Ive recently got me a samson audio microphone complete with pop filter for recording screencasts for oentries. As a side note screencasting for the mac is pretty good for explaining how to make screencasts on the cheap.

After making your screencast, they are a considerable size. Theres no point hammering your wee vps or shared server delivering this content. Its a better plan to rely on Amazon S3 to do this for you.

A quick easy way to do this is to get the s3fox firefox extension to upload your media files. Its pretty good but still a bit flaky.

• Create a new bucket (you need to do this through command line api)
• Go into S3 Fox open the bucket and upload your files.
• Right click on the files and set them to be publicly viewable.
• They are now available on http://s3.amazonaws.com/[bucket_name]/

Now your app webserver can sleep happy and spend its time dealing with app requests.

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