Time to take control of your messy folders and do a bit of Housekeeping! This weeks show features a great utility for managing your files, folders, trash and un-installs. All in one easy to use, yet exceptionally powerful package.

This week's show is sponsored by NoodleSoft and features their recently upgraded application - Hazel.

Hazel is a utility that resides in your preference pane (and optionally your Menu bar) and constantly monitors the folders that you instruct it to. By applying rules, you can make Hazel move, sort, colour, re-arrange, file... well pretty much anything with your files and folders. The really cool thing is it does it all automatically once you've created your rules.

For example, simply create a a rule for Hazel to monitor your desktop and automatically move completed downloads from your desktop to a sorted folder structure. Hazel does it for you automatically.

Add in some neat features to manage your Trash effectively and finish off with App Sweep to help you cleanly un-install applications.

App Sweep is built into Hazel and cleans your mac by sweeping up the miscellaneous files that a standard uninstall leaves behind, and you've got a pretty fully featured package that makes keeping your mac in tip top shape a pleasure.

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This week I review one of my favourite apps, one that makes life so much simpler for switchers and for anyone who still needs access to Windows applications. I was going to wax lyrical about it but I've taken the easy way out and "borrowed" some info from the Parallels website!

"Parallels Desktop for Mac is the first solution for Intel-Macs that gives you the flexibility of running Windows on a Mac simultaneously without rebooting.

It is fast and flexible by enabling you to run critical Windows-only applications like Internet Explorer, Outlook, Project, Access and Quicken at full speed. Because Windows is completely isolated from OS X, there is no chance of infecting your Mac with Windows viruses. What is more, running Windows through Parallels is more secure now than running it on a real PC.

The one-click installation is simple, intuitive, and automatically installs and configures your Windows hardware drivers. With Parallels Desktop for Mac you can now run all the applications you need without switching between Windows and Mac OS X!

Coherence shows Windows applications as if they were running natively on your Mac. Use Coherence to truly enjoy the best of both worlds at the same time!

Transporter is a powerful new built-in tool that quickly helps you to migrate your existing Windows PC to a Parallels Virtual Machine and to convert VMware and Virtual PC virtual hard disks to Parallels virtual machines. Also, Parallels Desktop for Mac now supports USB 2.0 devices at their full speed.

Better Boot Camp support is now available. Using your Boot Camp partition in Parallels Desktop for Mac is now easier than ever: no need to re-activate Windows each time you switch between Boot Camp and Parallels. Also, now available - easy offline configuration. Simply tell Parallels Desktop for Mac that you want to create a virtual machine from a Boot Camp Partition and click start.

True "Drag and Drop" functionality - a long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Parallels Desktop for Mac now shares the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows - no more worrying about which copy of the file is the most recently updated."

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