As I’m sure many of you will remember, a few months ago Gear Diary suffered a server crash, and a whole lot of data was lost. Fortunately, some of the data (reviews mainly) was stored in Google Cache, a fabulous little repository of lost websites. Whilst very handy for recovery, it’s can also be of use when a website is down for maintenance or their server is temporarily offline.

Today I was trying to look up some information on XDA-Developers, and I found that they are having some kind of service difficulties. I was able to get to the page I wanted to view using a search on Google, then clicking the “Cached” button below the search result. Now while that is pretty easy, surfing between pages on the site can be a bit of a pain.

Gear Diary Viewing a Site When The Servers Down photo

Since I use Firefox I figure someone will have created an ingenious little extension that takes advantage of Google Cache for surfing, and that was exactly what I found. Called CacheIt!, the extension let you right click on a link and view the last cache, or snapshot, of that page that Google took when crawling around the web for search results. Very useful if the site you need to access is down (or no longer exists).

It’s also compatible with Firefox 3!

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Mitchell Oke is a 23 year old Bachelor of Creative Technology (Digital Video Production) from Sydney, Australia. He's previously worked for News Ltd as a Multimedia Producer, and currently works as a freelance editor and videographer. He has a great love for gadgets and cars, always wanting to have the latest and greatest phones, notebooks and other electronic toys. He is a huge fan of Star Trek, Top Gear and Seinfeld, citing them as his favourite TV shows. In December 2006 he became a Mac convert, having used Windows since he was 5.


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