Easily run Internet Explorer 7 or 8 on your MAC
WineBottler app lets you run windows apps on your MAC
By jheary on Tue, 12/28/10 - 1:44pm.Sure most of you know that you can use Wine to run Windows applications on your MAC OS X system. But I'm guessing most of you don't use it. Why? Because it is complex and cumbersome to most users. Now Winebottler enters from stage left and things get remarkably easy. In fact, Winebottler allows you to package up Windows applications like IE7 into OS X apps. Then you can execute them just like an OS X application.
WineBottler is being developed by mike kronenberg. It is still in Beta but still a great piece of software. WineBottler allows you to create a completely standalone install of Windows applications that you can then distribute to others. However you do still have to have Wine.app installed on your MAC. WineBottler bundles up everything you'll need in one application file that you just click on to run. It looks like this in finder when you're done.
WineBottler comes with a list of several Windows applications that you can quickly install. Here is the list
The install of Internet Explorer looks just like it does in a Windows environment
To get Wine and WineBottler go here:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
If you have any MAC tips to share please post them.
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