{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Drive no longer offers unlimited storage, with a thread on Hacker News. This affected me, since I run Arq Backup 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[785,1895,1867,1868,710,1869,1278],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-cloud-drive","tag-arq","tag-backblaze","tag-backup","tag-crashplan","tag-kindle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}