diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 4a000b28d2..d5bc557537 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -19,22 +19,26 @@
 
 Overview:
  
-jclouds is an open source framework that helps you get started in the cloud
+jclouds is an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud
 and reuse your java and clojure development skills. Our api allows you to 
-freedom to use portable abstractions or cloud-specific features.
+freedom to use portable abstractions or cloud-specific features.  We have
+two abstractions at the moment: compute and blobstore.  compute helps you
+bootstrap machines in the cloud.  blobstore helps you manage key-value
+data.
  
 our current version is 1.0-beta-7
 our dev version is 1.0-SNAPSHOT
  
-our compute api supports: ec2, gogrid, rackspace, rimuhosting, vcloud, trmk-ecloud, 
-                          trmk-vcloudexpress, eucalyptus, bluelock-vclouddirector,
-                          bluelock-vcloudexpress, slicehost, stub (in-memory)
+our compute api supports: ec2, gogrid, cloudservers (rackspace), rimuhosting, vcloud,
+                          trmk-ecloud, trmk-vcloudexpress, eucalyptus,
+                          bluelock-vclouddirector, slicehost, stub (in-memory)
 
   * note * the pom dependency org.jclouds/jclouds-allcompute gives you access to
            to all of these providers
 
-our blobstore api supports: s3, rackspace, azure, atmos online, att synaptic,
-                          walrus, googlestorage, transient (in-memory), filesystem (on-disk)
+our blobstore api supports: s3, cloudfiles (rackspace), azurestorage, atmosonline,
+                            synaptic, peer1-storage, walrus, googlestorage, 
+                            transient (in-memory), filesystem (on-disk)
  
   * note * the pom dependency org.jclouds/jclouds-allblobstore gives you access to
            to all of these providers
diff --git a/atmos/pom.xml b/atmos/pom.xml
index aec222e1a4..3846cd76dd 100644
--- a/atmos/pom.xml
+++ b/atmos/pom.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
         <test.atmosonline.apiversion>1.3.0</test.atmosonline.apiversion>
         <test.atmosonline.identity>FIXME</test.atmosonline.identity>
         <test.atmosonline.credential>FIXME</test.atmosonline.credential>
+        <test.peer1-storage.endpoint>https://cloudonestorage.peer1.com</test.peer1-storage.endpoint>
+        <test.peer1-storage.apiversion>1.3.0</test.peer1-storage.apiversion>
+        <test.peer1-storage.identity>FIXME</test.peer1-storage.identity>
+        <test.peer1-storage.credential>FIXME</test.peer1-storage.credential>
         <test.synaptic.endpoint>https://storage.synaptic.att.com</test.synaptic.endpoint>
         <test.synaptic.apiversion>1.3.0</test.synaptic.apiversion>
         <test.synaptic.identity>FIXME</test.synaptic.identity>
@@ -107,6 +111,22 @@
                                             <name>test.atmosonline.credential</name>
                                             <value>${test.atmosonline.credential}</value>
                                         </property>
+                                        <property>
+                                            <name>test.peer1-storage.endpoint</name>
+                                            <value>${test.peer1-storage.endpoint}</value>
+                                        </property>
+                                        <property>
+                                            <name>test.peer1-storage.apiversion</name>
+                                            <value>${test.peer1-storage.apiversion}</value>
+                                        </property>
+                                        <property>
+                                            <name>test.peer1-storage.identity</name>
+                                            <value>${test.peer1-storage.identity}</value>
+                                        </property>
+                                        <property>
+                                            <name>test.peer1-storage.credential</name>
+                                            <value>${test.peer1-storage.credential}</value>
+                                        </property>
                                         <property>
                                             <name>test.synaptic.endpoint</name>
                                             <value>${test.synaptic.endpoint}</value>
diff --git a/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClient.java b/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClient.java
index 2ba7495fb2..ec9a939907 100644
--- a/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClient.java
+++ b/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClient.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import javax.ws.rs.POST;
 import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
 import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
+import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
 
 import org.jclouds.atmosonline.saas.binders.BindMetadataToHeaders;
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ public interface AtmosStorageAsyncClient {
    @POST
    @Path("/{directoryName}/")
    @ExceptionParser(ReturnEndpointIfAlreadyExists.class)
+   @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
    @Consumes(MediaType.WILDCARD)
    ListenableFuture<URI> createDirectory(@PathParam("directoryName") String directoryName);
 
diff --git a/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/filters/SignRequest.java b/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/filters/SignRequest.java
index 861f84ed80..23a5ef0c3e 100644
--- a/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/filters/SignRequest.java
+++ b/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/filters/SignRequest.java
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public class SignRequest implements HttpRequestFilter {
       // TreeSet == Sort the headers alphabetically.
       Set<String> headers = new TreeSet<String>(request.getHeaders().keySet());
       for (String header : headers) {
-         if (header.startsWith("x-emc-")) {
+         if (header.startsWith("x-emc-") && !header.equals(AtmosStorageHeaders.SIGNATURE)) {
             // Convert all header names to lowercase.
             toSign.append(header.toLowerCase()).append(":");
             // For headers with values that span multiple lines, convert them into one line by
diff --git a/atmos/src/test/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClientTest.java b/atmos/src/test/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClientTest.java
index d30356c52c..14a229ef48 100644
--- a/atmos/src/test/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClientTest.java
+++ b/atmos/src/test/java/org/jclouds/atmosonline/saas/AtmosStorageAsyncClientTest.java
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ public class AtmosStorageAsyncClientTest extends RestClientTest<AtmosStorageAsyn
 
