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Easily Check Sandbox Status, Permissions & Code Signing Certificate Of Mac Apps

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iOS apps have always been sandboxed and while a significant number of users might not know just what that means in terms of app stability and permissions, it is likely that they know the restriction is there to keep things running smooth. Apple introduced sandboxing for OS X apps in 2012 for the then-upcoming Mountain Lion. Now, all new apps submitted to the Mac App Store must be sandboxed and while many users may not have noticed the difference, developers certainly have. If you have ever wondered just what a sandboxed app running on your Mac is doing, i.e. what permissions the app is using, SandboxInfo is a free app available in the Mac App Store that tells you just that. The app might be useful for developers as well, but for end users, it is the easiest way to see what an app can do, and check its signing authority. Read More

Spoon: Run Hundreds Of Windows Apps In Sandboxed Virtualization Without Installing Them

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Having too many programs installed in your computer can certainly slow it down. You may already know that applications, and their associated services running in the background, consume precious system memory that can affect your PC’s overall performance. For the same reason, some PC-care applications notify you if an installed tool hasn’t been used for a long time and suggest either suspending it (if it's running in the background) or uninstalling it from the system. One of the reasons most power users rely on application virtualization software is that they provide an easy way to run the application in an isolated environment. Not only does it reduce the chances of data theft and like threats, it also helps your system easily balance the resources shared by active applications.  Spoon is a freshly-baked web application that implements this very concept using your web browser. It runs the applications in a sandbox-like workspace, enabling users to launch programs in a virtualized environment without actually installing them on their computers. Spoon includes different types of applications, each one with multiple versions to choose from, including Browsers, Games, Media Apps, Productivity Apps, Social Apps and Tools. Read More

How To Install Windows 8 As Guest OS Using VMware Player

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The last time we covered a guide on installing Windows 8 as guest operating system using VirtualBox, we showed you how to customize the guest OS to meet the required OS settings and avoid any conflicts with resources shared by the host PC. The process involved setting a number of options, including selecting Windows 7 as OS type, creating a fixed size virtual hard disk image, enabling the Enable IO APIC option etc. VirtualBox is arguably one of the most powerful virtualization software, but it requires users to install additional guest OS additions, so that all major system components work without any issues. This time around, we bring you a step-by-step guide on installing Windows 8 as guest OS using VMware Player. With the latest version of VMware Player, you no longer need to customize virtual machine settings, create a fixed virtual disk or configure other physical memory, motherboard or CPU related options. VMware Player comes loaded with an Easy Install feature that is programmed to automatically set all the configurations required by the guest OS and install the OS on a dynamic size virtual disk image. Read More

Veeam: Free Backup & Replication Tool For VMWare & Hyper-V

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For IT professionals, Virtualization tools like VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V hold immense importance as they allow multiple machines to function from within a host system, saving both time and resources. The significant nature of features like backup and replication are also rightfully needed for reliability and data integrity. Veeam  is a free, data recovery and integrity software that manages virtualized environments effectively while focusing on hardware or software failure prevention. For instance, if you were doing a high priority task on a virtual machine, Veeam would ensure that no technical failure takes place in the first place and if it does, it will put into effect all necessary recovery methods. With the free version of this tool, you can backup a single virtual machine using VeeamZIP files, and recover it using the same files whenever needed. Read More

How To Run Android 4.0 ICS On Windows, Mac & Linux Using VirtualBox

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Android platform shines in nearly every aspect, from its large number of developers support to gargantuan amount of customization options. Being an open source platform, anyone can compile the code and cook their desired ROM according to their own needs (provided they have supported kernal and other required files). One of the latest iterations of Android OS is Ice Cream Sandwich or commonly called as ICS. ICS has brought to table some of the most wanted features of Android, one of them being Hardware Acceleration and brilliant UI .Last year, we covered BlueStacks, an Android app player for Windows that allows you to run numerous Android apps in full screen mode without experiencing much performance or compatibility issues. However, if you want to use the latest version of the Android operating system itself (ICS), without buying a new Android device or flashing a custom ROM to your Android phone, you can run it as a guest OS on your desktop computer using a pre-configured Andriod 4.0 virtual disk image. Just like any guest operating system, you can use all the features and options of Andriod ICS without making any changes to your host system. You'll require Oracle VirtualBox to run the virtual machine, of course. The rest is quite simple, but just in case you get stuck somewhere in the process, following is a brief and simple tutorial on how to get it running. Read More

How To Convert Physical Computer Into Virtual Machine (VMware, VirtualBox & Virtual PC)

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Virtual Machine software like VirtualBox, Virtual PC, Parallels, VMware etc, provide the utility of not only running multiple virtual environments on the host system, but also allow creating and configuring the machines as per the requirements. The Virtual Machine software are designed keeping high-end usage requirements in mind, and therefore, such applications are authorized to gain complete control over all the installed hardware and software components. While machine virtualization utilities are widely used to run disk images of operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux distributions, they don’t allow converting the physical into a virtual machine in order to use the entire system on other platforms in a virtual environment. Today, we look at the the simplest way to convert the local machine to virtual machine, and then configure and run it on other systems using virtualization software. Read More

