Tag: extensions
Google Wave Extensions Gallery: A Single Place to Find Great Wave Extensions
by neetika on Mar.15, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies, Trends
One of Google Wave’s more powerful features is its extensions—small gadgets and doodads you can embed or include in waves to add great functionality. They used to be particularly difficult to hunt down and install, but no more.
The new Extensions gallery (found by clicking Extensions in the navigation panel) takes a lot of pain out of finding and installing a new Wave extension. It doesn’t have all of our favorite gadgets, but it’s a good start. Unfortunately there’s still no easy way to install a gadget that isn’t included in the gallery, but this method should still work if you want to install such a gadget. In the meantime, it’s good to see Wave making it easier for regular users to find and enjoy new gadgets.
Recover Recently Deleted Web Content via Your Browser’s Cache
by neetika on Feb.23, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies
Ever seen a picture online that you’re kicking yourself for not saving, especially now that it’s been removed? There’s a good chance it may still be saved on your computer; all you need to do is familiarize yourself with your browser’s cache.
Front page photo by Jeffrey Beall
Covering resurrecting images from your browser cache and highlighting how to recover images in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari, but the browser landscape has changed a little. Luckily, recovering images from Firefox hasn’t really changed, and popular alternatives like Chrome and Opera all have similar recovery methods. In Firefox, it works the same
- Type
about:cachein the address bar. - Under “Disk Cache Device,” copy the folder path to where Firefox stores your cache entries.
- Navigate to that folder in Windows Explorer or Finder. The files there will have strange names and no extension, so it can take some time, but you just have to open each one to see if it’s the photo in question.
Did your friend recently delete a picture on Facebook? Maybe something you really liked but she didn’t? OR maybe something really embarrassing that you weren’t able to see?
Well, if your friend deleted it within the past 7 days and it was viewed by you or another friend, chances are you should be able to see it, still. And It’s still on Facebook’s servers.
What you can do is open your browser’s cache and look for it there. If you have Google Chrome, you can go to about:cache and search for it there. Of course there are a zillion files in there; you can narrow it down by using find. Facebook’s pictures usually end in _n.jpg, so search for those and go through them manually. Once you find it, you can copy the link and open it in your browser. TADA! You can now see that “deleted” picture.
Of course, those pictures aren’t there forever. But you still have time to pass it around or use it as blackmail (not that you actually will, right?).
So yeah, you can probably do that at other sites, so go try it yourself.
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