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Tired of paying money for commericial software? Find alternatives to shareware and other software with AlterativeTo.net.
Got some fancy schmancy photos you want to edit? Turn on your Windows 7 computer ($119.99) and fire up Photoshop ($699)! And when you’re done editing them, be sure to back them up with Altaro Oops! Backup ($99), or risk losing them.
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Read More »Dropbox – The best way to sync your files to other computers
Today’s post is brought to you by Conn09, an active member of the forums. He’ll talk about Dropbox, the great online file synchronization service we all love so much.
Although most of you have probably heard of Dropbox, some of you may have never used it. If you haven’t, here’s [...]
Read More »Enhance your computer experience with AutoHotkey
Are you finding yourself using the mouse more often than your keyboard? Does your keyboard feel a little bit neglected? Using AutoHotkey you can better integrate the keyboard into your regular routine, infinitely enhancing your computer experience.
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What is AutoHotkey?
AutoHotkey is an extremely powerful scripting language. [...]
Read More »Free WinX DVD Copy Pro! [36 hours left!]
Software Description
It’s something everybody does, and it’s something everybody gets annoyed by: lost or broken DVDs. However, there are pieces of software written to back up DVDs so this doesn’t matter, such as Digiarty’s WinX DVD Copy Pro:
WinX DVD Copy Pro is designed to bring you all-new DVD
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Clean up your messy computer with Belvedere, an automatic file sorter
Is your Downloads folder a mess? Do you wish your documents would move themselves from your desktop to, you know, Your Documents? Adam Pash, who writes for software and life hack blog Lifehacker, had exactly this problem–and decidede to fix it.
Meet Belvedere, your new servant
Belvedere is your new [...]
Read More »Resize non-resizable windows with ResizeEnable
Resizable windows are one of the key parts of the window metaphor. Unfortunately, not every piece of software follows this design standard. For example, how many times have you gone to a Properties panel, only to discover you had to scroll? Stop this madness now with ResizeEnable.[...]
What it does
Read More »Are applications contacting home? See what programs are using the internet without your knowledge
What’s that program you have running that’s accessing the internet? You don’t know? Find out using a simple command prompt command. It’s important to know what your programs are doing at any one time. You should have full control over what does and doesn’t use your connection, whether you’re at [...]
Control your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch from your computer with Veency
Need to quickly view your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch while it’s in another room? Luckily there’s an app for that. Meet Veency, developed by the same guy who brought us Cydia.
Initial Setup
Veency is not a very complicated app. In fact there is really only one thing you [...]
Read More »Free jv16 PowerTools 2011! [48 hours only!]
Software Description
jv16 PowerTools 2011 is a great freebie. Here’s what Macecraft, the makers of jv16 PowerTools, has to say about their flagship product:
Key Features
- Cleans and fixes your computer
- Uninstalls software and gets rid of all the left-overs
- Optimizes Windows
- Improves your safety by detecting potentially dangerous files
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Free WinX DVD Copy Pro! [24 hours only!]
Software Description
If you’ve got DVDs, you surely know that it’s important to back them up–in case they get scratched, lost, or even obsoleted. Says Digiarty about their WinX DVD Copy Pro:
WinX DVD Copy Pro is designed to bring you all-new DVD backup experience. This up-to-date DVD copy software
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Free Partition Assistant Pro Edition 3!
Software Description
Managing partitions is a specialty job that requires special software. Says developer Aomei Technology about thier Partition Assistant Professional:
Partition Assistant Professional Edition allows you to manage your disk partition similar with Partition Magic. It can perform more complicated partition operations on your disk, and you can use
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Firefox Sync: have all your bookmarks, tabs, and passwords everywhere
Keeping passwords, bookmarks, and other things synced across the internet is a pain. There are third-party services like LastPass and Xmarks, but none of them sync all of your data, leaving you with shreds of data across each device. Luckily, Mozilla has seen the problem, and in Firefox 4, introduced [...]
Build, destroy, and explore with Minecraft, the blocky building game
If you’ve been around the web for a while, chances are you’ve at least seen the word Minecraft somewhere. But what is it? Minecraft is a game where you run around a giant, cubic world and build. In Minecraft, which costs €14.95 (approximately $20), you look for resources while evading [...]
March 31st is World Backup Day: here’s what you might miss
The most frequent hardware failure on any computer is its hard drive, which incidentally stores all of your files. Unfortunately, many hard drive failures risk the permanent deletion of all of your precious data. Take today, World Backup Day 2011, to back up these important but often forgotten things.
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Read More »What’s new in Firefox 4.0: App Tabs and Syncing and Panoramas, Oh My!
Firefox 4. It’s finally here. If you’ve been wanting to see more from your browser, you’ve got no more time to waste, because Mozilla has been working non-stop for the last year for today. What’s new in Firefox 4? Where to start? From new locations for the user interface to [...]
What’s new in Internet Explorer 9: faster, better, more competent
It’s finally here: Internet Explorer 9. Internet Explorer 9 is meant to revitalize Internet Explorer and maybe even turn some techies into IE users. Its web standards supports are exponentially better than previous versions, with much better CSS3 and HTML5 support than previous generations. It was also the first browser [...]
Free WinUtilities v9.97! [Update: link removed]
UPDATE: As it turns out, this is actually a magazine freebie, and as such, the link has been taken down. We have a strict no-magazine policy here at dotTech. Thanks Joanna for the notification!
