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Apple: Time Capsules!





January 15, 2008 (Macworld) -- Apple Inc. today unveiled Time Capsule, a new product designed as companion hardware to the Time Machine automatic backup feature in OS X 10.5.
Introduced as part of the OS X Leopard upgrade last October, Time Machine automatically backs up the contents of a Mac to an external hard drive.
Time Capsule combines an 802.11n network access point and a hard disk drive. The device is a "full AirPort Extreme base station" -- it bears an uncanny resemblance to Apple's wireless base station -- combined with "a server-grade hard drive," according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.




Time Capsules we all are familiar with what they are and what they do. It sends things to the future by storaing it all the time before, as if it is sent in a time machine. Apple, has created us time capsules that we can always benifit from. For you can store files in a time calpsule then throgh time, get any info you need from it, from the backed-up files of the time capsules (Data, photo, video, multimedias, etc...) wirelessly.



Time Capsule features dual-band antennas for 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz frequencies. It has one USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet and 3Gbit/sec. LAN ports. The device also has a built-in power supply and can connect to print wirelessly from a USB printer, according to Apple. In addition, Time Machine offers Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA-2), 128-bit WEP encryption, and a built-in NAAT firewall that support NAT-PMP for Leopard's Back to My Mac feature.
Time Capsule ships in February in two capacities: a 500GB model for $299, and a 1TB version for $499. Info gotten from: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9057320
Time capsules can be very handy and it is making the Apple company such a great success, which is making them ask for more.



Done By: Mayez Kabbara



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