Slightly off-topic, but can you hook a hard drive up to an airport base station and have it available to computers on the network? In other words, could you just tuck a hard drive away in the closet, but still have your MacBook hooked up to a TimeMachine backup drive whenever you're at home? I'd like to use TimeMachine, but I have no interest in lugging an external hard drive all around the house.
If it's a network drive, yes. A standard drive might work if plugged into the USB port, or it might not. Eevn if it did, it would be slow. Network drives come with Ethernet ports.
"Reason" wasn't a good choice of words. What I meant was, I doubt Apple will make the dialogue box appear with every drive you connect once you already have a dedicated Time Machine drive configured.
"Reason" wasn't a good choice of words. What I meant was, I doubt Apple will make the dialogue box appear with every drive you connect once you already have a dedicated Time Machine drive configured.
If it's a network drive, yes. A standard drive might work if plugged into the USB port, or it might not. Eevn if it did, it would be slow. Network drives come with Ethernet ports.
I don't think the AirPort Express has any support for USB mass storage devices. It'll deliver power (e.g., charge an iPod), but it won't share the device to computers.
I don't think the AirPort Express has any support for USB mass storage devices. It'll deliver power (e.g., charge an iPod), but it won't share the device to computers.
But yeah, network drives will work, of course.
I think it's for printers. I've never had one myself.
Yeah, it's intended for printers. (I don't have one either, though.)
Would be interesting to have support extended for other types of devices. Say, uh, scanners.
I often thought this but as they can't even sell AirPort's in the EU any more; and the fact this technology is really old I doubt Apple would bother to implement. AirPort needs to include a broadband modem to be competitive with the extremely good Netgear routers.
I often thought this but as they can't even sell AirPort's in the EU any more; and the fact this technology is really old I doubt Apple would bother to implement. AirPort needs to include a broadband modem to be competitive with the extremely good Netgear routers.
It's just a matter of ROH compliance. Units in the stores can still be sold. All that has to be done is to replace the non-compliant components with compliant ones. My component catalogs have been offering both for a while now.
It's just firmware. No big deal, if Apple wanted to bother.
Oh I know it's not difficult to implement the EU regulations, Apple obviously don't see the need to. I'm just curious as to whether we see a new AirPort in the next year or so.
Oh I know it's not difficult to implement the EU regulations, Apple obviously don't see the need to. I'm just curious as to whether we see a new AirPort in the next year or so.
I'm pretty sure we'll see something. but whether that something is the iTv, which seems to have gotten a name, though I already forgot what that is, or something else, is a question as well.
QuickLook *could* be useful if it was toggleable and you'd get an Aperture-type loupe that would follow your cursor around, and when you're hovering over documents, the actual document would display in the loupe...
...otherwise it would be garbage.
The other problem is getting this thing to preview documents at a reasonable speed...which is probably never gonna happen unless some small portion of the document was captured to PDF and cached. But still...a folder with 200 documents would slow to a crawl as the Finder attempts to cache all document previews.
Agreed, it could be difficult to implement but I find the slideshow useful at the moment - QuickLook is useful when you've forgotten what a file is, although how this differs from column view is in-apparent to me. An Aperture loupe tool could be useful - but resource hungry.
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Assumption #1.
But that is exactly the assumption we are getting from Apple, if it is true, as we have been discussing.
Assumption #2.
As above.
No thanks.
Me too.
I really don't understand where they are heading with this quick look feature.
There's your entire post.
Until we learn more we have NO idea where they are going with this, or even what it is.
1) I don't see a reason for the Time Machine dialogue box to appear if you already have a HDD setup for use with Time Machine.
This is what we've been saying.
Slightly off-topic, but can you hook a hard drive up to an airport base station and have it available to computers on the network? In other words, could you just tuck a hard drive away in the closet, but still have your MacBook hooked up to a TimeMachine backup drive whenever you're at home? I'd like to use TimeMachine, but I have no interest in lugging an external hard drive all around the house.
If it's a network drive, yes. A standard drive might work if plugged into the USB port, or it might not. Eevn if it did, it would be slow. Network drives come with Ethernet ports.
There's your entire post.
Until we learn more we have NO idea where they are going with this, or even what it is.
It's how Time Machine displays previews while you're flying through time.
This is what we've been saying.
"Reason" wasn't a good choice of words. What I meant was, I doubt Apple will make the dialogue box appear with every drive you connect once you already have a dedicated Time Machine drive configured.
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I mean, little people porn widget...no wait, it doesn't have the same ring to it,
"Reason" wasn't a good choice of words. What I meant was, I doubt Apple will make the dialogue box appear with every drive you connect once you already have a dedicated Time Machine drive configured.
Right, that's what we've been saying.
If it's a network drive, yes. A standard drive might work if plugged into the USB port, or it might not. Eevn if it did, it would be slow. Network drives come with Ethernet ports.
I don't think the AirPort Express has any support for USB mass storage devices. It'll deliver power (e.g., charge an iPod), but it won't share the device to computers.
But yeah, network drives will work, of course.
I don't think the AirPort Express has any support for USB mass storage devices. It'll deliver power (e.g., charge an iPod), but it won't share the device to computers.
But yeah, network drives will work, of course.
I think it's for printers. I've never had one myself.
I think it's for printers. I've never had one myself.
Yeah, it's intended for printers. (I don't have one either, though.)
Would be interesting to have support extended for other types of devices. Say, uh, scanners.
Will probably break a lot of GUIs, and once again we will be waiting forever for MS and Adobe.
Yeah, it's intended for printers. (I don't have one either, though.)
Would be interesting to have support extended for other types of devices. Say, uh, scanners.
I often thought this but as they can't even sell AirPort's in the EU any more; and the fact this technology is really old I doubt Apple would bother to implement. AirPort needs to include a broadband modem to be competitive with the extremely good Netgear routers.
Yeah, it's intended for printers. (I don't have one either, though.)
Would be interesting to have support extended for other types of devices. Say, uh, scanners.
It's probably just a firmware update away. But, that's a long way away.
I often thought this but as they can't even sell AirPort's in the EU any more; and the fact this technology is really old I doubt Apple would bother to implement. AirPort needs to include a broadband modem to be competitive with the extremely good Netgear routers.
It's just a matter of ROH compliance. Units in the stores can still be sold. All that has to be done is to replace the non-compliant components with compliant ones. My component catalogs have been offering both for a while now.
It's just firmware. No big deal, if Apple wanted to bother.
Oh I know it's not difficult to implement the EU regulations, Apple obviously don't see the need to. I'm just curious as to whether we see a new AirPort in the next year or so.
I'm pretty sure we'll see something. but whether that something is the iTv, which seems to have gotten a name, though I already forgot what that is, or something else, is a question as well.
...otherwise it would be garbage.
The other problem is getting this thing to preview documents at a reasonable speed...which is probably never gonna happen unless some small portion of the document was captured to PDF and cached. But still...a folder with 200 documents would slow to a crawl as the Finder attempts to cache all document previews.