Software Description
The following description is form the publisher’s site:
WinUtilities is an award winning collection
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Free IObit Game Booster Premium! [This week only!]
Please note that until Game Booster v2.3 is released you will need to re-enter the registration code after exiting Game Booster. v2.3 should be released this week.
Software Description
Game Booster Premium is developed by IObit. Says their website:
Game Booster Premium is capable of delivering the best gaming experience
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Free EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard!
Software Description
Need to recover a deleted file? What about a deleted partition? Try EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard. Says CHENGDU YIWO Tech Development Co., Ltd, the developers of EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard:
Advanced and Best data recovery software to do format recovery, unformat and recover deleted files emptied from Recycle
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Free EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition! [6 hours left!]
Update: This promotion is now over. Sorry to those that missed it! To avoid missing promotions in the future, consider subscribing to dotTech: RSS Feed | E-mail | Twitter | Facebook.
Software Description
EASEUS Partition Master is made by CHENGDU YIWO Tech Development Co., Ltd. As they describe their software:[...]
Read More »Free Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC 2011!
Update: You may want to stay away from Uniblue and SUMPC2011! There have been multiple accounts of bad things happening to users and computers that have SUMPC on them.
Software Description
The following is a description of SpeedUpMyPC 2011, as per the developer:
The problem:
Is your PC getting slower?[...]
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Keep all your apps up to date with FileHippo Updater
Most people here know that updating software means having less bugs and having more security. Unfortunately, most software titles have their own custom-built updaters that are easily ignored and only show up once you open a program. This can make a person annoyed at a piece of software for crashing, [...]
Free jv16 Powertools v2010! [72 hours only!]
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Software Description
jv16 PowerTools 2010 is a great freebie. Here’s what Macecraft, the makers of jv16 PowerTools, has to [...]
Read More »Free Clipdiary v3.1! [72 hours only!]
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Software Description
The following is a description of the software written by the developer:
Clipdiary — what does it
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Twelve must-have Gmail labs projects
One of the cool things about Gmail is that it has so many Labs projects. You can text people, you can insert images, you can easily translate emails, you can optimize Gmail for the wide-screen, and much much more!
1. SMS in Chat & SMS in Chat gadget
Although [...]
Read More »Switcher: Get Mac OS X’s Exposé on Windows Vista/Win7
If your friend has a Mac, then you’ve most likely heard bragging about how switching windows with Exposé is the best thing since sliced Safari. Switcher is a really cool free Windows app that takes that feature and implements it beautifully in Windows. (Windows Vista and higher only, though, since [...]
Jealous of your Mac friends? Get multitouch on Windows with the latest Synaptics drivers.
There are several cool things about owning a Mac: for one, you get to look cool in front of the rest of the café; you can be unique. But if I had to choose one feature from a Mac that makes me want to admire Apple’s polish and thoughtfulness, I’d [...]
How to destroy (remove/change) forgotten Windows passwords [Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7]
Forgot your Windows password? Need to recover/get rid of it? One solution is using Ophcrack. However, Ophcrack has a few problems with it. For one, it can only crack passwords which are 14 characters or less in length. Secondly, any passwords that have extensive use of special symbols Ophcrack won’t [...]
XBoot: Put multiple utilities/Linux distros/disc-based AVs on one bootable CD/DVD/USB drive
How many CDs, DVDs, and/or USB drives do you take with you when you go help someone with their PC? One? Two? Fifty-seven? Cut that number down with XBoot.
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XBoot Overview
XBoot, a relatively new program created by an enthusiastic Indian programmer, is a [...]
Read More »How To: Jailbreak your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (and get lots of cool stuff)
Apple makes cool toys. However, Apple has not-so-cool restrictions on these toys. Apple likes to build a “walled garden” around its gadgets: You can’t buy or download apps they don’t approve of, and don’t even think about setting custom ringtones. Don’t like that icon? That’s too bad, as Apple won’t [...]
Recover (crack) forgotten Windows passwords with Ophcrack
Forget your Windows password? Yes? How are you going to log in! If you don’t know your password, it can really take away from that whole “using of the computer” idea. Thankfully, a bunch of Swiss developers have put together Ophcrack, a free and open source program that will crack [...]
How To: Replace ugly icons on your iPhone/iPad/iPod
You have a pretty new iPhone/iPad/iPod; and for the life of you, you cannot figure out why Apple would invest so much in the physical design of the device but leave so much to be desired when it came the the icons*. Yawn! Those icons are so last year! Anxious [...]
Avast: “People get their virus protection from warez sites”
Eighteen months after leaking, Avast’s ship released a new number: 774,651. 774,651 is the number of users who are using avast! Pro with the one single license that got leaked almost two years ago.
What happened is a year and a half ago an avast! Pro license, sold to a [...]
Read More »Four ways to access your iDevice’s (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) file system from your computer
Part of breaking out of Apple’s walled garden is to access the root file system on your iDevice (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch). Fortunately there are a lot of ways to do it, some being harder than others. In this article I will teach you several ways: Using iPhoneBrowser while being plugged in [...]
Read More »Free Alcohol 120% (v5.5), an all-in-one CD/DVD emulation, burning, and backup software!
Update: This promotion is over! Be sure to subscribe to dotTech for information about future freebies!
Alcohol 120% became a hit before my time but the name still resonates throughout the tech world. To put it simply, Alcohol 120% is a program that can read (mount) CD/DVD images with the [...]
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