{"id":3381,"date":"2017-08-05T23:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:25:21","slug":"tab-sweep-5-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/08\/05\/tab-sweep-5-august-2017","title":{"rendered":"Tab Sweep &#8211; 5 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=16591160011\">Amazon Drive no longer offers unlimited storage<\/a>, with a thread on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14511935\">Hacker News<\/a>. This affected me, since I run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/\">Arq Backup<\/a> to Amazon Cloud Drive. What you really want to do is to ensure you&#8217;re now setting a budget, so that Arq prunes older files. I&#8217;m now using less than 1TB of storage, which is ideal.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Arq, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/arq-5-8-5-for-mac-fixes-a-bad-bug\/\">Arq 5.8.5 for Mac fixes a bad bug<\/a>. This is not what you want to see from a backup tool, but I appreciate the honesty. This is also why my cloud backup strategy is not just Arq+Amazon Cloud Drive; it also includes CrashPlan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/#af9794\">Backblaze<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I like to look at my Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wishlist\/2IRS3MPCDU2T7\/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1\">wish list<\/a> from time to time and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/amazon\/comments\/6d5wo1\/amazon_discontinues_sorting_wish_list_by_price\/\">sort by price<\/a>. This has sadly been discontinued, so you need a little <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewbusche.com\/blog2\/2017\/05\/27\/filtering-amazon-wishlist-items-with-price-drops\/\">bookmarklet<\/a> now to assist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindle.amazon.com\/\">kindle.amazon.com<\/a> is going away. Seems they want you to use Goodreads, and there is a new site for your highlights: <a href=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/notebook\">https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/notebook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Tab%20Sweep%20-%205%20August%202017&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F08%2F05%2Ftab-sweep-5-august-2017&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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