Entries Tagged 'Amazon' ↓

from Amazon, Amazon S3, is very interesting. It’s very simply API-addressable storage on the internet at a very low rate - 15 cents a month per Gig of storage and 20 cents per Gig of transfer. Am I wrong, or would it be trivially easy for the guy who made my backup software to integrate this into his software in some way so that I could have cheap overnight offsite backups? I know I could use Automator to upload a full backup image to Amazon S3 once a week - which is just what I plan to do.

Web Services today: Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service. Large-scale, addressable online storage for anyone, supported by an API that allows programs to access and integrate the data. At a killer price: $0.15/Gb/Mo storage plus $0.20/Gb for transfer. Michael Arrington has more in Techcrunch.

They suggest that “Search inside the book” results are presented under the “Books” tab on the standard results page, but I tried it and it didn’t work. That’s a pretty tough test so I tried again with a more precise search and it got the book right but not the page that my name appears on.