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.
Yesterday we saw a stunning photo of winter scenery at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, United States. Today we have yet another stunning nature photo to share with you. The following photo shows Orion, Taurus, and the Pleiade...
Freemake Video Converter is an excellent program for converting audio and video files into other formats; it supports almost every input and output format you can imagine. Did you know it can also double as a program to cut, join,...
For all the great things Microsoft has done for the world (and mind you, they have done some great things — nobody can rightly deny that, regardless of how much you hate Microsoft), they get a lot of crap from a lot of peopl...
Living in the United States and having a name of Arabic origins is, for the lack of a better word, interesting. Rarely can anyone properly say my name. And I have to give a fake name whenever I go to Starbucks because otherwise th...
It has been a while since we shared an Amazing Photo of the Day of national beauty. To make up for the extended hiatus, today we have an absolutely gorgeous shot to share with you today. The following photo is of Crater Lake Natio...
Last week we saw photos of the ‘Death Cage’, a tourist attraction where people get inside a pool with a crocodile. Today we have another crocodile photo to share with you. This one, however, is a bit different. This on...
What happens when your printer runs out of ink or toner? I don’t know about you but when my printer needs attention, a little light flashes on my Brother informing me to replace the toner. The Xerox WorkCentre 6505, however,...
How many dotTechies watch Jeopardy? I do not… not anymore anyway, I used to as a kid with my dad. How many dotTechies watched today’s (Feb 6, 2012) Jeopardy? I wish I had watched Jeopardy today because, if I had, I wou...
For some reason, we humans like destruction, particularly blowing stuff up. While I’m sure all of us ‘normal’ people probably won’t blow anything up in our lives, that doesn’t stop us from enjoying th...
I am sure everyone has heard a derivative of the joke “how many [insert name here] does it take to screw in a light bulb”. However, I am sure none of you heard the following version: how many tigers does it take to cat...
How many dotTechies live in an apartment or otherwise non-one story home? If you do, care to describe what your worst nightmare is in relation to your home? Fire? Flood? How about… coming home from a hard day of work and fin...
We have already seen how it is like to drive on the Moon. Now let’s find out how astronauts wash their hands in space. (At this rate we will be experts on space travel in no time.) Check it out: …Canadians have astrona...
You have some images (photos, digital art, screenshots, etc.) you want to share online but don’t want other people stealing your work. What do you do? You watermark the images before sharing them, that way it is extremely di...
Having family that lives in other parts of the world, since a kid I have been a regular traveler by air. I remember when I was younger we were allowed to carry two checked-in bags weighing 70 lbs each, didn’t have to pay ext...
How many dotTechies drive cars regularly, or drove cars regularly in a past life? My guess is most. How many dotTechies have gotten into major accidents? I hope none. In my short time as a driver, I have only had a small fender be...