Giveaway of the Day Forums

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   Bobby
   Member

   I recently upgraded to an iMac (yessss) and am still experiencing a learning curve, especially with GotD offers. I've already learned about the 'drag to applications folder' for some installations, and use StuffIT for others...

   but when I try to activate a Giveaway, it wants to bring up BlueTooth to phone home (not installed...using AirPort). This happens even within Parallels' virtual WindowsXP environment.

   What Mac program can I use to install and activate Giveaways, if any? Are any of the Giveaways suitable for iMac? If not, can the remarkably resourceful Giveaway team (shameless, I know) arrange to get iMac or 'nix programs?

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   jinkazama
   Member

   Mac programs? on Giveaway? maybe in the far future, i guess as most users have Windows OS insead of Mac...

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   Fred
   Member

   There´s a dual boot manager if you got an Intel Mac.
   It´s called Bootcamp and provided by Apple.
   With that tool you can create a NTFS partition and directly install WinXP on the Mac. :-)

   http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

   Great news. The boot manager will be part of the next version of OS X.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   Bobby
   Member

   Thanks for the rapid responses, folks!

   Haven't tried Boot Camp, but I did purchase Parallels, which is a program allowing XP to run in a virtual environment on this Intel-based Mac. The activation process does not always work there, either. (Wish I had known about Boot Camp prior to purchasing Parallels!)

   On the bright side, all of my too-dang-expensive graphic manipulation programs (like Photoshop and PhotoImpact) work just fine within Parallels. The Giveaways are the only items that will not, and only because of the activation process.

   Posted 17 years ago #

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