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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me upload my stuff to Amazon Cloud

by Erica Sadun (May 23rd, 2011)

Dear Auntie TUAW, Amazon gave me a free 10 GB in their cloud to upload my music. It won't all fit since I have about 15 GB of music, so I was wondering if there was a way to upload just certain playlists without have to go to each folder and upload all the songs separately. Perhaps an automator ...

Apple countersues S3 Graphics in patent dispute

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 24th, 2011)

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has countersued S3 Graphics after the company, a maker of graphics-visualization technologies for the notebook and desktop markets, originally sued Apple last June for patent infringement related to a number of Apple's devices, including the iPhone, iPod touch ...

Snow Leopard Services in practice: Amazon S3 uploader

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 6th, 2009)

I stumbled upon a great example of the Snow Leopard Services that I've been drooling over. The S3 Upload Service by August Lilleaas is available as a workflow which can be opened in Automator, so you can examine its inner workings. It uses AppleScript and Ruby, easily passed back and forth thanks to ...

ExpanDrive 2.0 expands to Amazon S3

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 27th, 2009)

I had to do some extensive testing before I got too excited, but after a conversation with the developers I'm pleased to announce that ExpanDrive 2.0 is out. We've mentioned it before, but to recap: ExpanDrive allows you to mount remote servers as drives directly accessible in Finder. With a ...

Jungle Disk 2.0 learns to share

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 24th, 2008)

Jungle Disk, one of the slickest ways to access your Amazon S3 account, has officially updated to version 2.0. I have two words to say: compatibility and bucket. Compatibility buckets are by far my biggest cause for celebration. You see, I have a disorder that doesn't allow me to do things with just ...

Forklift 1.5: fast, pretty and stable.

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 17th, 2008)

Forklift, the split-pane file manager with support for multiple network protocols, is officially at version 1.5 now. We covered the initial release a while back, and we're excited about the progress it's made. With an interface update (Leopard goodness) and some behind-the-scenes tweaks, it's ...

JetS3t offers another option for Amazon S3 access

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 12th, 2008)

At 15¢ per gig, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Solution) is rapidly becoming an online storage standard, with companies like 37Signals and SmugMug storing information adding up to terabytes. On a slightly smaller scale, I transfer a few gigs on S3 every month, both to and from my Mac and ...

Bandwagon iTunes backup revamps pricing plans

by Michael Rose (Mar 2nd, 2007)

As Mat noted a couple weeks ago, the ambitious team at Xackup announced, then thought better of it and retracted, Bandwagon: an unlimited-storage service for iTunes backups to run over your Internet connection. Greedy fiends that we iTunes users are, with visions of multigigabyte libraries dancing ...

S3 Browser

by Scott McNulty (Jan 3rd, 2007)

Backing up your data is important, we all know that. However, backing up is often complicated and if your data isn't backed up and then stored off-site (i.e. not where your computer is) then your back up isn't truly safe. Enter Amazon's S3 service. Amazon has a bevy of computers waiting to hold your ...

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