Author Archives: Ashraf

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.

[Android] Best free video player

One of the best features on my Samsung Galaxy S was that it supported most, if not all, video codecs and could play almost any type of video. My Nexus S, on the other hand, does not have this extensive codec support; and I am sure...

[Android] Best free Internet firewall

You (probably) have a firewall on your PC, but you don’t think you need a firewall for your phone. I will give you two reasons why you may want to reconsider: Every app and its grandmother wants to be able to access the Inte...

[Android] Best free app manager

Originally posted May 28, 2011. Updated May 29, 2011 to include AntTek App Manager. Updated on June 7, 2011 to clarify a point about Gemini App Manager. You have a zillion apps installed on your shiny Android; but now you need a w...

[Android] Best free image viewer

All Android handsets come with an image viewer, typically the stock image gallery app provided by Google. The problem is many times these image viewers are slow and buggy. For example, on my Nexus S the stock image gallery takes a...

dotTech Promo: Free Backup4All Lite!

dotTech is teaming up with Softland to bring everyone Backup4All Lite for free! Software Description The following is a quick description of Backup4All Lite as per the developer: Backup4all Lite edition implements the basic functi...

[Android] Best free clipboard manager

Having a clipboard manager on your Windows PC is very handy because it makes it easy and convenient to retrieve previously copied content. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do the same on your phone? Sure, for most people cl...

[Android] Best free PDF reader

What is the point of having a smartphone if it cannot read your super-duper-important PDF documents? In this article we take a look at all the free PDF readers/viewers available on Android Market and recommend the PDF reader/viewe...