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Time Capsule Memorial Web Site Launches, Shames Apple

Written on October 12, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 16 people have commented

Enterprising Apple customers unhappy with the inexplicable death of their Time Capsules have taken matters into their own hands and launched a dedicated web site to record and discuss their experiences. It’s called The Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register, and it’s hauntingly beautiful.
The site has been created to provide a central support hub for Time [...]

Apple Adds 2TB Time Capsule, Now Available

Written on July 30, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 8 people have commented

Without much fanfare, and over a day later than it usually announces products, Apple has released a new version of its integrated network storage/Wi-Fi router today.
The new Time Capsule sports an industry pace-keeping 2TB of hard drive space, and can be yours for a mere $499. Not bad, considering your average external USB 2TB drive [...]

How-To: Access Your Time Capsule Over the Internet

Written on May 14, 2009 by Jenny Kortina and 16 people have commented

The other day my friend called me to tell me that he bought this new product called Pogoplug. The Pogoplug is pretty cool; you plug it into the wall, connect a hard drive to it, then connect it to your local Internet, and you have an NAS ready to go. I thought it was a [...]

How-To: Port Forwarding On an Airport Extreme & Time Capsule

Written on May 05, 2009 by Jenny Kortina and 20 people have commented

When I moved into my new apartment I brought with me a 1TB Time Capsule that I was previously using as a network storage device because my old roommate already had a Linksys router. None of my new roommates had routers, so I decided to use the Time Capsule as both our router and network [...]

New Airport Extreme and Time Capsule

Written on March 03, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 7 people have commented

The Airport Extreme and Time Capsule were updated today with some new features that, while they don’t change the basic capabilities of the devices, do make them more flexible. Both devices now offer “guest networking” and simultaneous dual-band networks. All of the new features apply equally to the Airport Extreme and the Time Capsule. The [...]

View Time Capsule Movies in Front Row

Written on July 07, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 10 people have commented

I fired up front row the other day for the first time after getting a Time Capsule, and sure enough my Time Capsule movies weren’t indexing. I first tried using the settings inside of Front Row to map the folder, but there was no mapping option available. Next I tried making an alias [...]

Walkthrough: Easy Backups with Mozy (and how to get a few free gigs)

Written on May 26, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 47 people have commented

Many people still have not made the “Leopard leap” and upgraded to Apple’s latest operating system. And of those who have, I am sure there are many that are either not using Time Machine, or want an off-site backup system. It is nice to be able to back up all your stuff to a backup [...]

First release of the day: Time Capsule

Written on January 15, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 12 people have commented

Macworld 2008’s keynote is currently underway and the first new product out of the gates is Time Capsule.
Time Capsule seems to be Apple’s answer to wirelessly backing up your data with Time Machine. Time Capsule is an Airport Extreme base station with a “server grade” internal hard drive. It looks pretty much identical to the [...]