Here you will find tips, tricks, and guides on various different topics, but mainly focused on computers.
Every program and its grandmother wants to start up automatically at Windows boot. Why? I have no bloody idea. Apparently developers think forcing their program down the throats of users is the best way to gain popularity and loya...
Rogue security software are probably one of the most popular ways for scumbags to swindle money out of computer users. Indeed, it takes just a simple advertisement proclaiming “your computer is infected, clean it now” ...
Reviewed by dotTech, and used by many, Microsoft Security Essentials is a terrific product created by Microsoft to help address the ever growing malware issue. Being fairly new, until yesterday MSE was only v1; now, Microsoft has ...
Between freebies and freeware, dotTech has talked about many, many video converters and quite a few video downloaders. So, you ask, what is the point of talking about more video converters and downloaders? Well, first of all, it n...
Last October I compared and contrasted two file “unlocking” software, LockHunter and Unlocker. Back then Unlocker was only supported on 32-bit machines whereas LockHunter was available for 32-bit and 64-bit. This, howe...
Forgot your Windows password? Need to recover/get rid of it? One solution is using Ophcrack. However, Ophcrack has a few problems with it. For one, it can only crack passwords which are 14 characters or less in length. Secondly, ...
You have a bazillion things going on in your life. You think you can manage them all using just your hippocampus. In reality, you can’t. That is why there is Rainlendar. Rainlendar Overview Rainlendar is a terrific multi-pla...
How many CDs, DVDs, and/or USB drives do you take with you when you go help someone with their PC? One? Two? Fifty-seven? Cut that number down with XBoot. Image credit: One and Two –> XBoot Overview XBoot, a relatively ne...
Apple makes cool toys. However, Apple has not-so-cool restrictions on these toys. Apple likes to build a “walled garden” around its gadgets: You can’t buy or download apps they don’t approve of, and donR...
Forget your Windows password? Yes? How are you going to log in! If you don’t know your password, it can really take away from that whole “using of the computer” idea. Thankfully, a bunch of Swiss developers have...
During my unannounced getaway from dotTech, there was a time when I wasn’t sure about the status of this website. What will happen to dotTech? Would I continue to update dotTech? Has dotTech officially reached its point-of-n...
Last year I wrote an article on how to get your own custom e-mail address using a free CO.CC domain; last week I added on to that article by explaining how that CO.CC domain can be used for a custom e-mail address and a website at...
2010 is coming to an end; dotTech has reviewed and featured dozens upon dozens of programs/apps/services in the past twelve months. It is now time to recap the best ones. The following list – in no particular order – c...
You have a pretty new iPhone/iPad/iPod; and for the life of you, you cannot figure out why Apple would invest so much in the physical design of the device but leave so much to be desired when it came the the icons*. Yawn! Those i...
Part of breaking out of Apple’s walled garden is to access the root file system on your iDevice (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch). Fortunately there are a lot of ways to do it, some being harder than others. In this article I will t...
