What do you get when you combine Apples and Oranges, apparently it's a Pear as in PearPC. PearPC is an open source project that lets you run Mac OS X inside Windows XP. Yes, I am on an Apple Kick lately. I have a good excuse this time, no really, I do. So the big project at work has to be cross-browser and cross-platform compatible. So that means I have to test on just about everything. I even have a webTV emulator on my development machine. I have the only Mac in the entire company on my, and my mate Ed's desk (Our desks are connected). However, I  don't always develop at work.  I've been doing alot of template coding on the train and in the evenings at home. Well I got a huge piece of the templates finished and tested it on Firefox, IE, Camino, Opera and Safari. It looked perfect in all of them on both the PC and the Mac, with Safari being the exception. Well It's a little hard to code for Safari on the train ride home, when I'm on a PC. So after doing a little googling this afternoon I rediscovered PearPC and had to try it. So Far so good. While it isn't blazingly fast, I just need it for the safari browser. I installed it and configured it, which was pretty straight forward. Created some ISO images from my legal copy of Mac OS X, and low and behold, I have Mac OS X running in the middle of my Windows XP machine. My next mission, get the networking figured out. I've found a good resource for that, so I shall tackle that one tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes.