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I’ve noticed that Time Capsules can really run hot. I haven’t figured it out, but it looks like something keeps accessing them. Speculation is that if you have the Time Capsule drives mounted on a Mac, then the hard disk stays spinning.
I’ve had mine stacked and that seems to be bad too. You want them [...]

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We’ve found Time Machine incredibly, incredibly slow on the initial backup. Even with gigabit ethernet, it would backup may 3GB after 2 hours. With the way we use machines at work, it would just start over all the time. Macrumors.com has some advice about what to do:

Turn off Time Machine
If you aren’t using a Time [...]

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Sigh, I’ve had this happen three times now, when I install a bunch of applications and press the HOME button to get back, the iPhone comes up with a spinning wheel and won’t stop. When I turn it on, the apple logo comes up and the spinning wheel is under it. mazbarz had exctly the [...]

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Macrumors.com says the $99 Airport Express is going to get 802.11n networking. This is a very nice piece of hardware that complements the Time Capsule mainly. You can use it to add a printer to your network (in essence, it converts a USB printer into a network printer), you can use it as an [...]

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