During the day I work with images, videos and other largish files, many of which get deleted and need no local backup. I let this slide earlier, thinking Steve J's keep-it-simple strategy made sense. But now I yearn for a backup program that at least lets me set blackout times (say, my usual working hours) where I don't have to deal with manually shutting down an in-progress backup. Or worse, having to reboot everything because the slow-down didn't go away. Before I try this Lifehacker freeware Time Machine tip that Chen has graciously bestowed upon me, I have to ask, am I the only one who feels this way? Or...

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We've actually set up the Time Capsule several different ways already, as the only router in the network, and as an Ethernet-linked node on an existing wireless network. The start-up wizard in AirPort Utility asks you plainly what you want to do, in increasing steps like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. I know some of you don't need that kind of child's play, but this kind of thing will even help you when you tell your mom to get one of these and realize you won't have to do tech support too.
Once you've got it set up, either as your router or a node on your network, you can just pop into Time Machine and see it listed as a drive. If that's all you want, select the drive and you're as good as done. That first dump can be a real doozy though, so keep some things in mind:
• Set aside an entire night to get it done.
• Consider connecting via Ethernet, especially if you have an 802.11b/g Mac. (Time Capsule has Gigabit 10/100/1000Base-T wired connectivity.)
• Try not to interrupt the first dump, as the subsequent file-integrity check will take a long time too.

But say you buy the 500GB Time Capsule, and want to use an external 1TB drive to do all your serious backing up. When you connect it via USB, it is automatically visible in both the AirPort Utility and the Time Machine on your Mac. What you can't do is merge the two to make one massive 1.5TB volume, though. You have to choose one or the other.In some cases, you may want to connect the USB drive you already use for Time Machine to the Time Capsule, to simply make the process wireless. Bear in mind that if you do that, you still have to make the massive initial dump: Time Capsule won't recognize that drive as your previous Time Machine drive, but just as new storage that you can use.

The internal drive and any external drives can be seen as standard network drives, too, across both Mac and PC platforms—checking the guest friendly option in AirPort Utility's disk settings is helpful there. Speaking of PC compatibility, Apple appears to be promoting Time Capsule, at least by word of mouth and in all the support literature, as a dual-platform product, even though its core Time Machine software is not available to Windows users. You can use third-party backup software and select Time Capsule as the target drive, though there are certainly many competing products that will let you do this for cheaper.

The only significant problem I've run into is the networked printer. I connected a printer to Time Capsule that I had set up for local use on my Mac. Time Capsule recognized it immediately, and the printer selection on the Mac itself showed it just fine, but when I went to actually send over a print job, I got an error that the printer was offline. (Eddie Izzard fans would've appreciated the ensuing angry outburst: "Not offline! No. Online. Control-P Print!!") I don't blame Time Capsule yet. I'm going to try it with some other printers soon, and will get to the root of it.

We will continue to test this and alert you to any issues, but in the meantime it's safe to say that this is a worthwhile product for people who have the money and want the convenience. How often do you refuse to connect the USB to your backup drive because it would hamper your style? How often are you afraid, after a long period of not backing up, of the time it may take you to perform a backup. Those issues go away with Time Capsule.

But there's a cost, particularly at the 1TB model, which is $200 more than the $300 500GB model. When we ask about this, all we get back is that these are "server grade" drives. Great, thanks, but we're gonna recommend the 500GB version. If you have 300GB of backup or less you're covered, and if you have 1TB of backup or more, you're better off scoring some massive drive or drive array at discount, and plugging it in via USB. Now go back the #&#;$% up!!! [Time Capsule on Giz]

MacBook Air Full Coverage:
• Details on the New MacBook Air
• Hands on With the New MacBook Air
• Hands on with the Apple Multitouch Gesture Pad
• Adding a 64GB SSD To the MacBook Air? $1300 Extra, Please
• MacBook Air's Fatal Flaw: Battery, RAM, HD Sealed Like an iPod
• Apple's Official 60 Second MacBook Air Tour

