How many times have you struggled to send PowerPoint Presentations and Word documents to your friends / colleagues only to be overwhelmed by their sheer size! You can choose to zip or rar these files and send them across, but this would require the user there to have a program to unzip or unrar the files. PPTminimizer for Word and PowerPoint compresses PowerPoint presentations and Word documents without changing the file formats. Features: File compression by up to 98% Compresses all PowerPoint presentations from PowerPoint 97 to 2007 (PPTX) Compresses all Word documents from Word 97 to 2003 Keeps the…

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If you have missed reading any of our Techtites Daily articles this week, here’s a recap. December 15 – Sing along with your music with AutoLyrix (Multimedia Monday) December 16 – Backup your files with SyncBack (Tool Tuesday) December 17 – Scan for Windows Vulnerability Scanner and WordPress – Yesterday, today, forever(?) December 18 – How to change the default color scheme of Word December 19 – Send Greetings this Holiday Season with YouTube December 20 – Stop Google from tracking your Chrome usage What do you think of the coverage this week? Do write in and let us know…

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We’re finally running on WordPress 2.7. I also plan on changing the theme that this blog is running to one more suited for a technology blog. I’m still working on the details. Have narrowed in on a few themes for this purpose. What remains is customization to accommodate all the features we have out here. I’m also wondering on whether to open registrations on this blog. Am not sure how this will help users. Alternatively I’ll implement Google Friend connect or Facebook connect or OpenID. Looking for feedback about this. If you notice any problems out here currently, do let…

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When Google Chrome launched, everyone jumped to embrace the new browser. Unfortunately, each Google Chrome installation contains a unique ID that allowing identifying its user. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like anyone or anything tracking my usage, especially not a company as powerful as Google. Well, you can stop that with a tiny software from Abelssoft titled UnChrome. It replaces your unique ID with Null values so that your browser cannot be identified any longer. Simply download UnChrome and hit “Remove unique ID now” and your Chrome is anonymous now. Download UnChrome

Come this holiday season and it’s time for greetings. I’ve been sending online greetings for years now and YouTube has decided that it’s time to join the list of online greeting sites. Browse to YouTube Greetings, select a video and hit Sent this video as a greeting card. If you have a webcam, you can even choose to record your own video and then send it. You can then type a greeting and enter a comma separated list of recipients (upto 25). The question does remain that how many videos are really suitable to be sent? How many will you…

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After their successful Olympics performance, Olympics snowboarder Shaun White and swimmer Michael Phelps are now in a new league. The league of capturing the hearts and minds of thousands of gamers world wide. In association with Shaun White, Ubisoft has released Shaun White Snowboarding. Shaun White Snowboarding boasts of open world mountains which give you a realistic appearance. Join with friends as you take on the trails. Besides this, you can also have snow fights, film your friends and hike to secret spots. Shaun White Snowboarding is available for Xbox 360, Nintendo DS as well the PC. Phelps has partnered…

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By default Microsoft Word 2007 comes with a blue color scheme. However, Word 2007 also comes inbuilt with two separate themes, viz. Silver and Black. So, if you are bored of watching a blue Word, here’s how you can change it. Firstly open Word Option by hitting the Office start button to the top left followed by Word Options as shown in the screenshot below. You can also open the same by hitting Alt + F + I. Under Popular you can change the color scheme by selecting from the drop down box labeled Color scheme. Here’s what the Silver…

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I’ve been using WordPress for more than five years now and have seen it through all its revisions. For those of you who came online recently, take a look at a picture journey through the several years of WordPress. Looking at 2.7 released recently, you’ll never realize the rough interface that we used to blog five years ago. Ozh also implemented a WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool which will let you search across nearly 2500 functions through 45 WordPress releases, i.e. right from 0.7.1 upto the latest 2.7. This is ofcourse for developers who need to make sure their plugin…

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Protector Plus – Windows Vulnerability Scanner checks your system for Windows Vulnerabilities. It guides you to update with the right patch to make your system secure. This program is updated once a month to detect all the vulnerabilities discovered. This software is compatible with Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, Windows XP (Home & Professional), Windows 2000 Server & Professional and Windows 2003. Once the Scan is completed, the software lists the vulnerabilities detected, their risk level and the download location of the patch. It also creates the log file named in…

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Keeping your files safe is one worrisome issue. I have multiple backups of my files, both on an external hard disk as well as on two online file backup services. When you have a few hundred megabytes to backup, you can just replace the folder time and time again. However, this is seldom practical when you are talking a few gigabytes of data. This is where synchronization software come into play. One software I have been using since a long time to backup my data is called SyncBack. SyncBack Freeware is a program that helps you easily backup and synchronize…

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