How to Access Your Time Capsule Remotely

Gaining access to all of your files located on your Time Capsule from a remote location/connection is super easy through the use of iCloud and Back to My Mac. There a couple of things you need to configure on both your Mac and your Time Capsule to allow remote access:

Configure your Time Capsule

1. Open Airport Utility

2. Click on your Time Capsule and select Edit

Click on your Time Capsule and then click on Edit

3. Make sure you are on the Base Station tab

4. Below you will see the Back to My Mac option to add your iCloud account

5. Click on the ‘+’ to add your iCloud account name and password and click on Sign In. It may take a minute to activate your account.

Set up your iCloud account here.

6. If you see a green indicator next to your account, everything is okay and we’re ready to move onto the next step. If you’re seeing a red indicator, activation failed. Make sure you have an active internet connection and you are entering the correct iCloud account info.

7. On the Disks tab, make sure that Enable File Sharing is checked (enabled).  This option will already be set if you have access to your Time Capsule’s data on your local network.

8. Click on update to set all the changes you’ve just made.

Configure OSX

1. Open System Preferences

2. Click on iCloud

3. Place a check mark beside the Back to My Mac option and wait for it to activate.

Now, if everything went smoothly, you should be able to see your Time Capsule pop up under Shared Devices in a Finder window both locally and on a remote connection! You’ll be asked for the password to the Time Capsule to view its contents.

New Apple TV in development, could arrive as soon as next month

Hardware Update to the Apple TV Incoming Soon

Metro: Last Light Available to Mac Gamers

4A Games’ latest in the Metro game series is now available to Mac gamers through Steam. It will also be available ‘soon’ in the App Store.

Metro: Last Light also supports Steamplay, so the game can be played on both Windows and Mac OSs.

Metacritic review score: 82/100

http://enterthemetro.com/

Low-quality photos claim to show ‘iPhone 5C’ packaging, color-matched wallpapers

iPhone 5C Packaging Shots

Useful OSX Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can increase your productivity when you aren’t trying to find what you’re looking for in a haystack of menus. The following is a list of some really useful keyboard shortcuts that we find quite useful:

Legend: ⌘ command ⌫ delete ⌥ option  ⌃ control  ⇧ shift ⇥ tab

Sleep – ⌥⌘ + eject

Force quit menu – ⌥⌘ + escape

Close window – ⌘W

Quit application – ⌘Q

Application switcher – ⌘⇥

Force shutdown (without timed warning) – ⌃⌥⌘ + eject

Move selected file to the trash – ⌘⌫

Forward delete text ( a la Windows delete key) – ⌃D

Minimize all open windows – ⌥⌘M

Screen cap entire screen – ⇧⌘3

Screen cap of selected area – ⇧⌘4

Screen cap of single window – ⇧⌘4 + space

Alternatively, you can also create your own custom shortcuts by going to the Apple icon > System Preferences, and click Keyboard. Once there, click on Keyboard Shortcuts, and then click Add (+). The whole guide can be found on Apple’s KB site.

We will be adding more to this list as we go, and feel free to let us know of any shortcuts you guys use regularly in the comments!

SimCity for OSX Now Available

EA’s newest edition to the SimCity family is finally available to Mac users. Nearly five months after the horrible PC launch, the shiny new patched OSX version arrives. Not all is smoothly running in the city though as player are reporting huge graphical issues along with issues with EA’s Origin service.

Hopefully EA won’t take as long this time to fix these issues as they did with the PC version…

The OSX version is available to download as of today on the Origin store.
Those of us who already picked up the PC version are able to download the OSX version as well through Origin.