Time Capsule:
• Apple Announces Time Capsule Backup Server
• Hands On With the TIme Capsule Backup Server

Apple TV Take Two:
• Apple TV Take 2: $299, No Computer Required, Direct Rentals
• Apple TV Take 2 Impressions

iPhone & iPod touch Firmware Updates:
• iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware Update Gets Official
• Hands on With the 1.1.3 iPhone Firmware
• Apple Adds Mail, Maps and More to iPod Touch For $20

iTunes with Movie Rentals, etc.
• iTunes Movie Rentals Official: Every Major Studio Onboard, 1000 Films Available
• iTunes / iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Live Blog Transcript of Steve Jobs' Macworld 2008 Keynote
• Gizmodo's Live Keynote Coverage

7:39 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Gizmodo Live at Macworld 2008 Keynote. The keynote starts Tuesday, January 15 @ 9:00 AM PST (12:00 PM EST), but we're going to start liveblogging hours before that, giving you color commentary on the area, the attendees, and any secrets we can glean from uncovered banners.

7:59 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen:
We're here! It's dreary as hell (even for San Francisco standards), but we're here, in line, waiting for the keynote to start. There's definitely something in the air, but to us it smells like the pungent desperation of various media types who were forced to wake up at way too early.

8:02 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Crazy. Instead of a Pikmin-like blob of people massed outside the giant aluminum shutters, we've actually got an orderly line.

8:04 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen:
And here's it is. $5 if you can spot Mossy/Waldo.

8:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen:

And since there's no comment field here in the liveblog proper, feel free to discuss the upcoming proceedings over on the other liveblog post.

8:17 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: We see all our normal friends here: Wired, Ars...I guess that's all the people I know. OH, Macrumors. Can't forget them.

8:25 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen:
Someone's excited about what Steve's going to announce today.

8:36 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Top 3 guesses on what's going to be announced today. My guess: new laptop, Apple TV media news and Apple buying out Diebold and leading the way to electronic voting we can trust. Put your guess in the comments.

8:44 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen:
There's Something in the Air Update 1: The orderly line has dissolved into a scene outside Britney's first car-cooter-exposure: everyone's in a mob, pushing each other around with cameras, randomly shooting a shot off hoping to get something worth publishing. What's in the air? Sweat. And greed. And more than a little desperation.

8:46 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Lightning Review. The Gadget: The food.
The Verdict: The orange juice dispensed from a water cooler is classy, but the blueberry scones put it over the top. Definitely worth the money ($0) we paid.

8:59 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Update 2: Mark here, we are trading off the duties of "laptop bitch," making one another hold the computer so we don't need to risk life, limb and foul-smelling crotch on the floor to bring you these updates.

9:03 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: We're in! We've done this many times now, so we can safely say that Coldplay is the band Apple designates as the official soundtrack to the "running of the media" every single time.

9:03 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:05 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: It's 9:02, people are still filing in, so it's going to be a minute or two before the keynote gets started. Can you taste it? CAN YOU SMELL IT!?

9:08 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Steve's added a new song to his playlist this year. Kanye. No one can say Steve Jobs doesn't care about black iPods.

9:13 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Here's a question for you: do you like the Macworld keynote during CES like last year, or after CES like this year?

9:13 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Still no Steve, but Feist's 1 2 3 4 is on. And the lights are dimming! Exciting!

9:14 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Steve's most likely waiting for Feist to end. Nobody cuts off Feist...bitch.

9:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: It's starting! A new Mac vs. PC commercial: Happy New Year 2008. And Steve Jobs takes the stage.

9:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: "Welcome to Macworld 2008. We've got some great stuff for you. There's clearly some great stuff in the air today."

9:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:16 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Steve's taking us on a retrospective of 2007. iPhone, iPod, etc. He's thanking everyone for an extraordinary 2007.

