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.
We all like getting new phones, right? In all the excitement of a new cell phone, many consumers forget about the battery. After all, the battery is just the thing you throw into the cell phone to make it work – why must we ...
Want to truly personalize your computer? Then you need to edit the OEM information of your computer. OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer — companies like Dell, HP, Gateway, Acer, Asus, Samsung, etc.) information is the stuf...
As technology progresses, it seems that we are continually downloading larger and larger files. The problem with download large files is that sometimes the file may get corrupt while downloading. Also, with the increase in file ho...
Software Description The following is a description of O&O DriveLED 4 Professional Edition, as per the developer: No other single part of the modern computer system is more susceptible to malfunction than the hard disk. In fac...
Some people have voiced reservations about Firefox’s latest releases — reservations regarding issues like bloated-ness, crashes, and overly fast releases. I myself find since Firefox 4, Firefox has been crashing a lot ...
The title says it all. A man won a $380,000 Lamborghini – at what appears to be a raffle at some football game – and then crashed it six hours later: Clearly he can’t drive stick. On the bright side, I’m su...
Software Description The following is a description of mirabyte FrontFace, as per the developer: FrontFace is a new, innovative user interface (UI) extension for the Microsoft Windows operating system. While Windows was made for t...
Think you (or someone you know) have weak passwords? Then you (or the person you know) need to read dotTech’s advice on how to have strong passwords. Still unsure about your (or someone else’s) passwords? Then give Pas...
Missed out on Office app promotions from Amazon Appstore? No need to worry. Here is another chance to get full-fledged Office app for free. This time it is Smart Office Plus and this time it is from GetJar Gold so there are no sil...
In what can be considered another indirect blow to Android, today a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled Motorola Mobility has violated a Microsoft patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,370,566) that deals with “generating me...
If you follow the mobile industry in the USA in even the slightest, chances are you heard about how AT&T signed a deal with Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA’s parent company, to purchase T-Mobile USA. Since that deal was a...
With the recent rapid releases of Firefox, there may be a desire to test the latest release of FF before upgrading to ensure add-on compatibility, etc. There are many ways to go about testing the latest release of Firefox includin...
Note: This freebie was originally posted about back in December of 2010. That specific offer has since expired but the same freebie is now available from a different source. Therefore I have republished this post to let everyone k...
Remember that legal battle over patents Apple has with, um, everyone? Yeah, well, Apple 1, HTC 0. Yesterday the U.S. International Trade Commission passed final judgement on the matter of Apple’s complaint that HTC devices w...
You know what is one of the most annoying things ever? Someone (or something) changing the icon configuration on my desktop. It drives me nuts; I have the icons in a certain config for a reason and when someone/something changes i...