Parallels Toolbox
4.1.0
Parallels Toolbox4.1.0
Tools to simplify everyday tasks.
Overview
Parallels Toolbox offers a set of tools, with no complicated settings, to simplify everyday tasks.
- Archive Your Files - Compress files with one click to use less storage space. Unarchive any archived files, RAR, zip, and more
- Record Your Screen - Record a video of a screen, active window, or area
- Take Screenshots - Screenshot a screen, active window, or area
- Time Management - A set of handy, easy-to-use time management tools to keep you productive and on task
- Convert A Video - Optimize your home movie or television shows for iPad or iPhone
- Do Not Disturb - Avoid distractions so you can focus on the task at hand. When activated, all notifications and the Dock app animations are disabled
- Do Not Sleep - Prevent your computer from going to sleep and your display from dimming. Ensure a task won’t be interrupted by disabling settings that would allow the computer to go to sleep
- Download A Video - Download your favorite videos from the Internet: YouTube, Vimeo, and many more
- Hide Desktop - Use this tool to hide all the files, folders, and other icons on your desktop when you’re doing a presentation, sharing or recording your screen, or taking screenshots
- Lock Screen - Immediately lock your screen to prevent unauthorized access to your computer. No need to wait until the password-protected screen saver kicks in
- Mute Your Microphone - Mute your computer’s microphone to prevent unauthorized or unwanted listening by other apps
- Record Audio - Use this tool to record audio from your computer’s built-in microphone with a single click. You can record from an external microphone if it is selected as the input source in System Preferences > Sound
Note: price is for a yearly subscription. It includes new and updated tools.
What's new in Parallels Toolbox
Version 4.1.0:
- Support for the Universal Binary format and future Apple Silicon Macs
- Improved compatibility with macOS 11 Big Sur
- Clean Drive detects more unnecessary files that can be safely deleted
- Use keyboard shortcuts to arrange windows size and position with the Window Manager tool
- Open the Parallels Toolbox window with a keyboard shortcut
- New wizard that can help you to make system shortcuts for taking screenshots open the Capture Area and Capture Screen tools
- Set World Time to start together with your Mac
- New periods during which Clipboard History can keep content - 1 hour and 1 day
- Other crash and bug fixes and stability enhancements
Break Time improvements:
- You can check how much time is left till the next break
- Choose to block the screen during breaks (if needed, you can unblock it at any time)
- Choose sound to notify you of a break
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Or maybe these tools aren't for a VM at all, but are an independent product for the Mac. Not what I'd expect, but, hey, YMMV. And given the number of tools involved, maybe the subscription is a way to keep the price down, or to obscure the ongoing cost of ownership. Hard to say. I just have an aversion to subscription software. Then again, I'm a longtime Mac user so I already have apps to do almost everything Parallels Tools can do. However, if you haven't acquired a similar collection, perhaps these will appeal to you.
Maybe my confusion about the tools derives from the fact that they are included with a Parallels 12 upgrade, which makes the upgrade a good deal if you need the tools as well. In addition, compared to the cost of all the other apps I use, the price of the tools is great, if you don't already have a big investment in comparable apps. Color me on the fence.