       assertRequestLineEquals(request, "POST https://accesspoint.atmosonline.com/rest/namespace/dir/ HTTP/1.1");
       assertNonPayloadHeadersEqual(request, HttpHeaders.ACCEPT + ": */*\n");
-      assertPayloadEquals(request, null, null, false);
+      assertPayloadEquals(request, "", "application/octet-stream", false);
 
       assertResponseParserClassEquals(method, request, ParseURIFromListOrLocationHeaderIf20x.class);
       assertSaxResponseParserClassEquals(method, null);
diff --git a/blobstore/src/main/clojure/org/jclouds/blobstore.clj b/blobstore/src/main/clojure/org/jclouds/blobstore.clj
index 8b626ff69a..3807697c1a 100644
--- a/blobstore/src/main/clojure/org/jclouds/blobstore.clj
+++ b/blobstore/src/main/clojure/org/jclouds/blobstore.clj
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
   "A clojure binding for the jclouds BlobStore.
 
 Current supported services are:
-   [transient, filesystem, s3, azureblob, atmos, cloudfiles, walrus, googlestorage]
+   [transient, filesystem, s3, azureblob, atmos, cloudfiles, walrus,
+    googlestorage, synaptic, peer1-storage]
 
 Here's a quick example of how to viewresources in rackspace
 
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessor.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessor.java
index 4ee32f93f4..3b61dd877a 100755
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessor.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessor.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import static com.google.common.collect.Sets.difference;
 import static com.google.common.collect.Sets.newHashSet;
 import static com.google.common.collect.Sets.newTreeSet;
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-import static javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders.ACCEPT;
+import static javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders.*;
 import static javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE;
 import static javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders.HOST;
 import static org.jclouds.http.HttpUtils.makeQueryLine;
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ import org.jclouds.rest.functions.MapHttp4xxCodesToExceptions;
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
 import com.google.common.collect.LinkedHashMultimap;
 import com.google.common.collect.LinkedListMultimap;
 import com.google.common.collect.MapMaker;
@@ -470,6 +471,9 @@ public class RestAnnotationProcessor<T> {
          payload = new MultipartForm(BOUNDARY, parts);
       } else if (formParams.size() > 0) {
          payload = Payloads.newUrlEncodedFormPayload(formParams, skips);
+      } else if (headers.containsKey(CONTENT_TYPE)) {
+         payload = Payloads.newByteArrayPayload(new byte[]{});
+         payload.getContentMetadata().setContentType(Iterables.get(headers.get(CONTENT_TYPE),0));
       }
       if (payload != null) {
          request.setPayload(payload);
diff --git a/core/src/main/resources/rest.properties b/core/src/main/resources/rest.properties
index 32844739b3..7fb01d36cc 100644
--- a/core/src/main/resources/rest.properties
+++ b/core/src/main/resources/rest.properties
@@ -104,7 +104,11 @@ synaptic.contextbuilder=org.jclouds.atmosonline.saas.AtmosStorageContextBuilder
 synaptic.endpoint=https://storage.synaptic.att.com
 synaptic.apiversion=1.3.0
 
-# TODO peer1 and hostedsolutions use atmos
+peer1-storage.contextbuilder=org.jclouds.atmosonline.saas.AtmosStorageContextBuilder
+peer1-storage.endpoint=https://storage.synaptic.att.com
+peer1-storage.apiversion=1.3.0
+
+# TODO hostedsolutions use atmos
 
 cloudfiles.contextbuilder=org.jclouds.rackspace.cloudfiles.CloudFilesContextBuilder
 cloudfiles.propertiesbuilder=org.jclouds.rackspace.cloudfiles.CloudFilesPropertiesBuilder
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessorTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessorTest.java
index 7b2d4fa9f0..b107347cb6 100755
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessorTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/rest/internal/RestAnnotationProcessorTest.java
@@ -373,10 +373,22 @@ public class RestAnnotationProcessorTest extends BaseRestClientTest {
       @POST
       @Path("")
       public void post(HttpRequestOptions options);
-
+      
+      @POST
+      @Path("")
+      @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
+      public void post();
    }
 
    public void testHttpRequestOptionsPayloadParam() throws SecurityException, NoSuchMethodException, IOException {
+      Method method = TestPayloadParamVarargs.class.getMethod("post");
+      HttpRequest request = factory(TestQuery.class).createRequest(method);
+      assertRequestLineEquals(request, "POST http://localhost:9999?x-ms-version=2009-07-17 HTTP/1.1");
+      assertNonPayloadHeadersEqual(request, "");
+      assertPayloadEquals(request, "", "application/octet-stream", false);
+   }
+   
+   public void testHttpRequestWithOnlyContentType() throws SecurityException, NoSuchMethodException, IOException {
       Method method = TestPayloadParamVarargs.class.getMethod("post", HttpRequestOptions.class);
       verifyTestPostOptions(method);
    }