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Another Windows 8 fail [Image]

Ashraf May 20, 2013 4

The screen resolution on this Windows 8 machine is “too low” to run Music.

France causes problems on Windows [Image]

Ashraf May 18, 2013 1

Error 5086: France

Windows 8 fail [Image]

Ashraf May 6, 2013 4

According to Windows 8, this machine’s My Computer (aka Computer) is “empty”.

This is hilarious: ‘Internet Password Minder’ is a “secure” password storage notebook [Video]

Ashraf May 5, 2013 7

Do you tend to forget your passwords? Then you need ‘Internet Password Minder’, the one notebook you can use to “safely store passwords” and worry no more about “security and identity theft”.

Trying to find your phone by calling it… using your phone [Comic]

Ashraf May 4, 2013 4

Come on, admit it — how many people have done this before?

What a nice way to ruin a really expensive MacBook Pro [Image]

Ashraf May 2, 2013 3

Bling-bling and MacBooks don’t get along.

Lady writes a real letter to a company asking to be unsubscribed from email newsletter [Image]

Ashraf April 29, 2013 14

You can unsubscribe from most email newsletters from a link at the bottom of every email. Apparently this lady didn’t know that. So she wrote a physical letter and sent it via snail-mail asking a company to stop sending her emails.

Windows 8 is an overachiever [Image]

Ashraf April 28, 2013 3

Windows Update is “189% complete”.

What an awesome deal: $0 magazine is being sold at a “discount” for $225! [Image]

Ashraf April 20, 2013 2

Everyone should jump on this right now. Heck, at this price you should buy one for your dog, too.

This is what happens when I try to draw something [Comic]

Ashraf April 18, 2013 1

…And I’m willing to bet this happens with most dotTechies, too.

“Chrome has auto-updated with bettar spell chek” [Image]

Ashraf April 13, 2013 2

Either this an intentional joke or an epic fail by Google.

“What’s my username?” [Humor]

Ashraf April 13, 2013 2

Is it so hard for people to remember their own first and last name?

Microsoft says recent Windows 7 security update is faulty, tells everyone to uninstall update (before it’s too late)

Ashraf April 13, 2013 23

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Every second Tuesday of every month Microsoft issues a bunch of patches for its products, including Windows. This is known as Patch Tuesday. For this this recent Patch Tuesday Microsoft issued a Windows Update for Windows 7, security update 2823324, that “addresses a moderate-level vulnerability that requires an attacker to [...]

This is a hilarious targeted advertisement [Image]

Ashraf March 28, 2013 4

Targeted ads are typically considered undesirable. But sometimes they can provide a good laugh.

BlackBerry fail [Image]

Ashraf March 21, 2013 5

Is this one of the new BlackBerry features?

Is Microsoft serious? They just released an ad bashing Galaxy S III. You know, the outdated model. [Video]

Ashraf March 20, 2013 1

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If you follow tech blogs, you may have read about Microsoft’s recent failed marketing attempts to promote its products such as Surface Pro and Outlook.com. Ready to add another dumb Microsoft advertisement to the list? Look no further than the following ad which compares Nokia Lumia 920 to… Samsung Galaxy [...]

…And this is why hiring people who speak proper English is a good idea [Image]

Ashraf March 16, 2013 25

MSI fails at English.

If spelling is any indication of product quality, do not buy Sony [Image]

Ashraf March 7, 2013 2

Anyone up for some “Buletooth”?

Best in-flight movie ever? [Image]

Ashraf March 2, 2013 4

So apparently airlines use Linux to power their in-flight entertainment. And it doesn’t always work

Google Chrome presents a deep, philosophical dilemma [Image]

Ashraf March 1, 2013 0

Chrome wants to know if you prefer “.jpg” or “.jpg”

Kaspersky tells user to “ignore” Trojan found on computer [Image]

Ashraf March 1, 2013 5

Normal anti-virus tell you to delete Trojans. Kaspersky? Not so much

This poor kid is probably scarred for life after being hit with a basketball like this [Image]

Ashraf February 24, 2013 4

Although I am the stereotypical geek now (who just happens to love playing cricket), in a previous life (aka when I was a child) I used to be very active playing a variety of sports. One of my favorite sports was basketball. Even though I was never very good at [...]

“Hey guys watch my sweet trick!” — funny animated GIF of the day [Image]

Ashraf February 23, 2013 5

When it goes to physically potentially dangerous stuff, as I have admitted before, I am a bit of a panzy. For example, roller coasts scare the shit out of me. So it is safe to say I have not, and never will, skateboard (besides, I do not know how anyway). [...]

“How to park a SUV” — today’s hilarious animated GIF [Image]

Ashraf February 21, 2013 7

I may be wrong but I am guessing most dotTechies are above the age of eighteen and, as such, drive cars. Let’s have it: raise your hand if you are terrible at parking? I know I am, although I would like to think I am improving (at least that is [...]

Another Windows fail thanks to poor Microsoft coding [Image]

Ashraf February 21, 2013 10

Windows is the most widely used operating system in the world, and it has plenty (plenty) of issues. Some people argue these issues are because it is impossible for Microsoft to code for and accommodate all the different hardware out there; others say it is because Microsoft sucks at coding. [...]

Someone accidentally deleted the Wikipedia page on Harlem shake [Image]

Ashraf February 21, 2013 5

Harlem shake is a dance from the 1980s from Harlem — with origins in Africa — that has recently gone viral on the web due to the countless parodies. When most people hear about something they don’t know about but want to learn, they google it. When you google a [...]

Glaring typo on front page of USA TODAY shows the importance of proofreading [Image]

Ashraf February 19, 2013 5

Even though I am a (part-time) blogger and I should know better, I rarely (if ever) proofread. I am just physically and mentally incapable of making myself proofread (sort of like how I am incapable of making myself review the answers to an exam, after I have finished it; very [...]

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