After numerous reports of freezing issues in iMacs running OS X Lion, Apple responded with its iMac Graphic FW Update 3.0 to address this problem. The update weighs in small at only 482KB and requires a user to be running OS X Lion. You can read more about it, as well as download it, from Apple’s support document, or from Software Update instead if you’d prefer.

Apple has released Boot Camp Software Update 3.3 for everyone who is running it. Boot Camp enables users to run Windows on an Intel-based Mac. To be able to use the update, you’ll need to be running Boot Camp 3.2 as well as either Win7-32 bit or Win7-64bit.

If you’ve ever found yourself in the position where you need or want to install Windows (natively) on your Mac, you are probably familiar with Apple’s Boot Camp software. Boot Camp allows you to set a native Windows installation on your Mac easily. The application takes care of everything, and makes the process of creating a target partition, beginning the installation process and installing the right drivers, a very simple task.

But, if you are a Windows user on a Mac with Boot Camp, you may also be familiar with a common problem involving disk space. As soon as you begin installing software (productivity apps, games, antivirus, antispam, and general utilities), you become aware that free space will be eventually gone, forcing you to take action and solve the situation.

Learn of an easy way to do it after the break.

Parallels, Inc. introduced a new update to its popular Parallels Desktop application on Friday. The latest version, 3.0.5600, brings support for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP Sp3. It also fixes some other issues, including: Kernal panics, unusually high CPU usage, and improvements to shared folders. This update should have automatically downloaded for existing registered more »

Usually semi-major releases excite me (I consider a .1 somewhat of a major release) excite me, but this brand spanking new release from Apple seems to be quite dull. Today’s release is Boot Camp 2.1. No, it doesn’t add any cool new features, installers, management tools. In fact, nothing is visually or noticeably new. Really, more »

This rumor seems WAY out there but it might just be possible. Currently this one sits in the decidedly speculative section, but if it’s real it could be the the big M (no, not McDonalds) is taking a decidedly different view of their place in the market. Until now Microsoft’s stance has been that if more »

Two important Boot Camp-related announcements were made this week, one by Microsoft and one by Apple. Firstly, it was reported Monday that Apple was including 64 Bit Vista support in it’s Mac Pro editions of Mac OS X. It quietly introduced this, with no mention of it other than this snippet from the installation instructions:

Important: You must use a single full-install Windows installation disc (Service Pack 2 is required for Windows XP installations). Do not use an upgrade version of Windows and do not install an earlier version of Windows XP and attempt to update it later to SP2 or later. Use only 32-bit versions of Windows. If you have a Mac Pro introduced in late 2007 or later, you can use a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.

No, really, what is the best computer out there that runs Windows Vista? You might be pleasantly surprised, or even shocked that we’re asking such a question, given that we’re an Apple-centric blog. But it turns out, the best PC for the job happens to be Apple’s very own iMac, at least according to renowned journalist Walt Mossberg.

Monday at the WWDC Keynote, Boot Camp only got a little bit of screen-time. Steve briefly described a few features of the new Boot Camp. Even though it was updated to v1.3 only a few days ago, it will see another upgrade in October, with Leopard. In Leopard, Boot Camp will have all of the more »