Apple Hot News 30-Jan-2012
How to Create a Time Machine Backup to a Network Drive in Lion
Let’s say you have a home NAS (Network Area Storage), a router with a hard drive, or even an old Windows machine with a lot of disk space lying around. You want to make use of this disk space to store your Time Machine backups. You open Time Machine Preferences and the only way you can add a non-local disk is via a Time Capsule or AirPort-connected storage. Now what? If this is your problem and you have upgraded to Mac OS X Lion, there is a workaround… Keep reading.
Resonate Update – Episode Two
This update shows Resonate’s tweet projection feature. When the iPad’s video-out cable is connected (in other words, VGA or HDMI output), it will display a special screen just for projecting tweets and separate from what the operator see on the iPad’s built-in display. The external display shows either the main timeline or a timeline of a Twitter list, a saved search, or a custom (ad-hoc) search. In addition you can set a heading and subheading to show at the top of the projector’s screen.
Fund Watch received a takedown notice
We have just received notice from Ma Qian Cheng from iFast Financials to remove Fund Watch from the App Store. Because of this notice, we have no choice but to comply and remove Fund Watch from sale.
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Kudos on Tweet Marker’s Eddy
Congratulations to Manton Reece having won a Macworld Eddy for Tweet Marker, his tweet last-read service. Indeed Tweet Marker is essentially a stop gap of what Twitter should include in the API. But it looks like they choose not to provide this and Manton have stepped up for the challenge.
Resonate Update – Episode One
An update of Resonate – our upcoming Twitter client in development. This one shows how Resonate will aggregate tweets inside word clouds so that you can easily see trending topics in your world and jump in to interesting conversations.
Resonate marketing site 2.0
We’ve just revised Resonate’s marketing site. After a number of researching, pivoting, and contemplating, we’ve settled to design Resonate as a Twitter client for use primarily by educators.