About Briley Kenney
Briley is a tech/gaming journalist, and electronic gadget enthusiast. Briley writes for several online publications including Android Headlines, Blackberry Rocks, The Tech Labs and of course dotTech. His most recent project involved working on a turn based RPG called Tales of Illyria, which is now available in Google Play!
Have you ever had to do a repetitive and mundane task on your computer which involved a lot of interaction with the mouse? MouseController is a portable Windows application that allows you to record mouse actions and then play the...
Smartphones are designed to suitably match on-the-go lifestyles. One of the best things about mobile devices, especially Android is that you can jump in and out of apps almost instantly. In addition, you can leave multiple apps r...
This next app has actually been around for quite some time, yet it still continues to receive regular updates. As of the time of this writing, the latest version was released on May 25, 2013. SE-TrayMenu is an application and syst...
One of the best things about the Google Play Store is that there always seems to be a great selection of apps and games on sale. Unfortunately, most of us are too busy to check the app store for good deals every day. Especially wh...
I’ve always been a firm believer in that I know there’s a better way to setup homescreen icons and shortcuts in Android. While some launchers do allow you to use custom themes to swap out the way icons look a bit, they generally d...
Recently I covered a pretty neat Windows program that added an Android Sense-like widget to the desktop called HTC Home. It’s a desktop clock that also shows weather updates, but it does have some quirks. What if you don’t want th...
Apps, apps, apps. Today’s handsets are all about the apps, and it only seems right. Mobile handsets are designed to get you in and out fast while you’re on the go, and that’s exactly what apps do- well, most of them anyway. What c...
Douglas Engelbart, the man responsible for the invention of the computer mouse, has died at age 88. His original creation was almost nothing like the various touchpads and laser mouse peripherals we use today, but they all stem fr...
A new project has cropped up on Indiegogo, which is a crowdfunding platform much like Kickstarter, that proposes an actual hoverboard device. Remember those awesome hoverboards from Back to the Future III that saw Marty McFly crui...
Don Mattrick recently stepped down from his position with Microsoft, also forfeiting his realignment as head of the hardware division, which he would have become in an upcoming in-house reorganization. Instead, he took a role at Z...
Minimalism is all about being subtle, yet stylish. The idea is to break something down to its simplest form, thus exposing pure beauty. Minimal is an especially beneficial concept when you start talking about the mobile field. Unf...
When you create a shortcut for an application in Windows, the system displays a very small icon over the image. It looks like a little curved arrow, and it basically helps you determine the shortcuts from the real executables. The...
Who doesn’t like deals? I’d argue that everyone does, and that’s why services like Groupon, LivingSocial and Google Offers do so well. So naturally, any deal app for Android is going to do just as well, right? I don’t really know ...
Wouldn’t it be great to have X-ray vision? You could see through walls, and check out what other people are doing. No one would be able to sneak up on you. You could even see your neighbors… okay… nevermind maybe it would be a bad...
In a rather strange turn of events, not long after Microsoft did a complete 360 in regards to how the Xbox One will work (see what I did there) Xbox Chief Don Mattrick has left the company. He has now taken over as CEO of Zynga. T...