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.
As I am sure most dotTechies already noticed, I have started a new Ask dotTechies series in which I pose weekly questions to dotTechies. These polls are just “for fun” and informative purposes so everyone can get to kn...
In the most recent Ask dotTechies article, I inquired what is the most popular e-mail service used by dotTechies. Well now the polls have closed and the results are in – Gmail wins by a large margin: [poll id=”3″...
{rw_text}Software reviewed in this article:: Paragon Total Defrag 2010 Version reviewed: v2010 Build 8713 (05.08.09) System Requirements: Windows 7 (x32) / Vista (x32) / 2000 Professional / XP Home Edition / XP Professional; 300 M...
If you have not figured it out yet, my favorite video converter is FormatFactory because it is freeware, supports many input/output format, works fast, and produces great quality videos (FormatFactory can also convert audio, image...
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 18, 2009 is: Wondershare Video to DVD Converter Version reviewed: v1.0.0.11 System Requirements: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7; Processor: >1 GHz Intel or AMD CPU; Free hard ...
If you did not know this already, let me tell you now: The Internet is not a private place. It was never designed to be a private place. The architecture, the core and the pillars, of the Internet was built in a very transparent m...
From the time it was announced to when it was discovered that Microsoft used open source code in WUDT without following proper license guidelines, we, we being mostly Samuel with a little of Ashraf sweeping in to take credit like ...
Hey all, I just wanted to let everyone know Site Content Analyzer 3 is a software aimed at a very small niche of web developers, webmasters, and/or web marketers. Even among that group, Site Content Analyzer 3 is only good for tho...
I have just now finished e-mail the a-squared Anti-Malware Pro 1 year licenses (it took me a really, really, really long time to send out all the email =X). Since I had so many licenses, everyone that asked in the comments of the ...
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 15, 2009 is: Aimersoft HD Video Converter Version reviewed: v2.2.0.41 System Requirements: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7; Processor: >750MHz Intel or AMD CPU; Free HD space: ...
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 14, 2009 is: Save Tube Video Version reviewed: v1.0 System Requirements: Windows 2000, XP, Vista Software description as per GOTD: Save Tube Video allows to download any online video right...
E-mail is, undoubtedly, one of the most popular, if not the most popular, medium for communication today. So, I am curious, what e-mail service do dotTechies mainly use? Now I know many people have multiple e-mails from many diffe...
Last week I poised a simple question to all dotTechies: What internet browser do you mainly use? Well the polls have closed and the results are decisive. Firefox is the browser of choice for most dotTechies: [poll id=”2̸...
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 13, 2009 is: Inspiration Library Version reviewed: v1.73 System Requirements: Windows Vista Home Basic, 2000, 2003, WinXP Software description as per GOTD: Collect interesting, original, b...
Yesterday, Emisoft ran a 24-hour promotion giving away free 1 year licenses for a-squared Anti-Malware Pro. The promotion was open to the whole public so anyone had the opportunity to get it. However some people may have not been ...