder and should work perfectly fine with Final Cut Express 4 (4.0.1).
The published "camcorder support list" has never been up to date and I would not take it to be a definitive list of compatible camcorders.
One note, however, the Vixia HF M52 supports a number of different shooting modes. I suggest sticking with the AVCHD 1920 x 1080i / 60 fps mode for use with FCE. FCE does not support progressive modes except in 720p25/30 (which the M52 does not seem to shoot anyway); nor does FCE support any 24 fps modes.

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I'm trying to connect my 12-inch powerbook to a 23-inch Cinema display and bought the VGAtor which is supposed to allow this combination to work. I can't get anything to show on the 23-inch display nor my powerbook to recognize that there is another display connected. I've downloaded what I think is a display driver from Dr. Bott's website but it just sits on my desktop; I don't know where I should put it if it is, in fact, a driver (when I "Get Info", it shows as a "Unix Exectuable File"). Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks for the input. I currently have a 17-inch Studio display connected to my Powerbook so I know it can run another monitor. I haven't tried connecting the new 23-inch display to a DVI-compatible (newer) computer; maybe I should try that next to ensure that monitor is working.
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I've tried a full clean re-install of Compressor, QuickTime and Flip4Mac and I still get this error. Does anyone out there have any ideas?

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Anyone have experience with SmartCurve, especially in PSE3?

In a discussion captioned PSE 4.0 vs 5.0 (current last message 43, Oct 3, 2006)there is the exchange below. I decided to start a new thread because the old one had gone elsewhere.
Two questions: Does anyone have experience with SmartCurve? And does it care about version? I have PSE3. However, the software does not specify but was updated 9/11/06 and thus is for PSE4 at least.
Duncan
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Robert Eckerlin - 3:55am Sep 28, 06 PST (#29 of 43)
Dean, could you please point me to those "Curves" Plug-ins that work with PSE 4 (and that will hopefully also work with PSE V5)?
Thanks a lot in advance
Robert
Juergen D - 2:47pm Sep 28, 06 PST (#30 of 43)
Robert,
Is this what you are looking for:
http://free.pages.at/easyfilter/curves.html ?
Juergen

Jack,
You assumed correctly. Grant's Curve tool can only access the composite RGB channel. His tool does have the advantage of using an adjustment layer mask...so you can mask out parts you don't want adjusted by the curve. The advantage of using a mask vs a duplicate layer and eraser is that with a mask you never destroy pixils...just hide them...so if you make a mistake it can save a lot of time and frustration. On the negative side, you won't be able to reopen the curves adjustment layer once okayed...but you can still edit the mask.
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Be sure you go to Adobe's Web Site and make sure there are no Updates for CS6
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Does anyone have experience with unzipping a password-encrypted ZipFile??

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Does anyone have experience with Virgin or Boost Mobile?

I have been with verizon for a long time...I have 4 lines with this service. I have since bought several phones off of craigslist or ebay just so I wouldn't have to be subjected to the tier plan. We use so much data it's crazy. I want the new Samsung Galaxy S4 so bad!!! Grrr! I've even thought about switching to Virgin Mobile or Boost Mobile. We pay so much for our phones now and I know of one guy who has boost mobile and loves it. Does anyone have experience with these providers?

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Does anyone have experience with Iogear GBU 421? My MacPro has no in-built Bluetooth.

Does anyone have experience with Iogear GBU 421? My MacPro has no in-built Bluetooth.

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Does anyone have experience with having multiple editors work on the same project from different computers?

Does anyone have experience with having multiple editors work on the same project from different computers?

As much as I hate to admit it, YOU ARE RIGHT!
I will tread lightly on this project.
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Does anyone have experience with migrating applications from iAS6.0 SP2 to SP3? Did it go smoothly or are there problems to be expected?

Hi,
I haven't. But, there are lots of changes from each service packs,
henceforth you may have to stick to what the documentation says to avoid
the errors that shoots up. Again, the errors depends upon how you have
coded your application. Please let me know if you have encountered any
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Since it is AV software and there are no virus on the Mac, I suggest you forget it.
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anyone have trouble with using Last Pass on macbook pro
why don't you just state what problems you are having?
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Anyone have experience with LV 2011 SP1?

Just asking whether anyone has experience with the latest LabVIEW 2011 Service Pack 1?
I haven't had any problems with 2011 (I had big problems with 2010 and building big applications but 2011 fixed that). One figures that a service pack with no new features should be a good version to stick with for a while so I'm keen to update but..... there seems to be a patch f1 already addressing some major issues that weren't in the 2011 version! I found one posting on 2011 SP1 where someone has reported problems with it but it ended up being a discussion on OOP so it wasn't clear if the LabVIEW SP1 version was the problem. Maybe not many people have moved to it yet.
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Helpful feedback. Ben's comment on the problem with LVOOP probably explains an issue I reported in this posting when I updated a program to 2011 where I used the Harmonic Cursor XControl. The problem was somewhere in the LVOOP code but I didn't persist with it as I don't have the experience in that area.
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I'm still confused regarding patches that come out and compatibility between development environment and the run-time engine, as downloaded off NI's website. It makes sense that if you build an installer for a client from the development environment that it should contain a compatible run-time engine. But for various reasons I prefer that a user of my programs gets the run-time engine off NI's website.
I just noticed that the filename for the latest 2011 SP1 runtime engine includes "f1" in the zip file name so thats pretty clear and hopefully no more patches.
I recall with 2010 when the early patches came out, that the text with the page for the run-time engine download actually noted that the run-time engine included the patches. That gave some confidence.
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