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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 »
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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11:04AM Nick Broughall | Considering LG launched its first HDTV with a build in hard drive years ago, I’m surprised we haven’t seen other companies offering the same feature. Maybe it was just that they hadn’t come up with a cool name for it, like ‘Time Machine’. More »
LG’s ‘Time Machine’ Plasma Don’t Actually Travel Through Time
11:04AM Nick Broughall | Considering LG launched its first HDTV with a build in hard drive years ago, I’m surprised we haven’t seen other companies offering the same feature. Maybe it was just that they hadn’t come up with a cool name for it, like ‘Time Machine’. More »
Hardware
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 »
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 »
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 »
Computers
HP MediaSmart EX487 Server Has Remote MP3 Streaming, Mac Time Machine Compatibility
3:01PM Adrian Covert | HP’s EX485/7 iteration of their MediaSmart Server is official, and now comes with a revamped UI, remote music and photo streaming capability, and is the first non-apple NAS product to support Time Machine. galleryPost('servermediasmarthp', 3, ''); More »
Networks
LaCie Says 6TB Ethernet Disk Actually Works With Apple’s Time Machine
3:35PM Elaine Chow | LaCie’s newest ethernet disk isn’t only cool because it stores up to a whopping six terabytes in its stack. According to the company, it’s also a NAS that’s compatible with Apple’s Time Machine. More »
Software
Next Version of Windows Home Server May Include ‘Time Machine’ Type of UI
1:55AM Sean Fallon | Microsoft appears ready to whip the Mac faithful into a frenzy with their latest job posting for a Windows Home Server software development engineer. According to the posting, they are currently looking for someone to help deliver a “top notch UI for the next release.” The posting goes on to say that a: “Time Machine compete (sp?) UI for backup and restore, Windows Media Centre integration UI, Live Mesh integration UI” are the top priorities. While WHS already features backup functionality, it lacks a fancy-pants OS X Time Machine style UI—something that may be corrected in the next release if Microsoft finds the right person for the job. [Computer Jobs via istartedsomething] More »
Software
Leopard OSX 10.5.3 Now Available
3:04AM Wilson Rothman | Mac Software Update now contains Leopard OSX version 10.5.3, which addresses issues with AirPort and other networking reliability, and resolves a few Time Machine and Time Capsule problems—Aperture is now compatible, we’re told. It also has improved Spaces usability. Check it out and let us know if you find anything else out. [Apple] More »
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