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On this day last year dotTech was started. Well, technically speaking it was PoliticallyMotivated at that time but who is keeping tabs, right? Over the past year, from the first post to this most recent one, dotTech has blossomed from an unknown entity to one of the most respected, referenced, and authoritative technology blogs on the Internet.
The dotTech community has grown from Ashraf talking to himself to a dedicated readership of over 2,000 subscribed readers who visit on a daily basis. Even better, this community is not a segregated group from one part of the world. From the Old World to the New World, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists, Deists, Buddhists, Hindus, black, white, brown, yellow, pink, red, male, female, young, old, and everything in between alike are on dotTech; indeed dotTechies are a diverse bunch who come from all nooks and corners of the world. Yet, still there is strong adhesive keeping us altogether regardless of our vast personal differences; and to that I salute – well done friends.
Whether you have contributed to dotTech’s professional growth by publishing unique and informative articles, providing your technical advice and topic suggestions freely, pulling out your checkbooks, providing artistic expertise, or just simply being here on a regular basis, I thank all you: thank you.
As the new dotTech year starts, let dotTech grow, prosper, and continue to champion technological advice without ever losing sight of its core, ethical values.
P.S. The new dotTech look was purposely put up to celebrate today (thank you Devraj for the really nice logo and favicon). I know many of you have posted your comments, suggestions, and criticisms about the new look in the comments of other articles already. However to make it more organized, so I can respond and evaluate comments without missing some, please post all comments, suggestions, and criticisms here.
Congratulations! :)
Your one of my favorite people on the Internet! This site has been so much help and saved me a lot $ in the last year.
Look for an “Anniversary Gift” coming from PayPal!
I hope others will follow suit!
Take Care,
Taz
@Taz: Thanks for the words and the cash =).
Beautiful!
Very nice site! Thanks Ashraf!
@Locutus: I concur!! Thank YOU, Ashraf, for devoting so much time to this awesome site!
Unbelievable,
Beautiful site.Hard work and brilliance of Ashraf bhai.Now it looks as attractive as useful and addictive it always was.Everybody will love this site now,everybody
I am honored to be considered part of the dottech community and commend you Ashraf for your most excellent and ethical work. The new look is very pleasing and easy on the eyes.
I’ll miss the old, simple black and white dT theme.
The new look is awesome though!
Dear Ash
Hey – What happened??!!! 8O
Such a lovely surprise !!!
Congratulations on the new look, congratulations on the nice little community you have built around you, thank you for all the great help.
Look in your eMail, a little gift is coming ;)
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I also encourage everybody to consider a “Anniversary Gift” as its greatly deserved!
Ashraf’s advice has been invaluable and has helped us all at one point or other on how to be safer, from installing crapware or making bad decisions. Our PCs are much happier w him around.
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I concur w Bill’s post, the text size is a bit too big.
Peace
PS: Also want to mention I *LOVE* the new logo & the favicon!!
•• A BIG Bravo Devraj :D
@Tortuga: I agree, but t would be nice if the comment text was pure black instead of this small gray font.
Wow, a whole year! Thats about the time Windows 7′s Beta came out :D
Ahraf: Its been an honor reading your works and an even bigger honor being able to write for this blog. May we celebrate dotTech turning 2 with even more flair!
@Samuel: I thought that was January 9th- the first post was October 22nd.
@Ashraf: Congrats on having your 1yr anniversary on the same day as Win7 Final!
happy birthday dottech.org! keep the entries coming. :)
@Locutus: My bad. Guess my memories going on me. Well in that case it was my friends sweet 16, so its still important, sorta…
@Everyone: A big thanks!
Happy birthday to Dottech! Our little boy’s all growed up! :)
And here’s to many more years head, dear soul!
Um Ashraf,
I think the email notifications function has been broken since you changed the new look… I haven’t received an email ever since!
Adrian
Happy Anniversary, as a new IT student I found you and all the members of this wonderful community which you built as my heroes in the field that I’ve just started.
God bless everyone.let’s continue to help each other. United we stand and grow together.
@Adrian: Wow. Thank for telling me. It seems like I accidentally turned off e-mail notifications! Ahhhhhhhhh. I turned them back on. Be ready to be flooded with 3-4 emails =D.
ASW Ashraf,
Man, it feels like Eid on this link! Everyone so happy and jubilant :-)
Dottech Mubarak! :-P
Happy Birthday!
Congratulations Ashraf:
First about the site, because that change is more dramatically obvious to me. It’s really quite stylish, the color scheme very comfortable on the eyes, which, by eliminating the stark B/W contrasts and the somewhat harsh fonts of the right side columns, has made the site (for me) much easier to use. Devraj deserves a round of applause.
As far as the site content itself, I have only experienced excellence and therefore have no basis for previous comparison. I was reading your comments in GOTD for quite a while before I ever knew you had a website, and looked forward to them.
It is unlikely that most of the readers are familiar with Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen who became famous for hawking Florida orange juice with the slogan “A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine”. After a while that’s how I began to feel about your comments. Even if it was not about the day’s offering, there was usually a pearl of wisdom there worth taking.
But I know nothing of the early days, the evolution through which you are celebrating. The link for the first post of one word does not help much. The old political website is gone so no luck there either. I would be interested in the history of the site if you have it archived.
You seem to be an interesting, intelligent, generous, well expressed, helpful, but slightly mysterious young man Ashraf. (Everybody’s young compared to me – please do not take offense at the phrase. Students are just generally considered young regardless of age.)
I have wondered why a full time student (you had mentioned within the past 6 months or so(?) that you were, I think) would take on an endeavor like this, or could even find the time. I know the arrangement with GOTD to get the offerings in advance helped you a lot; it helped us too – your review, not simply a comment, a review, is now first comment.
Since I benefit from your work, and from others who contribute to your site, and from the freebies and notices that I have not seen elsewhere, I think a PayPal transaction is in order as a thank you. In addition to a personal:
Thank You, Ashraf
@Nolookingca: Hi, thanks for pointing that out – I hadn’t notice yet … So much new stuff to check out!
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I’m starting a campaign to have some tools for the message box (any tools really) cause as of now Ashraf took away the little we had before :(
I’ll be picketing outside his window this afternoon – are you w me? :)
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Ciao
@MrWizard: Hi and welcome!
• About the Political side of the site, there wasn’t one, never existed. It was just a silly title that our silly Ashraf concocted for no good reason :P
The dotTech name is quite recent in fact.
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• About the ‘mysterious’ part, well each time he says something personal there’s always a fuss or a moron to say he should stick w reviewing only … *sigh*
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• About him being interesting, intelligent, blahblahblah (you forgot funny) Ok, you really need to stop saying those things even if they are all true.
He is insufferable as it is :P
I’ve been trying to find some fault so I can torture him, haven’t found anything yet. Darn!!! Turns out he is quite an accomplished young lad.
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Hope to see you around
Peace
Congratulations on a year,
Happy Birthday to Dottech
Happy Birthday to Dottech…
Ok you get the idea, i look forward to the future years of this site
PS;
The new theme looks awesome!