05 September 2009 ~ View Comments

Use Time Machine with Wake on LAN to Enable Network Backups to Sleeping Devices

Update Sept 6, 2009: I’ve created a project at github to simplify this process. More details here. Task: You want to use Time Machine wirelessly to backup your Mac to a drive on another Mac on your network. Problem: If the target machine is in “sleep” mode, your backup will fail. Solution: Send a “magic [...]

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24 October 2008 ~ View Comments

Keep Your Play Counts and Statistics When Moving Your iTunes Library

If you’re an iTunes user who doesn’t let iTunes manage your music collection, you’ll find that iTunes isn’t very cooperative when it comes to moving your music around. For example, if you decide you want to move your music from your internal drive to an external drive, you’ll find that you have to re-import your [...]

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