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Apple has introduced Time Capsule , a wireless device that is an awesome product designed as companion hardware to the Time Machine automatic backup feature. With Time Capsule , users will be able to go back through archived backups to find lost files, photos, digital media, and other data. Once the missing file is found, users can restore it wireless from Time Capsule; they can also restore an entire system from a Time Machine backup stored on the device. Features & Pricing If you are interested in analysing its technical specifications then let me mention it here: Time Capsule features dual-band antennas for 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequencies. It has one USB 2.0, one Gigabit Ethernet, and three Gigabit LAN ports. It can connect to print wirelessly from a USB printer. Time Machine offers Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA-2). If you are keen about its security then for your information Apple reveals that it meets 128-bit WEP encryption. Apple has set price that will make you think once bef...

Time Machine: Smartest Application in Mac OS X. What Apple states it: " Time Machine is a backup utility, not an archival utility, it is not intended as offline storage. Time Machine captures the most recent state of your data on your disk. As snapshots age, they are prioritized progressively lower compared to your more recent ones." Using simple words, it can be stated as an application to back up files on your machine on the same or an external hard drive (USB or Firewire ), which later on can be used to retrieve deleted or lost files. When time machine starts it copies each and every file leaving the caches on your machine to the selected drive, which you can call as back up drive. It copies all the files in it original state without compressing it, so that when required it could turn your Mac in its original state. Time Machine keeps backing up files at regular intervals after the first back up that is termed as incremental backup, while doing this 'incremental/foll...