Access Text-Only Google Cache For Any Website Link Directly

i like the plain text version of google cache, it is very bandwidh effective, and positioning of text is pretty good.

here is a method of quickly fetching google cache for any valid link using firefox.

bookmark any of the two links given below.
[for normal cache]
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:%s
[for text-only cache]
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:%s&strip=1

set the keyword of bookmark as cache or something of your choice.

after doing it, open a new tab, and type "cache http://www.yahoo.com", and you would reach google cache directly.
NOTE: you need to type complete url in including http://

what happens here is, %s in your bookmark accepts the weblink provided by you.
addition of parameter strip=1 give you pure text-only version

Pptview Opens Ppt Faster Than Openoffice.org Impress

i was having great trouble opening and viewing ppt files in ooimpress (openoffice.org impress).

first, the file took long time to open, bad but still manageable.
second, slide changing was terribly slow (3-5 seconds lag on my p4 machine) in ooimpress.

so i got fed up and start searching for a smaller application that just views ppt quickly in fullscreen mode.

it was then i came across this package in ubuntu repos, pptview, which is esssentially pptview.exe (windows binary to view ppt), configured to open with wine. this application looked crappy, but it was extremely responsive on my slow pc.

i have seen this many times that viewers perform faster that editors, so there should be seperate viewing binaries to open files like word, spreadsheet, presentations etc. it makes sense as i open such office files mostly for viewing purpose, unless and until i am creating a fresh document.

this link also provides a deb package of pptview, if you do not wish to go to repository.
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/pptview