{"id":1521,"date":"2010-07-19T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2010-07-19T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T13:19:53","slug":"looking-for-an-easier-way-to-manage-your-amazon-s3-accounts-try-cloudberry-s3-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/looking-for-an-easier-way-to-manage-your-amazon-s3-accounts-try-cloudberry-s3-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For An Easier Way To Manage Your Amazon S3 Accounts? Try CloudBerry S3 Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon S3 is a popular choice when it comes to storing and delivering videos. \u00a0But actually managing videos on S3 accounts can be a chore. \u00a0Most people use the free Firefox plugin <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/3247\/\" target=\"_blank\">S3Fox Organizer<\/a><\/strong> to do this. \u00a0But is has plenty of drawbacks, doesn&#8217;t always work correctly and often has to be updated when Firefox is updated. \u00a0There are also a few commercial solutions available. \u00a0I&#8217;ve tried them all and the one I&#8217;ve been using exclusively for the past 6 months or so is called <strong>CloudBerry S3 Explorer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The biggest draw with CloudBerry S3 Explorer is it&#8217;s ease of use<\/strong>. \u00a0It essentially looks and works like FTP software, where you open the program and drag and drop files from your hard drive to your S3 account. \u00a0It makes setting ACL permissions (often a headache with other solutions) just as simple. \u00a0And it also offers multi-threading, which means faster transfers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very flexible too. \u00a0For instance, it also doubles as an FTP client. \u00a0That means you can use it both for managing your S3 accounts and your normal FTP accounts (like for your web host). \u00a0In fact, it even gives you the ability to open multiple tabs&#8230;so you can access your S3 accounts and FTP accounts simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The drawbacks? <\/strong> Just one that I&#8217;ve found so far; <em>no support for Macs<\/em>. \u00a0CloudBerry S3 Explorer is only available for Windows XP\/2003\/Vista\/Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>CloudBerry S3 Explorer is offered in both free and paid versions. \u00a0The free version must be renewed every 3 months and contains lesser functionality than the pro version, which itself only costs $40.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about CloudBerry S3 Explorer and try it yourself by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudberrylab.com\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon S3 is a popular choice when it comes to storing and delivering videos. \u00a0But actually managing videos on S3 accounts can be a chore. \u00a0Most people use the free Firefox plugin S3Fox Organizer to do this. \u00a0But is has plenty of drawbacks, doesn&#8217;t always work correctly and often has to be updated when Firefox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[621,622,620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}