You might remember a certain reality TV show we mentioned last week that will see contestants traveling to and living on Mars. Well, you can now submit an application to be part of the team when the journey starts in 2023. It’s go...
As it would turn out, Google Now may not be unique to the Android platform after all. Thanks to a recent development, it looks like Google may be gearing up to take the Google Now service to the web. Surprisingly, this is directly...
If you’re an avid Xbox user, and a serious mobile smartphone deviant (yes it probably constitutes as a deviant always playing with gadgets so much) then you probably already know what Xbox Smartglass is. It’s a proprietary app dir...
Every once in a while, you run into a situation in the real world where various tools come in handy. The same concept holds true when using a smartphone. Sometimes you just want access to a basic tool that isn’t bogged down with a...
Uploading images to Facebook is pretty easy, if you’re not uploading them in large quantities. Downloading images from Facebook and saving them on your computer can be a colossal pain, especially since you have to download them on...
One of the coolest things that you can do with a camera, especially with DSLR models, is shoot a time-lapse video. Basically, the camera leaves the shutter open for a certain period of time, all the while capturing frames and spli...
One of the best things about Chromium open source project is that it can be modified and used to create different browsers. Take RockMelt, for example, a social browser that uses Chromium technology. (Unfortunately, RockMelt has b...
Here’s a fascinating one for you dotTechies. Samsung is exploring the idea of producing technology that interacts with brainwaves. They’re hoping they can build a tool that lets you use your mind to control a tablet or smartphone....
We’ve all heard the stories about malware and Android. Many believe the claims to be false, especially considering most malware has to be actively installed by the user before it can cause any damage. The biggest problem with malw...
Well this is a little disconcerting, to say the least. An employee, now ex-employee, of the web hosting company Hostgator has been arrested and formally charged for installing a backdoor Trojan on web hosting servers. His infected...
There is a ton of Instagram-like apps for mobile devices, but PC users are left in the dark. Sure, there’s always Photoshop, Gimp and a plethora of other photo editing apps but what if you just want to apply some hipster filters?...
There are plenty of apps in the Play store that allow you to customize your text messaging experience in Android. For example, Go SMS Pro is one such app. Most of them change up the formula a bit and let you reconfigure your messa...
You know that saying, stranger things have happened? Yeah, well it applies to this next story particularly well. Bogus coupons are a pretty common thing. Every so often a coupon will emerge, people will go crazy, and some folks wi...
Knock-offs seem to be a lot more prominent these days, especially in the mobile industry. There are some products that you never expect to be copied, but more surprising things have happened. Take this next story for example, abou...
It would appear Microsoft and Bing have run into a bit of a problem. I mean besides the fact that Bing is not quite as useful a search engine of course. Then again, this issue will only affect those smart dotTechies out there usin...
