I am one of those people who use more of their left side of the brain than the right. However even I can recognize a really cool, and useful, art-creating tool when I see one. SmoothDraw is one of these tools; SmoothDraw aims to bring artists into the digital age [...]

Back in August I wrote an article about Partition Wizard, one of the only free partition management software which supports 64-bit users and businesses. In my article I stated the only major caveat I noticed with Partition Wizard is the lack of a bootable CD. MT Solution seems to have [...]

Here is an interesting utility for us insane multitaskers out there. WizMouse is a software which allows you to scroll a window without making it active. You simply have to place your mouse over the inactive window you want to scroll and use your scroll wheel to scroll. Simple as [...]

Many dotTechies know about WinX DVD Ripper because it was given out on Giveaway of the Day sometime ago. However it seems now the developer of WinX DVD Ripper has made it freeware…

…and has added a new “Platinum” edition which you can pay $25 to upgrade to. Since it [...]

As most of you know I recently changed web hosts for dotTech. In the process of changing web hosts, all my emails were left at the old web host with copies in Outlook on my computer. Now this got me a little worried because now I have no access to [...]

I hate keyloggers. Hate, hate, hate. I am not sure anyone likes keyloggers (besides the scum who use them for evil purposes). If you like keyloggers please tell me so I can ban you. I am only half joking.

To protect ourselves from scumware such as keyloggers, there are security [...]

Remember Stickies? Well the developer of Stickies has some other note worthy programs; one of them is Caffeine. Caffeine is a very simple program designed to accomplish one task and one task only: to prevent your computer from locking/going to sleep/turning on the screensaver/turn off monitor/etc.

What Caffeine does is [...]

Unless you specifically tell a program otherwise, most programs nowadays will add themselves to your start menu when you install them. If you navigate your start menu often you know how annoying it is to view the dozens (hundreds?) of entries there. If while reading those first two sentences you [...]

Process Tamer is a program that allows you to control how much CPU one specific program/process uses. We all have encountered programs that allow us to “set CPU priority” for that specific program (i.e. FormatFactory). Process Tamer is a program that works in a similar way with the only difference [...]

For me booting up the computer is a touchy subject. Not because of the actual turning on the computer, waiting for it to load, blah blah; rather the idea of some idiotic program making itself start up on Windows boot makes my blood boil. How dare some third party no [...]

Ever been asked “what are the specs of your computer” or “what [insert hardware component here] do you have” or “does your computer have a [insert hardware product here]” or “what programs do you have installed” or [insert hardware related question here]? These types of questions are usually asked of [...]

Today I will leave out the the usual brouhaha and cut right to the chase. I am here to tell you about an extremely powerful freeware file/folder renaming tool (if you somehow missed what the title said =P):

Rename Master is a complex, yet elegant (in a weird way), software [...]

Ever wanted to be able to reorder the buttons on your taskbar – place them in an order that fits your needs the best? Maybe you want your Firefox button to appear before (to the left of) your Word button but you opened Word first and therefore it appears first. [...]

Mixed in with all the brouhaha over today’s giveaway Video to Flash Converter, Giovanni, the great free-alternative software conquistatore (otherwise known as ‘conquistador’ to us culturally insensitive Americans), posted about a program that allows you to turn your PowerPoints into SWF flash videos. I just installed this software and am [...]