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.
Ever look at a file or folder and wonder why the heck the “size” and “size on disk” are different? Yeah, me too. Until recently I had no idea why these two are different and just brushed it off as some tech...
Software Description The following is a description of Simply Good Pictures, as per the developer: With “Simply Good Pictures” you achieve results, which even professional photographers could only obtain with extensive...
Software Description The following is a description of Ocster 1-Click Backup, as per the developer: Features Fully Automatic: Creates fully automatic backups of your data Easy to use Full system backup: Backup of your whole comput...
Windows Calculator provides you with a fair amount of functionality in terms of mathematical computational needs. However it is an annoying piece of **** to use. One of my biggest grips with Windows Calculator is that you can̵...
Last year in August I wrote about CCEnhancer (it was known as CCleaner Enhancer back then before Piriform made the developer change the name), a simple program that enhances CCleaner (yes, pun intended) by adding cleaning support ...
Software Description The following is a description of Android Converter, as per the developer: Multimedia for Android – originally easy! Convert music, videos and photos for your Android-device: no matter whether mobile-, s...
Do you torrent? My guess is many people do, legally or illegally. A new proof-of-concept website, YouHaveDownloaded, aims to prove your downloading is not anonymous and is being tracked. You Are Being Tracked You may or may not kn...
Hey dotTechies, Earlier today I made an announcement about some potential downtime while I make some changes to dotTech. Well the changes have been made and hopefully almost no one had any downtime. This announcement is intended t...
Just a quick announcement. I am making some back-end changes to dotTech (a post will be made later on exactly what has happened after I have made the changes). I am doing my best to ensure little to no downtime but in the next 24-...
Often times when I am multitasking I copy some text/link/picture/whatever planning on pasting it somewhere else. However before I can paste that information, that I copied, to the proper location I end up copying something else fo...
Software Description The following is a description of CyberLink YouCam 3, as per the developer: Split Mode Apply webcam effects to other open webcam applications using split mode. User Interface An all new slick user interface, w...
Software Description The following is a description of Serif PhotoPlus 10, as per the developer: Powerful enhancement tools Correct common image problems like lighting and red eye. Plus, remove people and object with PhotoPlus’ cl...
Software Description The following is a description of Zentimo, as per the developer: Fast & Reliable Device Safe Removal Highly customizable, informative & powerful device menu Unlike native safe removal tool’s menu...
Ever come across a website where you thought “wow those are great images” (usually on a digital art of photography website) and then proceeded to save them all to your computer one by one? Well save your self the pain ...
Software Description The following is a description of IObit Advanced SystemCare PRO 4, as per the developer: Like hiring your own PC technician inside your computer Advanced SystemCare PRO 4 provides an always-on, automated, all-...