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Today I was browsing around the Mac App Store, glancing around to see some of the Apps available a few days post-launch (I didn't do this earlier because I was working on my own app—more on this later).

What I found surprised and elated me:

Looks like the 'Catholic Calendar' application, developed by Universalis, is shown as one of the featured 'Lifestyle' applications, and is even the icon tile for the Categories overview page.

It'd be nice if the app had a more Catholic icon (the Latin text just doesn't set it off for me... look at the other icons - most of them are very simple/pleasing, and convey more meaning), but I'll take what I can get!

Does anyone else have a Catholic Mac App out there yet? Additionally, does anyone know who works with Universalis to keep on top of the game in this area? They've been doing a smash-up job lately in the mobile and desktop application world, amidst a field of thousands of other apps.

As some of you already know, I was a PC for about 15 years (although I was a Mac before that when I worked in the music biz).

When I made the leap to my MacBook Pro about 5 months ago, I figured I'd need to do some virtualization, so I picked up Parallels 4. Just got an email today about the new version 5 ($39), so I read what I could find about it (not much BTW) and went for it.

Very pleased so far! I've got a 2.5Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and while version 4 was just OK, Parallels 5 is about 50% faster/more responsive and has a slick new viewing mode called "Crystal"...which is really just like coherence mode.

I only have a few apps that I sparingly use in Windows, but the biggest reason I keep it around is for Internet Explorer 6 testing (ugh!) on XP.

When I was a PC, I did A LOT of virtualization (network administration). Created a few virtual servers and also did workstation testing/dev with it.

Couple questions for the aud...

Anyone else do any virtualization? If so, what are you using...and are you happy with it? :)

I did some rudimentary eval of Fusion and wasn't overly impressed...but I didn't spend a whole lot of time with it. It may also be because I converted my Parallels image to Fusion...if I'd have built a new client OS from scratch in Fusion it may have been snappier.