For years folks have been asking, can you run BreezeBrowser on a Mac? I have been using Downloader Pro to download my images and BreezeBrowser Pro to edit my day-take folders quickly and efficiently. It temporarily sharpens the images and viewing is virtually instantaneous, a far cry from waiting for photos to “generate” for viewing in Bridge. I can often have a morning’s images downloaded and edited (have the keepers selected) before my lunch is served. You can learn more about these two great programs here. <\/p>\n
Recently I’ve been hearing that all Windows PC manufacturers will soon quit making laptop screens of high enough quality to support the work that we currently do on our HP PCs. I am somewhat of an oddity in I optimize all of my best images on my laptop (rather than on my home computer). Recently, I began bugging my superb web guy, Peter Kes, about running BreezeBrowswer Pro and Downloader Pro on a Mac. Peter kindly wrote two short pieces for me to share. The first is a bit simpler than the second. Reading both will–when the time comes–make the transition easier.<\/p>\n
This version is a joint effort: <\/p>\n
Mac users can use one of two different virtual machine products to run operating systems other than Mac OS. Those include Parallels Desktop and VMWare\/VMWare-Fusion. Once you have installed either of these, you can install and run a Windows operating system like XP, Windows 7, or Vista on your Mac. Once that is accomplished and Windows is up and running on your virtual machine you can install programs like BreezeBrowser Pro, and Downloader Pro. Serious creative photographers who are into Out-of-the-Box stuff can even run Fractalius on a Mac. Do note, however, that a Window’s copy of Photoshop or Elements needs to be installed for Fractalius to work. In all of the preceding cases, the programs and plug-ins will run just as they would on a Windows machine. And all of you know that I find the convenience of Downloader Pro BreezeBrowser Pro to be unbeatable; in combination, they save me dozens of hours each month. <\/p>\n
Note: installing Windows on a virtual machine requires that you own a legal copy of the Windows operating system. This is where VMWare Fusion comes in handy; you can use this program to import a Windows operating system that has been previously installed on a PC. Once imported, you will have a fully operative copy of the original Windows operating system that will be already registered. <\/p>\n
This version–directly from the keyboard of Peter Kes–may shed additional light on the BreezeBrowser on a Mac issue for many of you.<\/p>\n
More than once I hear from friends and colleagues questions related to Windows vs Mac functionality. Most software is available for both platforms but often there is only a Windows solution. Good examples of this–from the photographic community–,re BreezeBrowser Pro and Downloader Pro, available only for Windows platforms. The BreezeBrowser products are in many ways very intuitive to use and offer a great many functions that make downloading, sorting, and organizing your images very easy. I use both programs on my Mac most every day. <\/p>\n
The most recent release of Mac (Mac OS X Lion) de-commissioned support for Rosetta. This function in older Mac operating systems allowed for the installation of PowerPC based applications. As Rosetta is no longer supported many applications that previously ran fine on a Mac are now useless. Vendors are either late, unwilling, or unable to develop a Mac OS X Lion solution. After my upgrade from Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Mac OS X Lion a number of my favorite applications did not run anymore. (For example, on my updated Mac the Fuji X10 camera software failed.)<\/p>\n
There is a simple and powerful solution for this: virtualization software for your Mac. How does that work? It allows you to run other operating systems like Windows (e.g. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7) or other operating systems on a Mac. With this solution a dual boot is not required. Your Windows programs will run like any other applications, in a virtual machine, in parallel with other applications on your Mac. You can now install Windows-only programs or programs that were previously able to run with Apple\u2019s Rosetta support in the virtual machine <\/p>\n
There are two ways to get to a Windows-based virtual machine on your Mac.<\/p>\n
If you have a Windows license or a legal copy of a Windows Installation CD, you can purchase a license for Parallels Desktop for Mac V10.7. Once purchased, downloaded, and installed with a valid license key, you will launch the program and install Windows within Parallels Desktop. You can order a copy of Parallels Desktop by clicking here<\/a>. <\/p>\n If you have a Windows license in the form of a privately owned Windows PC (you have a PC with Windows on it but do not have the Installation CD), you will want to purchase VMWare Fusion 5 instead of Parallels. Once purchased, you install the software on your Mac and then install the migration assistant software that comes with VMWare Fusion 5 on your Windows PC.<\/p>\n When these installations are complete, launch the Mac installed VMWare Fusion server component. Now open the PC migration assistant software on your PC and follow the instructions for pairing your PC with the Mac. VMWare on your Mac will now import everything on your PC into a new virtual machine: all applications installed on your PC can now run from within the virtual machine on your Mac. This is a great solution for those who own PCs that are already loaded with Windows-based software solutions. You can order a copy of VmWare Fusion 5 by clicking here<\/a>. <\/p>\n I have installed and used both Parallels Desktop for Mac V10.7 and VMWare Fusion 5 and am very happy with the performance of both. <\/p>\n Thanks to Peter Kes for his help here. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment on the blog; Peter will get back to you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BreezeBrowser on a Mac <\/p>\n For years folks have been asking, can you run BreezeBrowser on a Mac? I have been using Downloader Pro to download my images and BreezeBrowser Pro to edit my day-take folders quickly and efficiently. It temporarily sharpens the images and viewing is virtually instantaneous, a far cry from waiting for photos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-147","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}