Associate editor George Starcher has done a wonderful three part series on how to use OpenDNS. George and I teamed up. He did the great content, and I did all the post production. Part two will be released on Friday night and part three on Saturday night. Thanks to George.
If you want the iPod or iPhone version go here and looks for the file towards the bottom.
by: George Starcher, Associate Editor
Woo Woo! Apple came through. Today they released an OSX update for Time Machine and an Airport Extreme firmware update. You have to do BOTH of them to see a shared USB drive on your Extreme as a drive option in Time Machine.
You also have to access the drive, thus mounting it once before Time Machine can see it. Now here is where I had fun tonight.
My 24″ Intel iMac could see the shared USB drive as a valid TM target drive. BUT no other mac in my house could. Even though they were all updated and could mount and browse the shared drive as a NAS drive. Wireless vs wired didn’t matter. Intel vs PPC didn’t matter. I even tried manually reapplying the OSX Time Machine patch. No luck.
Finally here is what did work. In the airport utility I did a “Disconnect all users”. I then removed the drive from the Extreme N Router. I directly attached it to one of my macs, ran a repair permissions. It found and fixed a few things. I then re-attached it back to the Extreme. Now once I mounted the drive on each mac, the drive showed up fine in TM as a valid target. It did not overwrite existing files but made a new sparse image file for each mac I sent the TM backup for.
So if you have done all the updates, can browse it through the shared NAS option but never see it as a Time Machine target when you go to change drive, do the repair permissions while USB wired directly to a mac. That should fix you up.
Good luck and happy backups!
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Bart Busschots Terminal Tips and Unix tutorials
UPDATE: Sure enough the visit to the store shows a new Aiport Express with the 802.11n radio.
Introducing the new AirPort Express Base Station, now with 802.11n wireless. Easily create a wireless network at home. Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house. Share a USB printer without obtrusive cables. And do it all with the latest wireless technology.
Same $99.00 U.S. price but now the “AirPort Express now uses next-generation 802.11n wireless technology1 to deliver up to five times the performance and up to twice the range of 802.11g wireless networks.2″
These devices are just wonderful to travel with, listen to music remotely and more. It’s a bout time.
Well I went to edit something on my site and noticed by Apple Store widget said the “Store was down.” Sure enough it is.
I suspect this is likely the release of the now anticipated 802.11n Aiport Express. There was a leak this weekened that this product was going to come out. I’ll update this story as I get updates.
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Tonight co-host is Scotty from the Late Night Cocoa Podcast, and the Mac Developer Network . During the show we discuss Mac programing basics, the iPhone SDK, Cocoa programing, shareware and much more. Thanks to Scotty for joining us from the U.K. so early in the morning to do this show.
Also support Scotty by taking a look and trying out one of the software tittles he sells Track Time . He has graciously donated some licenses for me to give away, so look for that in the next few weeks.
A special thanks to The Reverend Doctor Bobby Newton of The Church Of Mac for the wonderful intro. Please check out his great video iPodcast, he is very talented and a devoted and very faithful follower of all things Mac.
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Copy and Pasting on a Mac using keyboard shortcut
Use ⌘-c” and “⌘-v
Cut and Paste on a Mac using keyboard shorcut
Use ⌘-x” and “⌘-v
Mac Cheat Sheet: Use this to keep all the information about your Mac in one place.
Using your iPod as a storage drive
Using Disk Utility to back up to a CD or DVD
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Tonight David Sparks from the Macsparky Podcast joins me to talk about the SDK, screencasting and more.
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Screencasting software
Ambrosia Snapz Pro X
ScreenFlow
Places to host your screencasts
Show 68 had some problems with the mp3 file and only 455 of you go it and that’s less than 10% of the usual. Therefore, I apologize to those people, but I am reposting this show now. It is a very good show about what happens when your Mac stops working, and should not be missed do to technical difficulties.
Thanks to Steve Stanger from the MacAttack for another great show.
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