How to view zip / rar files online using Google Docs

You must have had received several zip files from your friends and colleagues before and wondered “who’ll download and then open, see whats inside?” and ignored the mail due to laziness or found a zip file online and wanted to see the contents before downloading? Well many do that and myself have done that many times before

Here’s a solution for those, Google Docs added new feature to view the contents on a zip file online this means no need to download and view it online just like a pdf or doc file or slideshows. If the files inside the zip files are the traditional files such as .jpg or .doc or .pdf, you can finish of the whole compressed file without even downloading

That is for gmail of course, if you want to see the contents of a rar /zip file found online then just paste the url link to that file in the google doc viewer, it will do the rest job.

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