dotTech has multiple different ways it can be subscribed through: RSS Feed | E-mail | Twitter | Facebook. Typically these four options cover the subscription needs of most dotTechies. However, recently I have been told by some people that dotTech sends out too many e-mails. Since our current e-mail notifications [...]

Earlier this year I asked dotTechies to vote for dotTech as the “Best Geek Blog” for 2010 at the Blogger’s Choice Awards; there have also been dotTechie-assisted campaign efforts through our forums. Well ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, techies and non-techies, young and old, male and female, tall and [...]

Hey look – it’s a bird, it’s a plane… no, it’s the new dotTech! Last week I introduced a minimalist black-and-white design of dotTech. However, many dotTechies wanted something with color. So based upon the feedback I received, I have changed the look of dotTech yet again. The hardest part [...]

Update: The server transfer has been complete. Everything should be back to normal. Please report if you find any errors!

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I would just like to let everyone know that a lot of things are broken on dotTech right now – I know. I am currently in the process of [...]

Update: Everyone should be getting e-mails now. If you are not getting e-mails and you are on the e-mail notifications list, please inform me and I will look into it!

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Some dotTechies who are subscribed to e-mail notifications may not be receiving e-mails about new articles. This is an [...]

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In a bid to market their products in the best way possible, developers often provide “exclusive” freebies to multiple different sites. A few dotTechies have raised some concern regarding this issue telling me a giveaway cannot be “exclusive” if provided to multiple websites. Although I think it is a [...]

In the past I have expressed the need for more authors writing for dotTech. However, previously the author positions were strictly voluntary, unpaid positions. Now dotTech is making a little money thanks to active dotTechies visiting, so I figure why not share the wealth; dotTech is now offering paid author [...]

So, as I am sure all dotTechies have noticed, I have not posted on dotTech for the past two months. Why? Simply because I was too busy with life (life outside dotTech), and couldn’t deal with dotTech. I know I should have given a heads up instead of just disappearing, [...]

As I am sure many dotTechies have noticed, I have been writing less and less GOTD/Shareware reviews recently. There are multiple reasons as to why this is happening but by far the biggest reason is lack of time; I am just more busy nowadays than I have been in the [...]

For the past 6 months dotTech has been running a WinUtilities Professional Edition giveaway, allowing dotTechies to grab WinUtilities Professional Edition for free. Recently, because of a disagreement between dotTech and YL Computing (the developer of WinUtilities), YL Computing has canceled the WinUtilities Professional Edition giveaway and dotTechies will no [...]

Recently dotTech has run a couple of promotions in cooperation with Paragon Software. From their end Paragon Software has thoroughly enjoyed working with dotTech and the feedback they have received from dotTechies; in fact they asked me to pass on the following message:

“We are very pleased by your attention

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Do you hear that? No? Me neither; that is the new-dotTech-article sound that you don’t hear. I know I haven’t posted an article if a few days; the semester is ending and I wanted to focus on my studies so I don’t fall flat on my face because I got [...]

Thank you to everyone that provided me feedback on the e-mail issue I have been dealing with lately. Based on my efforts at trying to fix this issue and the feedback from dotTechies, I have come up with a few tips that everyone should follow that (hopefully) will help alleviate [...]

Hey Friends,

I have gotten numerous e-mails from lots of people telling me that they are no longer receiving e-mails from dotTech (e-mail notifications/registration confirmation e-mails). Believe me when I say I am not ignoring your e-mails of distress that you have sent me. I have replied to each and [...]

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My apologies for the ~4-5 hour downtime. You see I have been in the process of moving servers and the lack of quick DNS resolving on my ISP’s part forced me to turn a blind eye to dotTech’s new server for a couple of hours. Moving servers itself [...]

As mentioned earlier today, I have gotten numerous complaints by dotTechies about “malware being on dotTech”, specifically related to advertisements and/or page redirections. Since I have not been able to reproduce these problems myself, I have diagnosed these problems to the best of my ability and have applied a possible [...]

Last year I ran a belated campaign to try to get dotTech to win “Best Geek Blog” at Blogger’s Choice Awards for 2009. Well, unfortunately, we did not win – we got 6th if I remember properly. However, this year is ours! So, I once again ask the dotTech family [...]

Recently, dotTech celebrated its 1 year birthday.  Now, dotTech is celebrating its first 1000 members!  This just a year and two months after its founding means we have an average of two and a bit new members a day.

Thanks to everyone that has helped build this great community![...]

Hello Friends,

First and foremost let me say thanks to everyone that expressed concern and curiosity about my lack of activity for the past 6-7 days. You see I was out of town for the past 6-7 days (although it was not necessarily a vacation but rather more of a [...]

Back in March I asked for assistance in making dotTech number 1 in “Best Geek Blog” of 2009 at Blogger’s Choice Awards. Well 2009 is coming to an end and I would very much still love to win that award for dotTech. So, I once again ask the dotTech family [...]

Hello Friends,

Two housekeeping things to discuss:

• I used Random.org to randomly select the winners of the free Panda Internet Security 2010 1 year license giveaway. These are the lucky people who won:

• RoseD1st
• Paul
• Paul (different Paul than the above)
• Mykeljomz
• Kev93
• Mohsen
• P Moreau
• Alain
• Steve O’Connor
• George

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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, [...]