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Month: May 2011 (page 6 of 6)

How To Mount Inexpensive Amazon S3 Storage As a Local Drive, Using Transmit [Mac]

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Now might not be the time to tout the benefits of Amazon S3, given the recent Amazon cloud storage outage. Still, it is hard to beat Amazon S3 prices. Amazon offers storage at 14 cents per gigabyte for the first terrabyte of storage, and additional charges for transfer in and out. You can get easy access to that storage using a modern FTP client, such as Transmit on the Mac, and even make your S3 storage space show up as a drive on your computer. Here’s how.

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Move Programs, Settings and All, To a New PC With PickMeApp [Windows]

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Ahh, a new computer. Kind of makes you tingle with excitement, right? Perhaps, but you’re probably also thinking about all the work that you have ahead of you when installing all of your apps. We’ve previously talked about ways to download several apps in one bundled download, to help speed along the process, and we’ve covered some tips for upgrading to Windows 7 in a couple of posts. If you want to get even more streamlined, you can move programs, settings and all, from your old PC to your new PC using PickMeApp. Read more