If you somehow fell down Niagara Falls (167 ft [51 m] height), do you think you would survive? Eh, if you are lucky. Maybe. If you somehow fell down Dragon Falls (3,200 ft [975 m] height), do you think you would survive? I’l...
Firefox 17 is out and it comes with one new big feature: Facebook Messenger. Yes, you read it right — Facebook Messenger is now integrated as a native application in Firefox… no add-on required to use it! However, it c...
How long do you think companies work on products before releasing them? A month? Two months? Six months? A year? Two years? It actually depends on what company and what product you are talking about. In the case of Microsoft and W...
Mozilla continues to chug along the Firefox road with the release of Firefox 17. (Now I’m so used to writing this same line every few weeks, I cannot even think of something clever to say.) As is typical of Firefox releases,...
Enjoy your Amazon 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD? I bet you will enjoy it more once it is rooted. This guide will show you how to root it! Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. dotTech and its writers are ...
Via our Comic section, dotTech has already shared some commentary on our technology (specifically, phones) obsessed generation. Here is some more of the same. How many dotTechies out there cannot believe how “fast” or ...
Ever had a meal while 25,000 feet (7,620 m) in the air? No, no — not on an airplane but rather in the open sky with simply a table and two chairs to accompany you (and your food, of course)? Yeah, you probably haven’t;...
How many dotTechies use a social network, may that be Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Orkut (people still use Orkut?), etc.? If you are on a social network, have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have nothing to say to...
As I’ve mentioned before, we humans seem to be infatuated with animals. To further feed your interest (and keep you hooked, so you keep coming back to dotTech), today I have to share with you a photo of polar bears. Check ou...
Google and Bing both have an ‘autocomplete’ feature that attempts to predict what you want to search for. The predictions provided by Google and Bing depend on two factors: what other users searched for and your past s...
iFixit has got their hands on a Nexus 4 and took it apart. Most of what they found was expected: NFC, battery, GSM/EDGE chips, processor, etc. One thing, however, did surprise — an LTE chip. According to the iFixit teardown,...
Be honest — how many of y’all check product reviews online (whether that be a reviewing website or an online retailer with customer submitted reviews, like Amazon or Newegg) prior to purchasing a product? Don’t w...
We like photos of animals and nature, yes. However, man-made attractions are often amazing, too — especially if combined with nature, as is the case with Hayman Hotel. Hayman Hotel is a luxury resort situated on the Great Ba...
Head over to a patent on the website of United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Chances are, the patent has images that go along with it. Click on the “Images” button on the patent page and you will be taken...
Thanks to the ongoing patent wars, most of us probably don’t think too highly of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The fact that they just granted Apple a patent for turning pages in an eBook probably is...
