About Ashraf
Happily married to the most beautiful woman ever, Ashraf is the founder of dotTech. Ashraf spends insane hours on dotTech (usually writing articles but sometimes doing absolutely nothing except staring). Yes he is weird, but he is also very friendly.
Generally speaking, there are three types of emails: (1) traditional email used for communication, such as when you open up Gmail to fire an email to a friend, (2) one-time transactional emails companies or websites send to users ...
Unfortunately, I live in an area where the only broadband service provider is Comcast. So, I have Comcast. Getting started with Comcast was as… Comcastic… as one would expect. Their website is not very clear on pricing...
I’m a fan and user of Avast Free Antivirus on my personal computer. Recently, Avast pushed out an update for their latest and greatest version, Avast Free Antivirus 2016. Unfortunately, among various changes and improvements...
Here in dotTech, we already did a review on the “best free file backup, drive backup (aka imaging), and system backup software” for Windows. However, if you have yet to pick a backup program and are willing to spend so...
My wife and I are complete opposites in many regards of our lives. I’m a science guy; she is art. She cooks and cleans; I eat and unclean. I’m tech-savvy(ish); she is not. As such, we have informally defined roles in o...
Look at the photo to the right. That notice was used as a seal on the plastic bag (which was inside a box) that my recently purchased Toshiba laptop came in. Essentially, the notice says Toshiba has the right to (spy on me) and I ...
A conundrum faced by many website owners is how to increase user / reader engagement; how can we provide quality content while getting our readers to interact with us. One way many (most) websites use is the comments or reviews se...
I finally did it. I finally made the switch. I finally left Google for Yahoo. No, not Google’s Gmail, Android, or Maps. Rather, Google Search. Unfortunately for Marissa Mayer & co at Yahoo, I did not do it willingly and ...
One of the ways web browsers make money is by selling their default search engine spot (aka the search engine a web browser is configured to use out-of-the-box) to the highest bidder. For the longest time, that highest bidder was ...
The kicker? This isn’t the first time a lion has hugged a man.
After details about a critical security bug affecting Internet Explorer 6 to 11 on Windows XP through 8.1 hit the web, it was inevitable that Microsoft would fix the issue and release a patch to keep everyone safe(er). And today M...
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