Here you will find tips, tricks, and guides on various different topics, but mainly focused on computers.
Are you planning to build the ultimate PC for virtual reality? Virtual reality is just in the beginning stages, so you need to spend your money wisely to make your PC more futuristic. What is Virtual Reality? Virtual reality is th...
Are you an Ubuntu user who needs to upgrade Ubuntu every 9 months or so? Just as the support for Windows XP came to an end recently, support for Ubuntu version 15.4 will also end this year. So regular updates are very important an...
When a person uses the Linux operating system they need to know how to manage a hard drive. A person may also need to manage USB drives and SD cards. It is important that they know how to manage a hard drive and the partitions to ...
All browsers have a page reload option that you can select from. However, those options are usually limited to just the one page tab. However, with the ReloadAll Firefox add-on we can reload all open page tabs at once. You can add...
The touchpad, also known as trackpad, is a useful component that you can find on MacBooks, Chromebooks and laptops. It’s just that not everyone is fond of using it. As a matter of fact, there are users who would opt to manually di...
Advertisements are a critical source of revenue keeping dotTech afloat (same goes for most other websites). I greatly appreciate anyone and everyone that does not block ads on dotTech and our sister site, SharewareOnSale. However,...
Social networking has become an integral part of the modern-day lifestyle, enabling millions and millions of users to connect with each other and share their thoughts. And at the very top of the social network pyramid lies Faceboo...
Made popular by his password recovery tools and maintained popularity with a boatload of lightweight, and portable utilities, NirSofer is a developer that makes dozens (hundreds?) of useful programs; some of which I am sure dotTec...
Recently I posted about how to get Ashampoo Office 2008 for free. For all its good, the only problem with Ashampoo Office is it cannot read the new Microsoft Office 2007 formats (.DOCX, .PPTX, and .XLSX). So to help out those dotT...
Me 1: Remember that great background you downloaded a while ago? Me 2: Yeah! Of course, I accidentally deleted it. Me 1: Really? You deleted it? Oh. Me 2: Yeah…. all I was able to find of it on the internet was a thumbna...
In the past I have written a number of “How to” articles on dotTech explaining how to do various tasks, such blocking Flash ads in Internet Explorer. I’ve decided to continue with my series of “How to” articles. (Ignor...
Being able to automatically make my computer come out of stand by has always been a novelty idea for me. Being able to make it come out of stand by and hibernation is like heaven. Being able to do tasks and send it back to standby...
Computer crashes have you down? Random blue screens making you sing the blues? The problem could be your RAM. Try out Memtest86+, a free open source piece of software that runs stress testing on your RAM. Often when your compute...
Are you an unorganized personality like me? Yes, I must say, it is really hard for people like us to keep track of all our files… especially the ones we download. I often find myself, amongst other things, downloading my lec...
The other day at work I overhead the following conversation: Person1 with a new laptop that has not been connected to the wireless network yet: “Do you know what the password is to the wireless Internet?” Person2 with ...
