A few weeks back we covered five tools to clean up your PC as well as ten tools to defragment your hard disk. This week we have three tools that keep your Windows fast. Vista Services Optimizer Vista Services Optimizer enables you to safely optimize Windows services based on how you use your computer. A standard Vista installation has many services turned on and running that you may not have any use for, consuming CPU and memory that can potentially slow down your system. Vista Services Optimizer analyzes your system and suggest services that can be safely turned off. You…

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Do you have a habit to working with too many windows? Different browsers open; Feed reader open and a few chat windows too? DeskAngel is an enhancement tool for Windows desktop. It is simple, portable and totally free. Features: Edge snap is like ‘Aero snap’ of ‘windows 7′, which makes windows snapped at the edges of screen. Directly scroll the document under cursor, whenever it is actived or not, while scrolling the wheel of the mouse. Maximize and restore window under cursor after click the wheel button of the mouse Auto scrolling the document once keeping the wheel button pressed…

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Facing a blank screen in your videos? Or maybe you can’t hear the audio playing? Today almost all avi movies are compressed with DivX, Xvid or similar codec packs. Here are three that I have used at different points of time. You need to pick only one. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you…

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If you have missed reading any of our Techtites Daily articles this week, here’s a recap. December 22 – Compress PowerPoint and Word files without zipping software December 23 – Partitioning in Linux – Try GParted December 24 – Speed up your WordPress Admin December 25 – Six things to do this Christmas December 26 – Three Themes to make your Firefox Christmassy December 27 – Take Google Reader to your Desktop with ReadAir What do you think of the coverage this week? Do write in and let us know if you have any suggestions.

I’m a big fan and a two year old user of FeedDemon. However, my feed statistics as well as those of several others I know, show that Google Reader is one of the maximum used online feed reading software. I, for one, hate the concept of a web based reader. Hence, when I stumbled upon ReadAir [Via: Google Inside], I decided to give it a shot. ReadAir is an OSX Themed Desktop Client for Mac or Windows built with Adobe Air. You login to you Google Account and it fetches all your feeds. This is still a very experimental version…

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A Firefox user? Are you still running the default theme or have you decked your browser this season? Here are a three themes to make your Firefox browser all ready for the Christmas season. X-Mas Xmas is a theme made up of original icons, a snowy background, and Christmas-colors throughout. X-Mas for Firefox 2.x X-Mas is a theme complete with animated Snowfall upon the toolbar, animated toolbar Icons (Smoking Chimney, Present, Fir Tree), Fairy Lights as Scrollbars and many more. Also available in a Light version without the animated snowfall. Tinseltown Tinseltown is a Christmas theme with holiday imagery including…

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It’s Christmas today and if you still haven’t gotten into the Christmas mood, then here’s somethings to do today and for the rest of this week. 1. Download the Official Microsoft Christmas Theme for XP Way back in 2004, Microsoft released a Christmas theme. Microsoft ChristmasTheme 2004 is an official Christmas desktop theme with new wallpaper, animated cursors, new icons, new sounds and a 3D screensaver. [Download] (requires Windows Genuine validation) | [Alternate Download] 2. Softpedia Christmas Wallpaper Packs Decked the halls with balls of holly? How about your desktop? If you’re not satisfied with the theme above, then Softpedia…

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Wishing all the readers of Techtites a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Thanks for your continued support all through the year The image above is a Christmas tree in Driskill.

How fast is your internet connection? If it is as slow as mine and you blog regularly, then you will understand the necessity of doing something to speed up the loading of pages of your WordPress Administration area. Fortunately, WordPress comes inbuilt with this support. It integrates with Google Gears that enables you to cache the files for offline use. And enabling it is so easy. At the top right of the dashboard you will see a link called Turbo. Hitting this will redirect you to the Tools page. You can also reach this link via the Tools menu in…

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GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. GParted is an extremely feature rich software. It supports several different types of file formats through the use of their equivalent support programs. These include ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiser4, reiserfs, ufs and xfs. GParted also includes a LiveCD which is available as an ISO or USB, PXE or on your Hard Disk. – Download GParted – Download GParted LiveCD