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AirPrint for Mac on Linux

Apple is finally offering printing services from your iOS device, they are marketing this capability as AirPrint and it is in fact an amalgam of a number of existing network technologies. There are some HP printers already configured for AirPrint, but the list is rather short. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use your existing printers to do this?
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Building Your AFP TimeMachine

While it is possible to use a Windows or NFS share for your Apple TimeMachine backups, using the native Apple file sharing protocol (AFP) together with a service like Bonjour to broadcast the file services available you will find yourself with a much better file sharing experience. This tutorial walks you through how to configure your Ubuntu server to serve as an AFP host on your network and then discusses what you will need for TimeMachine to work properly.

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TimeMachine Backups to NFS

There are a number of affordable NAS solutions out there that can provide relatively inexpensive network addressable storage over NFS and SMB. Using a Mac with TimeMachine, an NFS server can be configured to provide storage for all of your backups. This article will walk you through setting this up, with the assumption that you already have the NFS storage device available on your network.

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The Apple Appliance

The introduction of the Apple iPad has engendered a somewhat luke-warm reception. It is a tablet computer about the size of a standard pad of paper, and features a color display with a screen that responds to touch. There are a number of core applications bundled with the device, not the least of which is an e-book reader where you will be able to download many popular books directly from the Apple iTunes store.

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Connecting iPhone to Linux

For anyone with an iPod Touch or iPhone, support on Linux has been somewhat limited until a few months ago. While it was possible to jailbreak your phone, this remains a sensitive and time consuming process. Fortunately, with the work on usbmuxd it is now possible to mount either one of these popular Apple devices on your favorite Linux distribution. There is still some configuration work necessary to piece everything together, but once it is running the support is relatively seamless.

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