In the past I have shared about a few tools I use to make my computing life easier and faster – Gmail (though I no longer use POP access) and the Foxit Reader.  One thing I have been doing for quite some time is taking advantage of a tool in Gmail that makes large files (such as PDFs) less bothersome and can bypass Foxit or other applications when the file is not a keeper.

I had never thought to write about it, but LifeHacker did in a collection of 10 tips to speed up your browsing.  Here is the trick…

Use Google to read HTML copies of huge documents – Ah, Adobe Acrobat. It’s free and universally used to view documents exactly as they’d print, but few things bottleneck a browsing session like an 8MB PDF file, especially if your browser crashes before showing it. But we can all benefit from Google’s zeal to index everything on Earth. If you’ve got a Google Docs or Gmail account, uploading or emailing a PDF gives you an option to view its as an HTML, which is going to come through a lot faster. The same holds for PowerPoint presentations, Word 2007 .docx files, and nearly any document you can find in Google search. One of those work-arounds that’s so simple, you’ll be glad when you remember it when you’re trying to jam through that presentation on a terrible hotel Wi-Fi connection.

I use this one daily.  Use it to scan documents and don’t bother opening up an application and have your computing come to a grinding halt.

You can find the other ten recommendations from LifeHacker, here.