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Want to be able to run Windows applications on Mac OS X without a virtual machine?Apple computer users have used virtual machines programs such as Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion to run Windows on their machines for ages now. Apple even implemented a feature called Bootcamp so that Mac users can install Windows on a second partition of their storage drive and boot up to it as a second operating system. But, what if you want to run Windows’ .exe programs directly from your Mac operating system? This has been impossible until now. In the Mac App Store, you can download an application called WinOnX. This application doesn’t require you to have any instance of Windows on your computer. Instead, you can download .exe (executable) applications to run directly from this program virtually. So in simpler words: you can run Windows applications on your Mac computer without Windows installed.
Here’s how:
Download WinOnX from the Mac App Store. It will cost you $4.99. After downloading WinOnX, find a .exe program that you wish to run, for example, Mozilla Firefox for Windows and download it. Once it downloads, you can double-click it to run it like you could with any .app application on your Mac computer. WinOnX will run you through installing and using the Windows application like you would on Windows, only on your Mac instead. Running Firefox for Windows on your Mac will yield this look:
This option will cost you some money, but it uses a lot less disk space for Mac users. If you have a solid state drive like me, you may select this option instead of dual booting in order to save storage drive space. Redmond Pie recommends that you just buy a new PC to install Windows programs on, because Mac is beautiful on its own.
Name: WinOnX
Price: $4.99
Version: 1.0.1
Developer: Hisham El-Emam – NES Software
Editor’s Rating: 3/5Alternatively, you can try the free application: WineBottler.
iCloud’s ‘Documents in the Cloud’ doesn’t let you do much except upload iWork files for use with iOS devices. To use those documents on another Mac, you have to download the file using the iCloud web interface.
Poking around in the ~/Library folder, you can find a ‘Mobile Documents’ folder that is used for syncing iWork documents. But it turns out you are not limited to iWork files if you just want to sync between Macs (i.e. no iOS use).
If you are using iCloud and have the ‘Documents & Data’ option selected in the preference pane, you can navigate to ~/Library/Mobile Documents. Depending on whether or not you’ve used iWork and synced documents to iCloud, you may or may not find folders there for each of the iWork applications (e.g. com~apple~numbers).
This doesn’t really matter. What is of use is that any files put into the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will automatically upload to iCloud and push to any other Mac you have that is signed in to the same iCloud account and has the ‘Document & Data’ iCloud preference checked. Lion even notifies you of version conflicts and allows you to resolve them when you open the document.
While its not entirely like with mobileme – its one step in the right direction
Hi,
I recently upgraded my Dell D430 to run OSX Lion – and with that i noticed that coolbook no longer is working.
The problem lies within AppleACPIPlatform.kext in Lion and the solution is to replace it with the one from Snow Leopard 10.6.7
Howto fix it:
1. Download kexthelper
2. Download AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.6.7
3. Extract both to desktop
4. Use kexthelper to install AppleACPIPlatform.kext
5. Reboot
6. Reinstall coolbook
Enjoy!
Hey,
So, we just launched our beta of our new forum at: www.osxlatitude.com/forum .. so join us there 
//Leon
Got a dell latitude running OSX.. but no sleep ?.. the D4x0 got the solution for you.
Check this out:
//Leon
I’m proud to announce that the D4x0 Group have launched www.osxlatitude.com
With the new domain, we also open up for a broader set of users, not just D420/D430 Latitude users, but everyone who owns a Dell Latitude with a deep wish to run OSX on it.
So.. wanna run OSX on your dell latitude … today ?
We also launched our new Google Group today, that will make it so much easier in the future to track what we are working on.
//Leon
