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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Peripherals

Are Apple Time Capsules Short Lived?

4:00AM Jesus Diaz | Apple’s Time Capsule allows you to back up all the computers in your house. But what’s the point of a network backup server that stays alive for only 17 months and 17 days? More »
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Software

How To: Back Up All Your Stuff, For Free

4:00AM John Herrman | People don’t neglect backing up their computers because it’s hard—it isn’t, at all. No, people file into the inevitable death march of data loss for one reason: Backing up usually costs money. But it doesn’t have to. More »
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Peripherals

X-Power 1 IPhone USB Cord Comes With Built-In Rechargable Battery And….Gives Orgasms To Kristen Bell

12:30PM Rosa Golijan | The X-Power 1 USB cord has a built-in rechargeable battery to give you a bit of backup power on the go (assuming you remember to take the cord with you). Their ad seems to imply more than that though. More »
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Entertainment

PS3’s 2.70 External Video Backup Works, But You Can’t Stream

8:00AM Jason Chen | It’s been a couple months since the PS3 2.70 firmware update, but we’ve finally gotten the chance to test out the external video storage. In two words: it works. More »
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Software

Time Warp Backs Up Your Time Machine, Er, Backups To Amazon

10:45PM Matt Buchanan | One of the more interesting, ways to keep your precious Time Machine backups safe: Time Warp is a $US25 app (free while in beta) that compresses and encrypts your backups, then uploads them to your Amazon S3 account. More »
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Hardware

How To Use Time Machine Backups On Windows Home Server

8:40AM Matt Buchanan | One of the lame things about Time Machine is that backups over the network are only officially supported on Time Capsule. Luckily, even if you don’t have one of HP’s Time Machine-compatible Home Servers, you can make it work. More »
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Hardware

Storage Is Getting Mighty Cheap: WD 4TB MyBook For $1,000

12:28PM Nick Broughall | The new MyBook Studio Edition for Mac from Western Digital is pure value for money. For a grand, you get 4 terabytes of storage space in a Time Machine-friendly system. We’ll take two. More »
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Entertainment

Blu-ray Managed Copy Full-Res Backups Are Only Good In Theory

3:00AM Matt Buchanan | The idea behind Blu-ray Managed Copy sounds good—it’ll let you make one full-res backup copy of a Blu-ray disc, and studios are required to support it beginning next year. But needing brand new hardware is just the start. More »
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Hardware

Seagate Replica Is Time Machine for Windows PCs

12:00AM Matt Buchanan | For all of Windows 7’s niceties, it still doesn’t have an appropriately slick built-in backup system like Time Machine. Enter Seagate Replica, which Rob at BoingBoing Gadgets says works perfectly, just like Time Machine. More »
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Games

New Wii Disc Dumper Copies Games to SD Cards

1:45AM Mark Wilson | The first Wii Disc Dumper required a PC and 50 hours of backup time. The latest v1.2 by nitrotux requires only a Wii loaded with an SD card to make backups of single and dual layer Wii titles as well as GameCube games. The only catch is that the Wii needs to be rebooted during the process quite a few times (3 for SL DVD, 6 for DL DVD and 1 for a GameCube disc). So while the process won’t take 50 hours, it’s not exactly an instantaneous, one-step backup, either. [El Otralado via Maxconsole] More »
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