Category OS X

Scheduling Time Machine Backups with AppleScript and iCal

Great news to all Time Machine users! It’s actually possible to schedule when you allow backups to happen. Problem has been that Time Machine tends to go on at times when it’s really not that convenient; when your working on something heavy and don’t want the extra CPU usage or when you need to [...]

Aperture and Time Machine not Sitting in a Tree

Hope Apple fixes this quickly.
After getting a Time Capsule, I’ve started liking Time Machine again. No need to plug in a cable makes a massive difference. Difference between remembering to use it sometimes (I used to share a drive with Darina) and not having to remember to use it, ever.
However, Time Machine doesn’t seem to [...]

Disk Encryption

Just posted a new episode on RND Cast. Be sure to check it out as it’s about a very topical subject, data encryption!
–kristian
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AppleScript To Connect To Your Time Machine Backup

Time Machine, no matter how some might say it’s only meant for grandmothers and alike, is so simple and secure to use, it’s would be silly not to. Even if only as an extra layer of data security
For me, the ideal setup is that the Time Machine backup drive lives on my home network rather [...]

Bit More on Leopard Guest Accounts

Another thing I found about Leopard Guest Accounts while I was researching on my previous post about the logs: It’s really easy to change the default which is used to make this account.
Say you want a certain document or a link to a website to appear on the Desktop each time a new user logs [...]