![]() Spread and close your fingers to zoom in an out. A two-finger tap is the same as a right click. Tapping on the iPad is like clicking the mouse. You engage with these as you would most iPad apps, with various touch gestures substituting for the mouse actions on your computer. If you have an application open it fills the entire iPad screen, though the resolution doesn't live up to the PC or Mac display. When Parallels "applifies" PC/Mac programs - the company's lingo, not mine - the software is modified on the tablet to display iPad-style buttons for actions such as copy/paste/select. I found that Parallels Access mainly delivered on its promise, though I certainly uncovered blemishes. I tried Parallels Access on an Apple iMac, a Dell laptop running Windows 7 and a Microsoft Surface tablet PC running Windows 8. There's an easy-to-access app switcher that lets you go from one program to another. You can start any PC or Mac "desktop" application on the iPad from a launcher screen - icons for the apps you tend to use most appear on that screen, though you can remove any of those and add new ones. You can also use a browser running Adobe Flash on the iPad. And you can interact with those applications on the tablet as if each were designed for the iPad. The big deal here is that you can use any and all of the programs that reside on your remote computers - the proprietary program your company uses, Microsoft Office, or Quicken on your PC at home. Yeah, we've seen that sort of thing before. As its name suggests, Parallels Access lets you use an iPad to access your home or office PC or Mac from afar. ![]() On Tuesday, Parallels - a company that made its mark letting folks run "virtualized" versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system on a Macintosh computer - launched a new subscription service called Parallels Access, which can help free you up so that the iPad is the only computer you take on the road. To get stuff done on the go, you continue to schlep a laptop. There are just too many hassles - you can't run certain programs there's no physical keyboard connectivity can be poor. It is less likely that you engage in many "productive" type activities on Apple's popular tablet, despite business and work apps that are meant to take the place or complement similar programs on your PC or Mac. ![]() NEW YORK - You almost certainly use your iPad to watch movies, listen to music, play games, surf the Web, read a best seller and so on. Watch Video: Ed Baig: Parallels Access review ![]()
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