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[matgb]

From theweaselking:

Mike Hoye provides Ways To Make PDFs Not Suck for everyday use and viewing.

The short version:

Get Firefox.
Get the PDF-Download extension for Firefox, allowing you to choose to open PDFs in the browser, convert to HTML, or download to your PC, on the fly.
Get Foxit Reader, which is just like Adobe Reader but teeny and not bloated and fast.

No more clicking badly labelled links and having my PC chug for half an hour for me. Oh, also a metaquote:

Man: If you don't interfere with human affairs, what do you do with all your time?
God: Your Mama...heh heh heh...seriously though, I told that joke to this dude in Nazareth this one time and he so totally believed me.

Today, I have mostly been sleeping. And browsing. And shouting at Blogger for being crap. And shouting at my blog template for not working right. Oh, and destroying the Mongols utterly in CivII. And reading BritBlog roundup #51, which is always a great way to kill a Sunday.

Oh yeah, I went to the shop earlier, I was out of margerine and salad cream. That meant no toast and no other meals. That!=good. Work tomorrow, best behaviour, the company owner visits Tuesday.

Comments

[js84.livejournal.com]

I find PDF Download to be one of the most used of my Firefox extensions. That and Gmail notifier.

By contrast Apple's Quicktime browser plugin completely whores all associations with mp3 links so that they open in the browser. If someone gave me the link to an mp3 straight off, I'd be virtually unable to download it. :(

[matgb]

another reason to avoid plugging in Quicktime. I wonder if there's an Irfanview plugin. hmmm...