9:17 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:17 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: He has four things he wants to talk to us about today. The first is Leopard. Over 5 million copies sold, and about 20% of Mac OS X's install base has upgraded to Leopard. Now Steve's quoting Mossberg, Pogue, Ed Baig and PC Magazine for quotes on Leopard. Two thumbs up, as it were.

9:17 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:20 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:20 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Time Machine: Leopard works great with a desktop machine, but it doesn't work well with laptops because you have to keep plugging and unplugging a USB drive. Now he's introducing a new backup station with 802.11n and server-grade backup station. It's an AirPort Extreme station with ports in the back, allowing you to back up your macs wirelessly to Time Capsule.

9:21 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:22 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:23 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Time Capsule will be sold in a 500GB version and a 1TB version for $299 and $499. It ships February. It also looks exactly like an Airport Extreme, except with different ports on the back.

9:23 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And that's the first thing! The second thing: The iPhone. Today is exactly the 200th day that the iPhone has been on sale. Apple has sold 4 million iPhones to date, which means 20,000 iPhones sold per day on average. What does this mean compared to the overall smartphone market?

9:26 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:27 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:27 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam: Jobs: Joo! (Boom substitute),

9:27 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And today, he's introducing new iPhone features:
Maps with locations, webclips, customizable home screens, SMS multiple people at once, chapters, subtitles, and language support in video, and lyrics support in audio.

9:30 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Here are the numbers for the iPhone's first full quarter of shipping (Q3 2007). RIM has 39%, Apple has 19.5%, Palm has 9.8%, Motorola has 7.4%. In just one quarter, they managed to grab second place.

9:31 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:31 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:31 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Webclips: On the iPhone's Safari browser, just pick out a website, hit the "+" button, and hit "Add to home screen", and it'll be added as an icon on your home screen. Hit the button from the home screen and it'll fire up Safari and take you there. You can even customize the shortcut to a specific part of the web page.

9:33 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Rearranging icons: Hold down an icon and all the icons on the screen jitter (the leak was right!), allowing you to drag stuff around to rearrange. You can now have 9 different screens to hold all your apps or webclips (internet shortcuts).

9:34 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:35 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: All these updates are available today, for free, for all iPhone users.

9:35 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: So how do you get locations without GPS? Apple's partnering with Google and Skyhook. Google helps you triangulate cellphone towers, and Skyhook helps you triangulate Wi-Fi data. When you go past a Wi-fi hotspot or a cell tower, the phone remembers the data and uses it to calculate where you are.

9:36 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:36 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: How about the iPod touch? They're adding Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather. For existing iPod touch users, it will cost $20. If you buy a new iPod touch, it'll be free and built-in.

9:37 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Multiple recipient SMS: Just as you'd expect. Pick different recipients at the top, type stuff, hit send. It's also customized for the iPhone's "conversations" because it remembers all the recipients under that one "conversation", so you can send multiple messages to the same people easily.

9:38 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: The third thing Steve's talking about today: iTunes. They've sold 4 billion songs, 125 million TV shows and 7 million movies. TV shows and movies have sold more than "everyone else put together", but "did not meet our expectations". "There's a better way to deliver movies over the internet." What is it? iTunes Movie Rentals.

9:38 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Here are the studios involved: Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, New Line, Lion's gate, Fox, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony. What's missing?

9:39 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Steve says "We have every major studio", and that they'll have all the great first-run films.

9:40 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:41 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:41 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: 1000 films by February, and movies will be available 30 days after the DVD release. You can watch them anywhere: Macs, PCs, iPods and iPhone. You can watch instantly, meaning streaming. You'll have 30 days to "start" watching it, and then 24 hours to "finish" watching it once you've started to watch it. You can watch the first half on your computer, transfer the movie to your iPod, then watch the rest of the movie on the airplane. Here's the cost.

B. Lam:

9:43 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Old releases: $2.99. New releases: $3.99.

