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I don’t completely understand how logging works, but it is very Unix-like, every application can create its own text-based .log file. Unlike Windows which has a complicated event viewer system and a separate application to look at records. There is /Applications/Utility/Console which gives you one place to look at everything.
But what about event logs [...]

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Normally at work, we have two networks, an unprotected and a protected wifi network, here’s a cool way to implement this. We are going to try this at our Seattle office.
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If you are lucky, you have all new machines from Apple (yeah!) that are 802.11n. These are all the late model MacBook, MacBook Pro and [...]

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Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives – Mac Rumors
Several readers report that Time Machine now supports backups to USB drives connected to your Airport Extreme basestation. This configuration essentially reproduces the functionality of Apple’s Time Capsule product.

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Canon printers have never really gotten along with Macs. I wish I knew that before I bought my i9900 at home and Pro9000 at work. Apparently for instance, ou can’t print over the network. Things are a little better with the Pro9000, but apparently, it is very difficult to get them to work off the [...]

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