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.
Seeing as the iPhone 4 was one of the the first phones in the United States to offer a front-facing camera and video calling, FaceTime was (is?) a much hyped service. The only problem with FaceTime is that it only works over WiFi....
Windows SteadyState, a once promising tool, has been discontinued by Microsoft. Why? I am not particularly sure why; it was (is) a useful program that had (has) excellent Windows integration, something missing in other tools like ...
On March 15, 1985 the first domain name was created: Symbolics.com. By 1992, a modest 15,000 existed. Can anyone guess how many domains are registered now, in 2010? I will give you a hint: The number contains more zeroes than my p...
{rw_text}Software reviewed in this article: AyRecovery Lite Version reviewed: v1.2.0.0 Software description as per the developer: AyRecovery Lite is a HDD instant recovery program and also a must-have toolkit for every PC owner. I...
Two weeks ago dotTech ran a 72-hour promotion of Returnil System Safe Pro 2011, giving away 1 year licenses for free. The participation in the promotion was great, with thousands of people taking advantage of the freebie. There ar...
We see spam in our inbox. We see spam on forums. But have you seen forum spam… in your inbox? Lately I have been receiving this new kind of spam, and have decided to share it with the world, so we can all laugh at and ridicu...
Every program and its grandmother wants to start up automatically at Windows boot. Why? I have no bloody idea. Apparently developers think forcing their program down the throats of users is the best way to gain popularity and loya...
Rogue security software are probably one of the most popular ways for scumbags to swindle money out of computer users. Indeed, it takes just a simple advertisement proclaiming “your computer is infected, clean it now” ...
{rw_text}Software reviewed in this article: Simpo PDF to PowerPoint Version reviewed: v1.1.0.0 Software description as per the developer: Simpo PDF to PowerPoint Converter is a professional PDF converter helps to convert PDF docum...
Reviewed by dotTech, and used by many, Microsoft Security Essentials is a terrific product created by Microsoft to help address the ever growing malware issue. Being fairly new, until yesterday MSE was only v1; now, Microsoft has ...
Software Description The follow is a description of Ad-Aware Pro Internet Security as per the developer: Complete Malware Protection, including Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Ad-Watch Live! Expert Real-time Protection Genocode Detect...
Between freebies and freeware, dotTech has talked about many, many video converters and quite a few video downloaders. So, you ask, what is the point of talking about more video converters and downloaders? Well, first of all, it n...
{rw_text}Software reviewed in this article: Foxreal Youtube FLV Downloader Pro Version reviewed: v1.0.1.1 Software description as per the developer: Foxreal YouTube FLV Downloader Pro is an all-in-one YouTube downloader and FLV co...
Last October I compared and contrasted two file “unlocking” software, LockHunter and Unlocker. Back then Unlocker was only supported on 32-bit machines whereas LockHunter was available for 32-bit and 64-bit. This, howe...
{rw_text}Software reviewed in this article: Aneesoft HD Video Converter Version reviewed: v2.9.1.0 Software description as per the developer: Aneesoft HD Video Converter is the best HD video converter that converts among HD video ...