Use Bucket Explorer for Amazon S3

First of all i would like to introduce the Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is unlimited online storage service. It allows you to upload, download, share and access your data remotely.

One of the good things about S3 is that everything's stored in multiple data centers and make available your data from your nearest data center. You don't really get that if you've got your own server or a regular hosting provider. That's why i like the idea of storing my business data on S3. I am also using s3 for my web images and flash demo movies instead of expansive web server spaces.

But Amazon S3 provides only web service interface for developers thats why Bucket Explorer is developed for all types of users who want to use Amazon S3 services easily.

Bucket Explorer is a FREE platform independent application, which can run on both Microsoft Windows and Linux based operation systems. It is equipped with so many advanced features. like use can;

• easily upload/download files and whole folder structure. Even bucket explorer allows you to upload any file in two modes:
• upload file: if user wants to access any shared file then file will be downloaded on his local drive then open.
  
• upload as html file: In this mode if user wants to access any file, then will be directly open in web browser.
  
• easily share files and folders with other users in two modes
• Share with unlimited time period: In this mode user generate the public url of a file and share with others.
  
• Share with limited time period: In this mode user defines the expiry time of the public url. After expiration of url, user cannot use access the shared file. this type of url is also known as public signed url.
  
• easily track bucket count by using of Bucket Count option, because Amazon S3 allows only 100 bucket for each account.
• easily set user access permissions on buckets and their files and folders.
• easily track data transfer activities on any bucket by using of Bucket Logging. It is also helps you to calculate monthly bill. You can also track those IPs who are accessing your shared data.
• easily Pause and resume your upload/download process , even see the upload progress view. It also support large file upload download.
  

Bucketexplorer.com not only providing window based interface it also provides a user friendly web interface for the Amazon S3 (a Simple Storage Service).

Did you know the full form of jpeg, gif, png and so on

1. JPEG or JPG: Joint Photographic Experts Group (graphics file compression standard)
2. MHTML:multilingual HTML
3. MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group (defines compression standards)
4. GIF: Graphic Interchange Format
5.PNG :Portable Network Graphics (Comparatively better then JPEG and support binary transparency and alpha channel transparency)

installer and installation types?

Silent installation is different from general step by step installation. It runs on command window, It is also classified in two types:

1. Silent
2. Very silent

In Silent, installation progress bar is viewed in command prompt window during installation as like in windows XP start-up.

In Very silent, there is no installation progress bar is viewed.

Disable Image toolbar from web images

To turn the Image Toolbar off for all images in your page, use the following META tag in your page's HEAD section:

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

To control the Image Toolbar on a particular image, use the (non-standard) GALLERYIMG attribute of the IMG element. To turn it off, set the GALLERYIMG to "no" or "false", like so:

<img src="photo.jpg" galleryimg="no">

You can learn more about the Image Toolbar at MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/misc/mypictures/mypictures_ovw.asp

How do I turn off Windows indexing?

How do I turn off Windows indexing?

To disable Indexing Service, follow these steps:

1. Open My Computer.
2. Right-click the Drive icon (perhaps you call it "Local Disk") and select Properties.
3. Remove the checkmark from "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching."
4. Click Apply.
5. Make certain to select "Apply changes to :, subfolders and files."
6. Click OK in the new window.

Also:

1. Click on Start
2. Click on Search
3. Click on "With Indexing Service"
4. (If that is not there, click on "Change Preferences", then "With Indexing Service")
5. Select "No, do not enable Indexing Service"

Windows Search V/S Desktop Search

Actually, Windows 2000 and Windows XP have two ways to search files: a slow way and a fast way.

The slow way is to go into start»Search. It will take several minutes, if not longer, to find the files you are looking for. And, of course, it will not show you extracts like Minalyzer Desktop Search will.

Windows XP also supports the notion of indexing. If you can figure out how to use it, you might be able to perform fast searches.

The problem is that Windows XP is not very friendly with indexing. Windows XP starts indexing at unexpected intervals, and the process of indexing slows your computer to a crawl.

In fact, many Windows experts recommend that you turn off Windows XP indexing. See the Blog for instructions on how to do this.

In contrast, Minalyzer Desktop Search's indexing is friendlier and uses only the processing power available that you are not using.

And, Minalyzer Desktop Search is a lot easier to use.

Need of Log Analysis

Most web servers are providing the log files to the webmasters to track activity of their web sites. These log files saves everything related to website like

• requested page URL
• request date time
• User IP
• requested server IP
• referral URL(from where the page was requested)
• byte served or received details
• user agent type and
• so many other useful client server related information.
  

These all details are combined into a single line for every request and all requests are combined in single file. And every single file contains whole day activity.

But when we discuss about website, then every website runs on world wide so its log files contains too much data. This data is too much for human beings to understand but machines can process this data easily and log/data analysis programs can analyze this data easily and gives you meaning full results.

Minalyzer is one of the products in log analysis market which is specially developed for the webmaster or other administrative person. It helps in efficient web site administration and economic search engine optimization. We can also see some useful use cases of Minalyzer which represents its capability and representation style.

1. Visitor activity for tracking visitor activity.
2. Visitor analysis for spam tracking and junk traffic analysis.
3. Add campaign Analysis.
4. Error Analysis for Broken link analysis, client server performance analysis and so on.

Minalyzer also allows the user to create own reports as per their requirements and export reports in most popular formats for further processing or personal use.