9:43 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:43 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: iTunes movie rentals launches today, and it's a free software update for iTunes. Free update for iPods and iPhones in order to support this. Support for the US comes today, but international support comes later this year.

9:44 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:44 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:44 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:45 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:46 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: But how about the AppleTV? It was designed to be an accessory for iTunes, but people wanted it to be "movies, movies, movies". Here's AppleTV, take 2. It still syncs with your computer, but no computer is required for AppleTV. You can rent movies directly onto your AppleTV and watch them on your HDTV. You can rent in either SD quality or HD Quality with 5.1 surround sound.

9:46 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:46 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: You can also view audio and video podcasts on the AppleTV, photos from Flickr or .Mac, YouTube videos (>50 Million), Buy TV shows and music (which will be streamed back to your computer), or play iTunes content & photos streamed from your computer.

9:46 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: HD Rentals pricing: $3.99 for old titles and $4.99 for new titles. $1 more than SD.

9:47 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:48 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: There's a new interface for AppleTV (picture coming in a sec). The UI is centered around the movie rental experience.

9:48 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: HD Rentals pricing: $3.99 for old titles and $4.99 for new titles. $1 more than SD.

9:49 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:50 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Steve's demo-ing a sample movie, Blades of Glory. Once you've queued up enough of the movie, AppleTV will pop up a message saying that it's ready to play. He says it usually takes about 30 seconds before something's ready to play.

9:51 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:51 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: He's now showing a scene from Die Hard, featuring Justin Long (the Mac guy).

9:51 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Damn, they cut it off right before Justin Long came in!

9:52 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:54 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:54 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:55 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Now Steve is demoing podcasts and music video downloading. Podcasts queue up and stream just like you'd expect, and music videos work the same way they do on iTunes on your PC.

9:55 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Fake Steve is also liveblogging this AS REAL STEVE, which may or may not blow your mind. Check it out.

9:56 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

9:56 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Slideshows stream directly off the .Mac servers, which means you may be able to view your friends' pictures directly on your TV.

9:58 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

B. Lam:

9:59 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Flickr: You can view a friend's pictures, or even their friends' photos. Of course, this is all set to music from your own iTunes library. Uh oh, tech demo problem alert! No photos, just music. The screen is blank (because of flickr). WE SWEAR IT'S NOT US.

9:59 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam: Boom count: 1

10:00 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:00 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:01 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Apple TV: The new software will be available via free software upgrade, which means you don't need to purchase a new box. Nice!

10:01 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:03 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: New pricing as well. It's $299 now, but they're kicking it down to $229 starting today. They're shipping the free software update to existing owners and new units in just 2 weeks. (Polite applause follows.)

10:06 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: "The first studio that signed up with us for iTunes movie rentals was 20th Century Fox". Now, he's introducing Jim Gianopulos, the Chairman & CEO of Fox. Jim's taking the stage and talking about movies and business.

10:06 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:07 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Non-Steve Jobs intermission, essentially. Jim, the Fox CEO is talking about formats, and business models, and giving people choices. "The next format will be Blu-ray, apparently."

10:08 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: We were right! Jim says his movies will have a free iTunes version of the movie residing on the DVD that you can transfer onto your portable devices by copying it over. The first movie that has this: Family Guy's Blue Harvest, their Star Wars parody episode.

10:08 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And now the fourth thing they want to talk about today. "There's something in the air. What is it?" MacBooks, apparently!

10:08 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:09 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Today they're introducing a third kind of notebook, MacBook Air. "It's the world's thinnest notebook."

10:10 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:10 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: What does this mean? The Sony TZ series are thin. "We looked at all of them out there. They generally weigh about 3 pounds." In Sony's case, it weighs 3 pounds, 0.8-1.2 inches thick, and a 11-12 inch display. They also have miniature keyboards, and they don't "run them as fast as they could."

