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!
Stock download managers that generally come packaged with browsers like Chrome or Firefox are decent for casual users. If you’re doing a lot of downloading without using a third party download manager though, you’re missing out on...
The Moto X has long been anticipated ever since Google acquired Motorola Mobility. Many knew right away that Google would try their hand at hardware, and at the very least influence how Moto handled their forked software. One of t...
One thing in particular that can be a hassle about the Android operating system, involves uninstalling apps that you no longer use or want. With the system itself, you can only uninstall one app at a time. If you’re plagued with O...
There’s no shortage of audio/music players for Android, or in Google Play. For that matter, there’s no shortage of minimal style players. This next application is probably one of the most minimal you’ll ever have the pleasure of u...
Have you ever wondered how much total time you spend at your computer every day? How about in a month’s time? Have you ever wondered the same about your kids or your spouse? Work Time Monitor is an incredibly lightweight and free ...
If you’re living in a household with several other people, I’m sure there’s been a time or two where you felt like someone snooped through your phone. A personal lock code or pattern lock will take care of that in most situations,...
When it comes to snooping through a computer, or just plain looking at data one of the best ways is to use some type of digital forensics tool. Over time, computers assimilate a large number of hidden files which store information...
One of the defining elements about the Android OS, is that on most devices include software buttons of some kind just above the lower bezel. The buttons are generally the all-familiar back, home and menu keys along with any other ...
When downloading videos, movies and TV shows from torrents and other sources you often end up with files named improperly. A lot of times they include information about their author, format or resolution. It can be a hassle to ren...
The official Facebook app sucks. Even after quite a few improvements and performance updates, it’s still pretty buggy and slow at times. Let’s not even discuss the layout or design of the UI, that’s a completely different beast. T...
System monitoring and information collection software is great, but it often requires interaction. In other words, you generally have to interact with a menu or pull up the window to view the necessary information. There are more ...
Arguably one of the best features added to Android in ICS (4.0) is the lockscreen music controls. When playing music on your device, you can skip tracks, pause and stop playback directly from the lockscreen. It’s incredibly conven...
One particular issue you can run into when starting Windows is that various startup items slow down the initial logon process. This is because the Windows OS also requires a good amount of system resources to get things running sm...
A lot of video player apps offers extensive media management support, like Windows Media Center and even XBMC. Unfortunately, some of them don’t handle content organization in the most useful way. Although XBMC can be custom...
One of the most notable issues with using location tracking on mobile devices and tablets is that it drains the battery considerably. This is because it generally uses a GPS radio to communicate with the necessary elements, in ord...