The Amazon Web Services Developer Connection site has a great tutorial that will show you how to Mount Amazon S3 as a File System in Amazon EC2. S3 is Amazon’s distributed storage service and EC2 is their distributed, virtualized server solution. In the past it was difficult to have persistent storage in EC2, but now using S3, persistent storage is possible. It is critical that Amazon continues to be very aggressive in educating its potential user base, especially as it updates the services. The company is in a position where as time goes on more and more of what I’d refer to as ‘tech laymen’ will have real use for especially the distributed storage service, but first they have to understand just how it can benefit them.
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Safari Screenshot Compatibility Test
Safari Screenshot Compatibility Test is yet another way to test your websites in Safari. The nice feature about this service is that the result is returned in only a couple of seconds. The others I have used take up to a couple of minutes. Whenever I run across a tool that enables website testing over different browsers or versions of browsers I always like to post it here to Digital Media Minute, because testing is such an easy thing to want to avoid, even though it’s so necessary.
I hope that posting time-saving solutions to the ongoing problem of browser testing your sites, even if it is just a screenshot compatibility test like this one, helps my readers.