March 27, 2007

• PDF Speedup

  Adobe Reader really annoys me.  It used to be ok, but the recent versions display Adobe ads in the upper right-hand corner of the toolbar.  Even worse, the ads occasionally move, just to draw your attention.  It freakin’ burns me up to have a company display moving adspace on my desktop.  Why not just break into my house and spray graffiti on my fridge?  Or hold me down and tattoo a bar code on my forehead?

  Fortunately I found that if you disable Javascripts in the options, the ads go away.  But now every time you close the program, it warns you to turn Javascripts back on, because “some documents may not display correctly.”  Shyeah, right… those documents being YOUR ADS???

  But the nice thing about the age of the internet is that you’re never alone in your annoyance.  And someone out there has probably been annoyed enough to write an anti-annoyance hack.  Well, I found the anti-Adobe-Reader-hack — it’s called “PDF Speedup.”  Not only does it disable those ads, but it makes the program open up so much faster.  Now it opens up as fast as Wordpad!  Best of all, it’s free.  I might even buy their AcroPDF software just to support them and to stick it to Adobe.

  link: http://www.acropdf.com/

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