Cool PDF Reader

Do you

• Think Adobe Acrobat is slow?
• Adobe Acrobat takes time to install?
• Do you need a simple tool to view PDF files on several computers?

If you do - the solution is just one click away. I found a a company called CoolPDF Software that gives me just what I want.

Their Cool PDF Reader is currently a 655KB download and does not require any installation before use.

I have tried it on lots of my recent .pdf downloads - and it works most of the time. I had some problems with big documents, but most of the it works as a charm.

I do miss some features though;

• U3 installer.
• Keyboard shortcuts to navigate through a page. (To move up and down.)

Scripting in Windows

You have to love Microsoft script language - cmd.exe. You can do lot with it if you just learn how to do so.

Here is one example that extracts date and time from norwegain locale and puts it into the variables %dato% and %tid%.

for /f "delims=. tokens=1-3" %%a in ("%date%") do set dato=%%c%%b%%a
for /f "delims=: tokens=1-2" %%a in ("%time%") do set tid=%%b%%a

Cool, eh?