Comments on: Looking For An Easier Way To Manage Your Amazon S3 Accounts? Try CloudBerry S3 Explorer http://webvideouniversity.com/blog/2010/07/19/looking-for-an-easier-way-to-manage-your-amazon-s3-accounts-try-cloudberry-s3-explorer/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:23:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: AS http://webvideouniversity.com/blog/2010/07/19/looking-for-an-easier-way-to-manage-your-amazon-s3-accounts-try-cloudberry-s3-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-1850 AS Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:58:54 +0000 http://webvideouniversity.com/blog/?p=1521#comment-1850 MAC alternatives: http://s3hub.com/ or http://cyberduck.ch/ MAC alternatives:
http://s3hub.com/ or http://cyberduck.ch/

]]> By: Samuel Lawson http://webvideouniversity.com/blog/2010/07/19/looking-for-an-easier-way-to-manage-your-amazon-s3-accounts-try-cloudberry-s3-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-1831 Samuel Lawson Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:54:46 +0000 http://webvideouniversity.com/blog/?p=1521#comment-1831 I'd like to know what you think the drawbacks are. "Plenty" is at best an indefinite exaggeration; the kind people use when they don't feel like doing real research. I'm sure it's a fine programme, but it's a little late to the game and no mac/linux portability is a Fatal Flaw for a developer tool. Even without considering its superior portability, S3Fox still has this beat on all sides. S3Fox always works correctly if users bother to educate themselves about S3 - I've been using it for 6 months with Zero issues. The only tool that works better is Amazon's own control panel. Between that and s3fox, your wasting time on a solution that only works on the one OS that developers don't even trust. It works on every OS and it runs right out of your browser as a free plug-in. It's also "instant on" - no running of programmes and waiting for things to load. You just click "S3 Organizer" and you've got total immediate access to all your S3 storage buckets. But the biggest issue is: S3 is mostly used by developers, and developers use Linux, Mac, and Firefox. Developers have to keep a windows OS around for IE compatibility testing, but that's really all (unless your a dotnet junkie). You've got to understand that developers have a much higher percentage of Mac & Linux use than everyday users - at least 50% according to recent polls. A developer tool that only runs on windows is a waste of code. I’d like to know what you think the drawbacks are. “Plenty” is at best an indefinite exaggeration; the kind people use when they don’t feel like doing real research. I’m sure it’s a fine programme, but it’s a little late to the game and no mac/linux portability is a Fatal Flaw for a developer tool.

Even without considering its superior portability, S3Fox still has this beat on all sides. S3Fox always works correctly if users bother to educate themselves about S3 – I’ve been using it for 6 months with Zero issues. The only tool that works better is Amazon’s own control panel. Between that and s3fox, your wasting time on a solution that only works on the one OS that developers don’t even trust.

It works on every OS and it runs right out of your browser as a free plug-in. It’s also “instant on” – no running of programmes and waiting for things to load. You just click “S3 Organizer” and you’ve got total immediate access to all your S3 storage buckets.

But the biggest issue is: S3 is mostly used by developers, and developers use Linux, Mac, and Firefox. Developers have to keep a windows OS around for IE compatibility testing, but that’s really all (unless your a dotnet junkie). You’ve got to understand that developers have a much higher percentage of Mac & Linux use than everyday users – at least 50% according to recent polls. A developer tool that only runs on windows is a waste of code.

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