Two Faced

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The other day I picked up a copy of Two Faced: The Changing Face of Portraiture and I have to say it's fantastic, definitely one of the best art and design books I have bought in a long time. There are so may different styles and artists that you can't help but be inspired. The book is beautifully designed and features portraits from artists, designers, photographers and illustrators. I can't say enough good things about it, so go and buy yourself a copy.

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IE 6 & 7 with Snapshots

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Over the weekend I have been reinstalling Windows XP under parallels and I came across a great way to get full install of IE6 and IE7 running on the same Mac system. Parallels was recently updated to version 3 and a new feature called Snapshots has been added.

"Snapshots instantly saves the state of your virtual machine, bulletproofing your VM from mishaps and system crashes."


So Snapshots basically allows you to save the state of your computer and return to that state at any given time. Here how to take advantage of that feature to run full installs of both IE6 and IE7.

1. Create a clean install of windows XP so that you have IE6 installed. I would also recommend downloading and installing Firefox 1.

2. Under parallels click Actions ->Run Snapshot Manager

3. Create a Snapshot named IE6

4. Download IE7 and firefox 2 and install both

5. Create another snapshot named IE7

Thats it your done, now you can easily switch between the two full versions of Internet Explorer. Click on the image below to view a video which shows the process of switching from one state to the next. Sorry for the terrible quality.

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