Ask dotTechies: What type of articles do you want to see more of on dotTech?
August 22, 2010 42
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On dotTech I write on many different topics. To help better focus my time and effort on topics that interest dotTechies, I would like to know what type of articles everyone is most interested in. Please cast your vote in the poll below, and share your thoughts in the comments, to help improve dotTech!
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Thanks to everyone that participates!
I would just like to say, this is my first stop most days, having just gone over to linux about an hour ago, fed up with hassle of windows, updates virus spoofing you name it, so a few more linux articles would help, you have a great site here i wish you and your members well, regards Mike.
Pick just ONE!?!?!?!? REALLY???? I look forward to all of the topics. I chose tips& tricks because I love learning new things about software and computers and windows but with that you have to have some really good freebies to utilize all of the capabilities of computers. A huge thanks goes to this site for all of it’s helpfulness and time and also heads up about bad software, this really is a site that needs to stay and keep up the amazing work it has been doing!!! THANK YOU!!!!
I voted for “Other”, because I think that you already have the proper balance of the other choices.
In other words – Don’t change too much, just keep on keeping on with more of the same!
What a great site you have!
@Everyone: I actually planned on having an “Everything Above” option in the poll (because I knew many people would want it). However, I forgot to add that option when creating the poll, only remembering after ~50 people already voted so I decided to just leave the option off.
That said, thank you for the continual feedback!
I like the freebie reviews. I have avoided a lot of techy trouble by reading reviews on here. Some freebies have waaay too much techy stuff in them and if you are not so tech savvy, you cannot make an intelligent decision.
I would also like to see application SW reviews. What comes to mind is the etype that was on here awhile back.
If that is not your forte, then I understand.
@Bruce Fraser: You might want to take a look at http://www.techsupportalert.com :) It’s one of my favorite tech websites, alongside dotTech.
The first 3 for me:-
Freebies.
Freeware Review.
GOTD Reviews.
Pretty well the way it is now.
And I find a lot of Tips & Tricks come out in with the reviews.
Hi Ashraf…
I can see that others have felt similar to what I feel. With many things that some of us are interested in, it may be easier to give us numbers to place in the boxes instead of checking just one box. For example, if you have seven choices, allow us to pick what is most important to us as number one, and least important as number seven. That way you may be able to get a better picture of what we favor. If you have an “other” box, I don’t think that helps you at all. I hope this response helps you.
I view your site everyday and enjoy it very much. I’m not a techie, but I get a lot of help and information from this site. Keep up the GREAT work!
Sincerely, Harold
I am also choosing “other” as in everything you review is a learning experience for me.
My discovery of dotTech was via GOTD, and I am now in the habit of visiting your site daily. It has become an indispensible source of useful software and interesting information for me. Your reviews are in-depth, wysiwyg, informative and clear and they determine whether or not I will install an item of software. I am amazed at how you find time to research and generate such well-presented articles.
My vote would be for ‘all of the above’, but only if it were not to detract from the excellent reviews you currently produce. Given your talent for research and presentation, any topic you choose to write about would be a worthwhile read. However, restricting myself to a single category, I have voted for Tips ‘n Tricks.
Keep up the good work, it is very much appreciated.
I am not sure what category this falls in to, but I bet there would be a lot of people interested -
“How to fix the horrible Windows 7 Start Menu”
(aka How to get it as close to the Classic Menu as possible)
There are some free programs out there that tap in to the Shell, but I have learned to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’ (aka ‘don’t muck with the internals’)
IT HAS NEARLY KILLED ME, but I have managed to get this when I click the Start Menu
(PS I have to hover over (or click) All Programs’)
This is ALL THAT I SEE (Nothing else) -
_DVD
_Editors
_Graphics
_Misc
_MS_Crap
_Other_Programs
_Web
Accessories
Administrative Tools
Maintenance
Startup
StartUp_Disabled
You probably could dispense with _Other_Programs and put them in _Misc
Or perhaps have _Misc_Boring
The above are all parent Menus, and that is all that shows in my Start Menu.
I have to click those to see the Sub Menus or EXE’s
Hover would be nice, but I can live with a single click to see the contents of say _Misc
There are a lot of people Googling for something close to the Classic Start Menu.
And there are a lot of rude people telling those ‘searchers’, that they should learn to use the new Search box (and love the ‘Ribbon’), instead of organizing our Menu.
They got me very angry, and thus made me determined to find out how to organize the Win7 Menu into what many of us want.
definitely for an “everything above” option. The more the better :)
Appreciated Ashraf!
Like everyone else I cant pick just one. Everything, sounds good to me.
Add one more for “everything above”. I’m always happy to learn new things when it comes to tech, and your reviews of software -whether they be freeware or GOTD related- are invaluable and help me make an altogether safer decision about what to use on my system. My deepest appreciation to you and all who work to make dotTech such a go-to site for so many people worldwide.
At least allow us multiple choices =]
I LOVE DOTTECH BUT THERE ARE NO LOL ARTICLES. MORE COMEDY PLEASE I GET BORED SOMETIMES OK????
I have been thinking and it would be great if we could email and/or submit computer questions and request software reviews. Then you would review the submissions and pick a few to write about here and deliver the article in a newsletter.
Just a thought