Here you will find the best free Android apps across a wide range of categories. Visit dotTech’s Android App Repository for a better viewing experience.
Scared of losing your device, either to theft or personal negligence? While there is no way to ensure 100% chance of recovery of your lost Android device, there are apps out there that will help you in either getting your device b...
Tethering is the ability to share your mobile device’s (phone or tablet) internet connection with other devices, whether that be a computer or another mobile device. Being able to tether (and create a WiFi hotspot) is a nati...
The Achilles heel of smartphones is battery life. You may be able to do almost anything on your device, but when it runs out of battery you can do nothing. We all want to be able to enjoy our expensive phones without having to be ...
The advent of the modern smartphone has brought many unconventional, new functionality to our cell phones. At the same time, it has transformed how we perform conventional cell phone tasks of calling and messaging. VoIP — wh...
Are you being stalked by a creeper? Being bothered by unknown callers? Or maybe continually being spammed by telemarketers? What you need is a call, SMS, and MMS blocker. If you are indeed looking for a call/SMS/MMS blocker, then ...
A few months ago I wrote an article discussing the best free office documents viewer on Android. Now we revisit the realm of office documents, but this time we are looking for the best free office documents editor. Before we discu...
Not all phones/tablets have front facing cameras. However, for the ones that do, video calling/chatting is an exciting feature. However, although the technology has been around for years, video calling/chatting is a resource inten...
OCR (Optical Character Recognition, also known as image-to-text) is a delicacy on PCs; the technology itself has advanced leaps and bounds, but the price of this technology is still out of the reach of many. The good, quality OCR ...
Sticky notes are a great way to serve as reminders for things you need to do/things you need to remember. However, using actual sticky notes can be somewhat of a hassle. With everything becoming digital nowadays, why not replace p...
Originally written on June 10, 2011. Updated on August 10, 2011 to clarify TeamViewer is now available on Android Market. Although nowadays we can pretty much do anything on our smartphones, sometimes there is a need to access our...
Despite what iPhone users may want you to think (they don’t get to use widgets, yet), widgets are a very useful feature of Android. However, sometimes the default widgets (such as the Power Control bar) that come with Androi...
Some of us use the same password for every login. (Very bad idea.) If you are one of these people, you don’t require a password manager. (Unless, of course, you need a password manager to remember all your usernames. Would i...
Does Android have viruses (otherwise known as malware)? Everything has viruses, regardless of what Apple fanboys want you to believe. The real questions are: What are the chances of your Android phone being infected? Do you *have*...
“Unlimited” data plans are a thing of past. For both prepaid and post-paid, most everyone is now on a data plan with a quota (hard cap quota, such as AT&T’s 2 GB a month with overage charges, or soft cap such...
Originally written on June 2, 2011. Updated on June 2, 2011 to include SugarSync. With more and more people using their smartphones for more work than play, it is becoming increasingly important to have access to files across all...
