gHacks technology news » cache http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Restore Deleted Or Unavailable Websites http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/14/restore-deleted-or-unavailable-websites/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/14/restore-deleted-or-unavailable-websites/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:47:15 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=13558 warrick websitesWeb users have quite a few possibilities to access websites that have been deleted or are temporarily unavailable for some time. Possibilities include using Google Cache, the Web Archive or other web caches that mirror websites. Web caches are great for accessing single pages of a website but not comfortable when multiple pages need to be accessed. It can also happen that webmasters have lost their website in a server crash and need to restore the pages from Internet caches.

Warrick is a Perl script that tries to restore websites from various Internet sources including Archive.org and the three popular search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing. Installation is a bit more complex than running an executable but still doable even for inexperienced users. The computer program is provided as a version for the Windows and Linux / Unix operating system. Windows users need to install a Perl interpreter such as Active Perl before they can run the script from the command line.

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The developers have created a step by step guide for Windows users on how to install and use the script on the operating system. The Warrick website contains examples on how to use the script to restore single pages and entire web projects.

The command “warrick.pl -r -wr ia -c http://yourwebsite.com/” will reconstruct all pages of the website that are stored in at least one of the online sources used in the recovery process.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/14/restore-deleted-or-unavailable-websites/feed/ 4 Move files automatically from the Internet Cache http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/22/move-files-automatically-from-the-internet-cache/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/22/move-files-automatically-from-the-internet-cache/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:01:53 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/22/move-files-automatically-from-the-internet-cache/ It can be sometimes quite handy to automatically move certain types of files from the Internet Cache to another location on your hard drive. I’m especially thinking of multimedia files like movies, music, pictures or flash games. Skrommel created a wonderful application named Cache Sort which observes the Internet Cache and moves files into folders named after their file extension.

The real value of this application is that it is highly customizable. You can basically point it to any folder on your hard drive which you want observed. This can be the Internet Cache of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera but also other folders, say those of P2P applications.

The heart of Cache Sort is the configuration file which can be accessed by right-clicking the Cache Sort icon in the Windows system tray. You can change the folder that is observed in here, the file extensions, if they should be moved or copied, the scan interval, the minimum file size of the files, files that should be ignored and where to put the files.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/22/move-files-automatically-from-the-internet-cache/feed/ 2 View Content of The Page cannot be displayed websites http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/16/view-content-of-the-page-cannot-be-displayed-websites/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/16/view-content-of-the-page-cannot-be-displayed-websites/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:27:32 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/16/view-content-of-the-page-cannot-be-displayed-websites/ Deleted websites is probably not the right catchy phrase that I should use. What I mean is that it happens sometimes that you find a search result in Google or follow a link from another website only to find out that nothing is found. Sometimes the information that has been could be essential. Fortunately for us there is a way to display the contents for most “The Page cannot be displayed” websites.

Even if the contents of a website get deleted they are still accessible through caches which means that we will most likely be able to get everything we need. Most major Search Engines use caches and store information of their crawlers in there. The crawlers report the contents of a website to the Search Engine who stores it in its cache.

Google, Yahoo, Live and Ask all offer a cached version of websites in their search results. Clicking on a cached link will display the content that was last reported by the crawler to the search engine.

Ask: (Click on Cached)
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Google: (Click on Cached)
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Live: (Click on Cached Page)
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Yahoo: (Click on Cached)
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There is another method that I would like to point you at that could work. The Coral Content Distribution network uses its own cache to display websites that are busy, unresponsive or down. To access this you add .nyud.net to the hostname. For ghacks it would mean that you would open the url www.ghacks.net.nyud.net.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/16/view-content-of-the-page-cannot-be-displayed-websites/feed/ 3 Extract Flash Files from Browser Cache http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/13/extract-flash-files-from-browser-cache/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/13/extract-flash-files-from-browser-cache/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:37:53 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/13/extract-flash-files-from-browser-cache/ Whenever I want to save a flash file, like a game or animation that I have been playing / watching, I have to go to the cache folder of Firefox and search for a file with the right extension and size. This is a lot of work if you have either a large cache or want to extract many flash files at once.

A far easier method would be to use the freeware Movie Extractor Scout lite. The Movie Extractor Scout scans the cache of Opera, Internet Explorer and Firefox automatically and create a list of all the flash files that it finds in there. You may watch them once the list has been created, grab the download link or add them to your favorites which means that the file is saved to another place on your hard drive.

You may wonder how you can get those flash files into your cache in the first place. This is really easy, just visit the website and view or play. The file will be automatically transferred to your cache. Some multi file games might not work with Movie Extractor Scout lite but most single ones do.

The developers website has a tutorial on how to create executable files from swf (the flash files) which is great if you want the application to be standalone. (sending to a friend for instance).

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