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.
Earlier today I posted a debby downer about Black Friday deals plus a simple tip on how to get what you want on Black Friday without getting in lines. Now are you ready for some Black Friday humor? What is that I hear? Did you say...
Thanks to the educational value provided by dotTech, we already know Burj Khalifa (located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates) is the tallest building in the world. And we have already seen an aerial shot of Dubai at night, the home o...
If you were old enough (or even born — I wasn’t) back when cell phones (or mobile phones, as some of you non-Yanks like to call them) came into being, I’m sure you remember something a lot bigger, heavier, and le...
With today’s built-in redundancy measures, it is much harder to corrupt a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document than it was in the past. However, corruption still happens. What to do when you have a corrupted Word, Excel, or P...
Thanksgiving is gone. Black Friday has passed. I’m sure some, if not all, of you US-based dotTechies went shopping. Now it is time to spill the beans; tell us in the comments below what cool shit you bought these past two da...
One of Sear’s doorbuster sales this Black Friday* was a 50-inch Toshiba LED HDTV for $299 (which is one of the only, if not the only, real Black Friday deals this year). My brother wanted this TV. Sears was opening their doo...
Black Friday is the name of the Friday following Thanksgiving in the United States where most retailers offer huge discounts on their products. In fact, Black Friday is so huge in the United States that many stores are in the red ...
Last week HTC and Apple signed a 10-year cross-licensing agreement allowing them to use each others patented technology. While the official details about the agreement were not released, an analyst estimated HTC would pay Apple $6...
Although Apple won a $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung earlier this year, the battle between the two is only just beginning. As the legal battle heats up between Samsung and Apple, so has the war of words outside the court roo...
Ever watch a movie or TV show and think “why doesn’t that happen in real life” or “why can’t life be like that”? Yeah, well, the same applies to video games. Actually, no. Take that feeling of &...
We have seen lions before. In fact, we have seen lions multiple times (my personal favorite is the photo of lions strolling on a dirt road). What we haven’t seen until now are white lions. White lions are the same as regular...
Where here has read Greek mythology? I have, unfortunately (fortunately?). If you have read, or know about, Greek mythology, then you know what Mount Olympus is. If you don’t, then I’ll give you a quick crash course ...
The other day I took someone to GameStop to preorder Call of Duty: Black Ops II. That particular day just happened to be the day before (of?) the midnight release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II. As we walked up, two guys were sitti...
It is has been a while since dotTech posted about a freebie. We have sort of drifted away from freebies and more towards reviews and news. However, this opportunity was too good to pass-up — free WinX DVD Ripper Platinum! As...
Yesterday we had a comic on the smartphone generation. Continuing with the smartphone-bashing theme, today’s comic provides a helpful how-to for preventing people from using their smartphones during dinner. Indeed, if you ha...