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We just bought ourselves one of those shiny Time Capsules from Apple. I don’t know how it’s working with PCs, but on the Mac side, I can tell you that it rocks.

For those who don’t know what Time Capsule is: it’s a wifi base station with an integrated hard drive (in our case 1 TB). It works flawlessly with Time Machine, a backup application that’s baked into Mac OS X, the operating system that comes on any Mac computer.

The concept is pretty simple. You set up Time Capsule as a wireless network and when that’s done you can access it from any Mac nearby. When connected you can transfer files wirelessly to and from Time Capsule.

The best part is that your Mac will then automatically ask if you want to use the wireless hard disk with Time Machine to backup all your files. If you then click “Yes”, you’re done! The first backup will take some time to transfer, but after that, Time Machine will automaticaly trace any changes that are made on your computer and mirror them every hour onto your “Air” disk.

File recovery couldn’t be easier than with Time Machine. You just open the folder where your lost file(s) used to be, you click on the Time Machine icon and you can literally go back in time to retrieve it/them. Also, when you lose the whole contents of your hard drive, you can use Time machine to restore it completely on a new one, so you can just continue where you had left.

And wait, there’s more! You can also hook up a printer or a second USB hard drive to Time Capsule to print or to share files from any computer within range.

I’m convinced it will be sparing us a whole lot of trouble in the future! More info on Time Capsule can be found on the Apple web site.