10:11 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:11 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:12 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Thinness: MacBook air goes from 0.76 inches down to 0.16 inches at the thin end. The thickest part is thinner than the Sony TZ Series. 0.76 vs. 0.8. It's so thin, it even fits inside a vanilla envelope. Steve whips out a manilla envelope.

10:14 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:14 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Out comes the MacBook Air. It's silver (aluminum?), has black keys, is super super thin, and Steve can hold it easily with his fingertips. "It's the world's thinnest notebook," he reiterates. It has a 13.3-inch widescreen display. "And the display is gorgeous." It's an LED backlit display that's instant-on. It also has a built-in iSight camera, and a full-sized keyboard. Backlit too, with a trackpad and multi-touch gesture support on the trackpad.

10:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: You can turn on different types of gestures in the settings, like moving around a window with your finger, panning around a photo with two fingers, rotate a photo by twisting a finger, swipe between photos with three figners, and zoom in and out with pinching.

10:16 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: "How did we fit a Mac in here?"

10:17 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Here's what's inside. 1.8-inch hard drives, like in the iPods. There's also an optional 64GB solid state disk. What else is in there? A complete Mac board, which is a little wider than the length of a pencil.

10:18 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:18 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:19 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Here's the CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Inside, 1.6 GHz standard, with a 1.8GHz upgrade available. Apple asked Intel to shrink their Core 2 Duo processors down to a package 60% smaller in order to fit it inside the MacBook Air. And here's Intel's CEO Paul Otellini to talk about it.

10:19 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:21 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Paul says: The CPU is the width of a dime, the thickness of a nickel, and we didn't think we could do it.

10:21 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: The other features: flip-down door that has USB 2, microDVI port, and a headphone jack. The other side is a MagSafe connector. As for wireless, it's got 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It doesn't have an optical drive internal, but you can buy a separate USB-powered SuperDrive that's especially made for the MacBook Air. $99.

10:22 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:22 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: What do you do with an optical drive? Play movies, install software, make backups, burn CDs. What's Apple's alternative? iTunes movie rentals, Time Capsule for backups, iPods for listening to stuff in your car, and a new feature called "Remote Disc" for installing stuff via CDs and DVDs.

10:22 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:23 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Remote Disc: Special software loaded on other machines with optical drives that allows MacBook Air to borrow their drives to install things from CDs/DVDs. You can even borrow drives from PCs.

10:23 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:25 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Battery life: With Wi-Fi on, browsing the web, you get 5 hours of battery life.

10:25 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:26 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: MacBook Air Price: $1799. Ships in two weeks. You can pre-order online now.

10:26 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:27 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: So to recap, here are the features. 3.0 pounds, 0.16 -0.76 inches, 13.inch display, full-sized keyboard, multi-touch gestures, iSight, 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo standard, 2GB memory standard, 80GB hard drive standard (64GB SSD optional), 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR standard, and MagSafe.

10:27 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Steve just threw up a new ad showing off the MacBook Air, using the same MANILLA envelope technique he used earlier.

10:28 am ON Jan 15 2008
B. Lam:

10:30 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And here are the details on the MacBook Air that eco-fanatics care about. It's got an Aluminum case, and a mercury-free and arsenic-free glass display. The circuit boards are BFR free and PVC free. The packaging has 56% less volume than the regular MacBook. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!

10:30 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: To recap on what he's talked about today. 1) Time Capsule, the wireless backup utility. 2) iPhone update and iPod Touch update. 3) AppleTV + iTunes movie rentals. 4) MacBook Air.

"All this stuff in the first two weeks, and we've got 50 more weeks in the year to go."

10:32 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And for the entertainment at Today's keynote, Randy Newman.

10:36 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Randy's singing a song about America, the president, and comparing them to Hitler and Stalin. USA! USA! USA!!!!!

10:39 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: "It pisses me off a little that the Supreme Court is going to outlive me." What the crap is he singing about? We have no idea. We think he's gone nuts.

