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.
Want to know the secrets of how to make your video go viral on the internets? Don’t worry, I may have the answer you are looking for. All the secrets to going viral with your home video are dished out in the following video,...
Okay, be honest: how many of you pirate stuff (aka take part in file sharing aka peer-to-peer activity aka torrenting aka call it whatever the hell you want), whatever that stuff maybe? On second thought, don’t be honest ...
Yesterday we saw a few photos of powerless New York City, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy (or Storm Sandy, as some alliteration fans like to call it). While those photos are, without a doubt, great, they didn’t do a very...
Google is already in hot waters with the European Union and is being looked at by the United States Federal Trade Commission for allegations of anti-competitive behavior in regards to Google Search. Now reports are emerging that s...
Here on dotTech we love drop tests. Not necessarily for their scientific nature, because we all know drop tests don’t provide conclusive evidence as to which device survives a drop better. Rather, we just like carnage. So we...
Disney has bought Star Wars. What is a natural transition that results from that particular transaction? Darth Vader and his minions going to Disneyland, of course! Disney obviously isn’t oblivious to the LucasArts-Star-Wars...
After reading the title of this article, you must be thinking “sounds like what HTTPS Everywhere does”. No, not exactly. You see there are some websites out there that use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), a proto...
You know that public statement Apple was ordered to issue in UK newspapers, magazines, and on Apple’s UK website about how Samsung did not copy the iPad; the one that a UK Appeals Court told Apple to reissue because of the c...
When you open a new cell phone line in the United States, you (typically) get a cell phone number that has an area code of the area in which you currently live. Way back when before national roaming become the norm, people would o...
Hurricane Sandy wrecked havoc on Caribbean and Mid-Atlantic nations before making landfall and destroying everything in its path in the northwestern United States and parts of Canada. In total, it is estimated that Sandy caused $5...
Enjoy the SNL iPhone 5 skit? Yeah, me too. While this new Apple parody isn’t as funny as the SNL iPhone 5 one, it is still damn funny. This parody, which you can view in the video above, is an ad that pokes fun of Apple prod...
Kaspersky Labs, a digital security firm, releases a quarterly “IT Threat Evolution” report. For the Q3 2012 report, one section provides information as to what programs have the most widely spread vulnerabilities. I...
Earlier this year Samsung announced their mega-hit Galaxy S III was sold 10,000,000 times in less than two months, then back in September we learned the device was bought by 20,000,000 people in less than 100 days after debut. Now...
So you like your daily (hourly?) dose of porn. Cool, have fun. Just remember to not share it via peer-to-peer channels… otherwise you may end up with a multi-million dollar fine, not to mention public embarrassment. Flava Wo...
While it may not be the same blockbuster hit as its brother the Galaxy S III or its rival the iPhone 5, the 5.5-inch bahumet Galaxy Note II is making a strong case for manufacturers to incorporate large(r) displays into smartphone...