Anyone back-up iTunes or iPhoto using new TC?

Just curious if anyone has used it to back up those applications. That is the main reason why I have bought the TC. Wireless access for the whole family to iPhoto and Itunes. ??

You are actually referring to two different things:
1. backup up applications (and presumably data). The purpose of backing up applications and data to a different drive (like the Time Capsule) is to provide a place to restore this data from if something happened to this information on your Mac (for example, the hard drive fails). The Time Machine application in MacOS 10.5 will do these backups to the Time Capsule for you automatically. Keep in mind these are backups - and the backup data is not intended nor is it easily available for "sharing" with other computers on your home network.
2. wireless access for the whole family to iPhoto and iTunes. This is a very different usage for the Time Capsule. In this case, you would copy the iTunes and/or iPhoto data files to the Time Capsule, and make the shared library available to users of the iPhone and iTunes application running on other computers on your home network. You need to copy those files - this is not a function of the Time Machine backup application.

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