10:41 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: The first song's over, but now Randy Newman's just riffing about random stuff. The next song is from Toy Story. Randy says he wrote another song to go with the love scene between Buzz and Woody, but the scene was cut. This guy is blowing our minds right now.

10:43 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Aaaand it's over. Holy crap. Who knew Randy Newman, the guy who makes the songs your kids play over and over and over again, would sing such crazy crap about our government?

11:31 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And it's over! Thanks to everyone for reading, and check Gizmodo's main page for hands-on updates VERY soon. See everyone shortly. -Jason, Mark, Brian and Adrian

11:32 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: We've got hands-on of the MacBook Air here.

11:32 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: We've got hands-on of Time Capsule here as well.

1:26 pm ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: Here's hands-on of the gesture pad on the MacBook Air.

1:30 pm ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And our AppleTV take two impressions.

1:30 pm ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: We also discovered the MacBook Air's fatal flaw.

1:33 pm ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen: And our hands-on video and impressions of the iPhone 1.1.3 firmware.

The Bare Facts:
• After setup, all Macs on network are automatically backed up wirelessly and constantly.
• USB port is so it can act as print server; no word on whether you can attach addional USB disks.
• No hidden bricks: The sleek design includes a built-in power supply.
• Full three-port Gigabit Ethernet router (fourth port is for WAN); 802.11n network supports up to 50 users.

Official Press Release:

Apple Announces Time Capsule

Wireless Backup for all Your Macs

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 15, 2008—Apple® today introduced Time Capsule, a backup appliance that automatically and wirelessly backs up everything on one or more Macs running Leopard™, the latest release of Apple's Mac OS® X operating system including the amazing Time Machine™ automatic backup software. Time Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server grade hard disk in one small package. Simply plug it in, then easily set up automatic wireless backup for every Mac® in your house to a single Time Capsule with just a few clicks. Time Capsule offers the benefits of a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station, and comes in two models: a 500 gigabyte model for just $299 and a 1 terabyte model for just $499.

"Bring Time Capsule home, plug it in, click a few buttons on your Macs and voila—all the Macs in your house are being backed up automatically, every hour of every day," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With Time Capsule and Time Machine, all your irreplaceable photos, movies and documents are automatically protected and incredibly easy to retrieve if they are ever lost."

Built to work seamlessly with Time Machine, Time Capsule lets users wirelessly back up all of the data on their Macs, find lost files and even restore all of their software. In the event a file is lost, users can wirelessly search back through time to find deleted files, applications, photos and other digital media and then instantly restore the file. If it's ever necessary, Leopard can also easily restore an entire system from the Time Machine backup on Time Capsule.

In addition to being the best way to back up a Mac, Time Capsule is also a full-featured Wi-Fi base station with the latest 802.11n technology. Delivering up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g, 802.11n* is built in to Apple's iMac® desktop and the entire Mac notebook line up, including MacBook®, MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Air. Time Capsule features a sleek design with a built-in power supply and connections to print wirelessly to a USB printer. With Time Capsule, it's very easy for users to create a secure, wireless network for up to 50 users and set security restrictions such as Internet access limits for children's computers.

At $299 for a 500GB model and $499 for a 1TB model and a fully integrated 802.11n AirPort Extreme® Base Station, Time Capsule can serve as a backup solution for multiple computers as well as the backbone for a high-speed, 802.11n wireless network, making it effortless and affordable for everyone at home, school or work to protect their digital files.

Additional Time Capsule features include:

dual-band antennas for 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz frequencies;
three Gigabit LAN ports;
one Gigabit Ethernet WAN port;
one USB 2.0 port;
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA-2), 128-bit WEP encryption; and
a built-in NAT firewall supporting NAT-PMP for features like Back to My Mac.
Pricing & Availability
Time Capsule will be available in February through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $299 (US) for a 500GB hard drive and $499 (US) for a 1TB hard drive.

*Time Capsule is based on an IEEE 802.11n draft specification. Actual performance will vary based on range, connection rate, site conditions, size of network and other factors.

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