14 DAY TRIAL // Leaving aside the DRM battles raging in Europe, having an iPod is more than just a trend, since for many people, using their iPod every day for multiple purposes turns into a way of life, but this also has some problems of its own. Just think about having a huge music collection and being forced to go on a business trip without having the time required to get home and load your iPod with your favorite tracks, and this is not the only situation that asks for a flexible storage solution, like an Internet server...
Jungle Disk is an application available for the Mac platform that allows you to easily store files and backup data to Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, also known simply as "S3". Available as a Universal Binary application, this program is free to download and use, and you can grab it from Softpedia here. To run this program, you need Mac OS X 10.4 or later, so if everything's fine with you so far, let's get a bit deeper...
Jungle Disk runs on your local machine as a WebDAV server, allowing you to access S3 as a remote disk, and it's a real pleasure to know that there's absolutely no limit to the amount of space that you can use, but everything comes with a price, and the price required to use S3's storage capabilities is 0.15$/GB/month and 0.20$/data transfer.
Drawing the line, it seems that Jungle Disk is a fair solution for people looking for flexibility at any cost, since you should be careful with your S3 data storage costs once your collection grows over a certain limit. The good part is that you get world-wide access to your data, as long as you have an Internet connection available, and you can play your music right from iTunes, by simply dropping your iTunes library to the S3 disk and setting the new iTunes Music folder location!
I really hope that this information will be useful to you, since I know that for a lot of people there's nothing better than enjoying their favorite music wherever they are; this, however, is only the beginning...