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In the 7.3.1 firmware, you can now connect a USB Drive to a Time Capsule and then archive the 1TB disk itself. That is a backup of the backup. This is supposed to be fast. However, this is a one time copy so if you don’t have enough space on your backup USB drive and [...]

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I don’t quite get where you are, but http://twitter.com/richtong is something I’ve started to use. It is great for two things, in case someone really wants to know where you are and doesn’t want to call I guess, but the really great thing is that with twitter IM and twitter texting, I can send URLs [...]

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Well, if you buy a Time Capsule, it works easily as an Apple network disk, but what about as a file server for Windows machines. This is a bit tricky, because of mapping, but basically, if you set it up to. By the way a big limitation is that the Time Capsule name must be [...]

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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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John has been having some trouble with his Time Capsule. The two I have have been working great with the exception that backups don’t seem to start properly (may be related to passwords), but there is lots of folklore about how to deal with Time Machine and also a very active http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253

If you update to [...]

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