Monthly Archive for July, 2009

Time Machine DOES work with AirPort

Published on Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Time Machine

I just found out re­cently that Time Machine (Apple’s backup util­ity) can again be used on an ex­ter­nal drive plugged to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (Apple’s wire­less router). This fea­ture was lost when Apple came out with Time Capsule, but ap­par­ently came back in a soft­ware up­date in March 2008. Can’t be­lieve I was un­aware for over a year.

I’d give in­struc­tions on how to set this up, but there’s re­ally not much to say. I mean you just plug in the ex­ter­nal HDD via USB to the AirPort Extreme and se­lect it as your Time Machine drive in the Time Machine pref­er­ences. There, I gave instructions.

Read more at other sites: arstechnica.com, macworld.com.

Wednesday's release on Wednesday

Macworld.com did a great job re­port­ing this:

In the af­ter­math of Wednesday’s re­lease of up­dates to Apple’s AirPort Extreme wire­less base sta­tions and Time Machine on Wednesday…

Wednesday’s re­lease of up­dates hap­pened on Wednesday? Really??

Update (July 22): Way too slow. Going back to FireWire.

Fish Harshy, possibly famous

Published on Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Fish Harshy

Fish featured in Louder.cnMy new-​​hire coworker Fish, who took a day off on his sec­ond day and speaks flu­ent English with a British/​Kiwi ac­cent, is a DJ. He does elec­tro or techno or what­ever – it’s all the same to me. His girl­friend said he’s fa­mous here in Shanghai, but I think she only said that so I’d be nicer and stop giv­ing him projects one af­ter an­other. (Not gonna hap­pen.) However he did get fea­tured in Louder.cn, a sis­ter site of SmartShanghai. It’s in Chinese so I can’t read it, but it looks le­git. I took a photo with the weirdo in case he re­ally is fa­mous. These were shot in The Shelter.

Fish in The ShelterFish in The ShelterNo homo

June in photos

Published on Tuesday, July 7, 2009

iPhone pho­tos from last month. All work no play again.

Robert De NiroHaha there’s a store in Shanghai called Robert De Niro.

Greek SaladBeen try­ing Pier 39’s sal­ads. This Greek Salad is not bad. 172 Jinxian Lu.

Must be them EuropeansiS­tock­photo comp im­age, printed on the back of used pa­per, taped on the wall. Come on, MiND Offices… But yeah, peo­ple re­ally gotta stop pee­ing on the floor!

No design budgetSaw this ad in Xujiahui. I guess huge print­ing bud­get but none for a designer.

Apple AuthorisedThis Apple Authorised Service Provider is pretty good. Replaced my MBP’s moth­er­board in three days. ServiceOne, 021‑5490-​​0210, 41 Caoxi Bei Lu (North Caoxi Road) in Huijia Dasha (汇嘉大厦), Rm 2107.

Douchebag collarDouchebag col­lars seem to be pop­u­lar in Shanghai these days.

GayGay.

Last to leave againI’m reg­u­larly the last one to leave the of­fice. Sucks.

Looking for­ward to the day when I can blog more than once per month again.