![]() ![]() But one metric is very difficult for me, and that’s the stand goal. I work out a lot, and I very rarely don’t close my Activity rings on my watch. You add the date, give it a name and it will display inside the Parallels Toolbox interface, or you can put it in your menu bar so you can obsess over it constantly. If you’re waiting impatiently for an important day, such as your retirement date, you can create a Date Countdown. You can set a named alarm which can repeat on days of your choice if desired. Now they’ve added three new tools within the Time section. In the previous articles, I told you about how Parallels Toolbox lets you create a named timer and show world time. This isn’t a tool I need every day but there are definitely times this will be very handy. Then you’ll see the page start to scroll all by itself (it’s rather spooky) and when it’s done your full page screenshot will drop onto your desktop. When you select the extension icon in the Safari toolbar, you’ll get a warning over the window telling you not to do any scrolling until it’s done. I’ve already told you that Parallels Toolbox can take screenshots of an area, window or full screen, but now they’ve added a Safari extension that lets you screenshot an entire page. You’re going to thank me for learning these ways to organize your tools because now I’m going to tell you about all the cool NEW things they’ve added since 2018! Tools in 2021 Screenshots If you ever change your mind, you can easily re-enable any tools using the same checklist. Getting the unused tools out of the way would make it easier to find the good ones. I’m not sure when they added this feature, but if you open up Preferences using the gear icon in the upper right when you open Parallels Toolbox, you can choose to disable the display of any tools you don’t use.You can also right-click on any tool and choose to put it in the menu bar.Think of it like that top tray in your Craftsman toolbox where you keep your favorite pull-out rule and crescent wrench. If you right-click on any tool, you can set it as a favorite, and it will sit in a tray up at the top.There are three ways to solve this problem. With this many tools, and all the new ones, you might start to find it hard to find the tool you’re looking for. Whew! I would gladly continue to pay for Parallels Toolbox at $20/year because I use many of these apps on a daily basis. Organizing Your Tools Choose Which Tools to Display ![]() Keep that in mind as I tell you about the new goodies in Parallels Toolbox.īut before I tell you about the new tools they’ve added, let me speed read for you what they had in 20: 1st article: July 2017 I don’t own any Windows machines on which to test the tools so they will work slightly differently on the two operating systems. I said that Parallels Toolbox is cross-platform to Windows and Mac. Ok, back to the fun parts of Parallels Toolbox. I know a guy at Parallels and if I can remember his name I’ll write to him about this. But I don’t think that hard to get fixed. A few unlabeled toggles here and there and it would make it really hard to use with VoiceOver. The other mistake is that when you open a tool, it starts in a text field instead of explaining what the screen says. Not that much code to make the icons and text go together. None of the icons are labeled, but if you go past a row of them into the row of names, you can use those to access the tools. For example, the main screen shows the tools in a grid with pretty icons and their names underneath. I think it wouldn’t be a big stretch to make it completely accessible because it’s close, but it misses the mark. The other thing that bums me out is that it’s not entirely accessible. When I work on an alternate Mac from time to time, I feel like I have my hands tied behind my back without my tools. I’m bummed that the Parallels Toolbox licensed is restricted to a single Mac at a time. Well, I’m back in 2021 because my subscription money has been gone to good use because they’ve added even more tools that solve real problems. When I wrote about Parallels Toolbox again in 2018, I called it the gift that keeps on giving because the annual subscription fee of $20 let them add 9 more tools to the toolbox. I’ve not noticed any particular app inside Parallels Toolbox as being unique from other tools on the Internet, but it’s the collection of them all together in one toolbox with a unified interface that makes it so great. This app really is what it says on the tin, a toolbox of little utilities. In July of 2017 I told you about a tool called Parallels Toolbox for macOS and Windows from the people who make the virtual machine software Parallels Desktop. ![]()
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