How To Enable Hyper-V Manager In Windows 8

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If you are keeping a tab on Windows 8 new features and improvements, you must have heard about the inclusion of virtualization client in Windows 8. The Windows 8 includes Microsoft virtualization manager and hypervisor for proficient users, so they don't have to switch to Windows 8 Server in order to use Hyper-V client. If you aren’t familiar with Hyper-V, also known as, Viridian, it’s a hypervisor (hardware/physical virtualization technique to run multiple guest operating systems concurrently on host system) based virtualization system for x86-64 instruction set based system architecture and is already included in Windows Server 2008. Windows 8 Hyper-V client supports one feature which isn’t there in Window Server 2008 R2 and that is sleep/hibernate option. The recently released Consumer Preview of Windows 8 x64 version comes with Hyper-V disabled, but you can easily enable both Hyper-V Core and Management Tools from Control Panel. Read More

Monitor And Manage VMware ESX Server With VM Configuration Tool

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Over the years VMware has arguably been the leader in virtual technology. VMware workstation and VMware ESX have been an extraordinary virtualization resource for small and medium size businesses and individual users. Free VM Configuration Tool is a utility for configuring VMware Virtual servers. Although one might not need much help with the configuration of CPU and RAM of virtual machines on a common VMware workstation, however, what makes this app useful is that it fetches comprehensive data regarding virtual machines and presents them in graphical and report form. Another advantage of VM Configuration Tool is it’s ability to provide an exclusive configuration solution for VMware ESX server. Over the recent past, VMware ESX has been an excellent enterprise-level virtualization product for adding management and reliability services to the core server product. This is one of the main reasons why VM Configuration tool is a handy resource, as it allows managing the RAM capacity, processors, power operations, VM suspension, etc of VMware ESX virtual machines. Read More

Run Applications In Sandbox Using Evalaze Application Virtualization

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Want to quickly deploy an application suite across a large network or make it portable to keep installation files confined to single location, so you can carry the application on flash drives? Previously covered application visualizers Cameyo and Enigma Virtual Box has proved to be powerful in making installed applications portable. Since application virtualization utilities do nothing except capturing all the settings, DLL files, XML, INI and respective registry entries of applications which you want to virtualize, you must be looking for a virtualizer which can thoroughly scan the system for all the drives and registry hives to fetch all the associated data of application which is being virtualized. One such application virtualiztion tool is Evalaze. The workability revolves around scanning the system right before installing the application (which you want to capture) and post-scanning for capturing data of application you have installed. Once the data is captured, you can launch the application without having to worry about any sort of versions conflicts, bloated registry hives, and other damages. One nice example would be of virtualizing MS Office products. For instance, with Evalaze, you can virtualize different versions of MS Office application, Excel 2003, Excel 2010, Word 2007, PowerPoint 2010 and use them without facing any conflicts. Read More

Create Compressed Virtualized Applications With Enigma Virtual Box

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Previously we reviewed Cameyo, which claims to be the very first application virtualization product to hit the market. Since the idea behind application virtualization is to bundle up all the related files, dynamic link libraries (DLL), components, and other essential scripts to prop the main executable file, rather than deploying an application having deep roots in terms of files structure & hierarchy and library classification, it’d be better to go for virtualizing the product, so every connected user on network can seamlessly deploy/install the application without complaining about missing components or other library files. Enigma Virtual Box is built keeping this very need in mind. It is an file system application virtualization software that enables user to embed files which are essential to run an application in question into a single executable file (EXE), without compromising on application’s work-ability. Read More

Cameyo – Free Application Virtualization Software For Windows

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Many IT workers find it frustrating to deploy applications quickly across multiple computers, this is where Application Virtualization comes in. While application virtualization technology has been around for years, good application virtualization products have been expensive and complex to learn, according to the developer of Cameyo. The free open-architecture application virtualization product that combines the best application virtualization technology with simplicity. Read More

Paragon Go Virtual Free: Advanced Migration and Virtualization Tool For Windows

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Paragon Go Virtual is a tool that allows you to migrate from physical hardware platform  to virtual environment.  It lets you to convert any physical system running Windows (later than 2000) with all applications, settings, and user configurations as it is to a virtualized system. It has a build-in support for eminent virtualization tools such as VMware, Microsoft Virtual PC and Oracle Virtual Box. Read More

Linux Live USB Creator & Virtualization Tool

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There are already many tools which allow users to create a bootable USB drive with any version of Linux distro; UNetbootin, MultiBoot, and Ubuntu Live USB Creator, being the popular ones and Fedore Live USB Creator, Free USB Installer, and PendriveLinux’s being the lesser popular ones. Linux Live USB Creator is a powerful all-in-one tool to rule them all. Read More