Parallels is sooooooooooo awesome

Yeah, I'm on that again. I've been cleaning and neatening and such,
you see. I found some papers that needed scanning, and scanning
takes forEVER on just one scanner. Not to mention, I hate the new
scanner's software, because it's inefficient. So I whipped out my
old scanner and hooked it up to Shady. Imagine:

Shady = iMac running OS X v10.4 (Tiger)
Old Scanner = Canon CanoScan LIDE 30, which does not work with OS X
but will work with XP.
Soran, my old PDA = Handspring Visor Edge, which works with XP but
not OS X.
Parallels v3.0 = "virtual computer" software for the Mac that allows
me to run XP as a "virtual computer" - i.e., it runs on top of OS X,
as if it were its own little program that can run its own little
programs.

I "boot" Windows, tell Parallels to connect the scanner to it, and
whammo, I'm scanning from two devices into the same computer, one in
OS X, the other in Windows.

It gets better.

I decided to open one of the "windows" scanjobs with ACDSee. Whilst
doing this, I saw "Xee.app." Xee.app?! That's a MAC app!! Why is
that showing up in Windows, I wondered?? So I selected it. The
document actually opened in Xee!! From Windows!! ba ba ba ba ba, I
say...

So I finish my scans and such, and say to myself, "It's been a while
since I synched my PDA." I pull it from its case, dock it, and hit
its little button. The pda software inside my Windows session goes,
"Oh, hey, you're synching.... done."

I LOVE technology.

The coolest thing is my dock while I'm running Windows in Coherency
mode. The only sign of Windows actually running is the Start bar
that spans the bottom of the screen. Tiger's dock appears to be
sitting on top of it!! :D

~nv