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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.
When it comes to protecting important files, there are two trusted methods — encryption and steganography. As it so happens to be, dotTech has a review on the best free encryption software for Windows and the best free stega...
Programs leave behind temporary files. In many cases, it is recommended to delete those temp files. You can either do it manually or use a privacy cleaning/temp file cleaning program. dotTech has a review on the best free system/p...
Over the past few weeks, dotTech has reviewed multiple data recovery tools and the conclusion in pretty much all of them is the same — go for freeware Testdisk & PhotoRec instead. Today we have yet another data recovery ...
Like millions of other people, I block ads for most websites on my computer and selectively allow ads for websites which I want to support — websites which I feel deserve to have my support, particularly ones that don’...
Hard drives, especially traditional non-solid state drives, are one of the least reliable pieces of hardware in your computer. Indeed, if anything is going to be fail on your computer, chances are it is the hard drive. This is why...
Whether we like it or not, PDF format is live and kicking used by individuals, businesses, and education institutes alike. Since PDF is still in use, it goes without saying you should have the tools required to create PDF files. B...
The good thing about having so many video file formats is that it gives choice. The bad thing about having so many video file formats is that not all devices support all the same formats, which is why many people need to make use ...
Over at SharewareOnSale, we run WooCommerce on top of WordPress. WordPress is a blogging-platform-gone-CMS and WooCommerce is an eCommerce package that expands the abilities of WordPress. Over the past few days, we have had an iss...
Watching Blu-rays and DVDs is extremely easy using a Blu-ray or DVD player; pop in your disc and go. On your computer, however, it isn’t as easy due to restrictions placed by DRM protection. Blu-rays and DVDs not protected b...
Copy/cut and paste is a great feature found in Windows (and other operating systems); it allows you to easily move data from one place to another on your computer. However, the issue with Windows Clipboard is it only keeps track o...
As you all know, converting scanned documents into electronic files is not the easiest process in the world. There are a few programs out there that claim to do this, but most of them fall well short of completing this goal. PDF O...
dotTech has a review on best free backup software for Windows. Pick any of the file-level backup programs mentioned in that review, and you will be able to successfully and happily backup your files. However, the freeware programs...
For whatever reason, sometimes we are in a situation where we must recover lost or deleted files. For those needs, dotTech has a review highlighting the best free file and data recovery software for Windows. Not happy with our sug...
Hi friends, I want to give everyone a heads up that our sister site, SharewareOnSale, will be running a sale of iSkysoft PDF Editor tomorrow (Friday, Nov 15). iSkysoft PDF Editor is a fully functional PDF editor for Windows. We wi...
dotTech has a review on best free PDF to DOC/RTF converter for Windows plus a review of best free PDF creators/printers for Windows. So, ideally, you should already have an excellent PDF to DOC/RTF converter plus a PDF printer/cre...