For users that prefer stock Android over the usual manufacturer skins that we often see, it’s been a pretty good year. During Google’s I/O 2013 developer conference, the company dropped a bomb and announced that a Sams...
If this leak turns out to be legitimate, and according to numerous sources it most likely is, Windows Phone users are about to get a much-needed feature: a notification center. A user on Reddit purchased a Nokia Lumia 920 off of e...
It looks like nobody will be able to compete with Google Maps anytime soon. Last month, rumors of Facebook and even Apple attempting to acquire Waze surfaced. Now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is close to seali...
What would you do if you were sitting at a bus station, or in a public location and you saw an advertisement change before your eyes to incorporate you in the image? If the people who reacted in the video below are any indication,...
Halo: Spartan Assault is the latest game in Microsoft’s popular franchise and it’s coming to Windows 8 devices and Windows Phone as an exclusive title. I have to say, I didn’t see this coming. Halo: Spartan Assau...
You like that title, huh? I can just picture the movie voice guy now, “in a world…” Anyway, let’s get to the actual story, shall we? Street signs are static, and boring, almost as boring as traditional bill...
A common problem that occurs when traveling with luggage is that airline employees can easily misplace said belongings. All it takes is for the bag of personal items to make a wrong turn on the travel belt and it ends up heading t...
It turns out the OUYA isn’t the only Android game console in town. Well, aside from the NVIDIA Shield, GameStick and upcoming Gamepop, of course. You know, that was all wrong let’s just start over. It looks like the OUYA is going ...
Once of the best ways to learn something new, is to mix it with something you love or more specifically something you have fun doing. For example, lots of entertainment programs teach children new languages by allowing them to pla...
The stock Android browser has improved significantly over time, but there are still features missing that many of us would like to see. For example, cross platform support with Chrome would be nice just like we see with Chrome for...
You know, I have both rulers and a tape measure kicking around my apartment, but I’ll be darned if I can actually find the darn things when I need them. Just a few weeks ago, I was listing an item on eBay. I wanted to includ...
So I’m getting ready for a sort-of-fun Mac project: taking an old MacBook I bought in 2008 and souping it up with a solid state drive. Of course, this will entail a fresh install, which is both good and bad. There’s no...
When Microsoft gave us our first official video walkthrough of Windows 8.1, many bemoaned the fact that Microsoft didn’t show off what exactly happens when you press that new Start button. This new video straight out of Comp...
According to a report from the New Zealand Herald, a teenager who has been serving an 11-month home detention asked to spend the rest of his sentence in jail instead. The reason? Well, he ran out of Xbox games to play. The 19-year...
Early last month, users that purchased the 16GB version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 had an unpleasant surprise waiting for them. Despite being called the 16GB version, people soon discovered that they only had around 9GB of storage l...
After basically keeping us all in the dark on the finer details of how the new Xbox One will work since its announcement, Microsoft has finally shed some light on the issue. Today the company released details on the console’...
The department of Transportation in London is doing a Drunk Driving stunt, which was caught on video, where they are basically scaring the crap out of young men in public restrooms. It’s called The THINK! campaign and there&...
In some rather disturbing news, it has been revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans making calls through Verizon’s phone service. The news came from The Guar...
Every time you do a clean install of Windows, you start from scratch. That means you need to install all of your favorite programs all over again, and it also means you need to download and reinstall all the available Windows upda...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple animated GIF that shows text appear one word at a time, sort of like a screedbot, a scrolling typewriter text. This is part 1 in an ongoing series on dotTech intended to tea...
There are a lot of rewards program apps out there. For example, Shopkick is fantastic app that I absolutely adore. You earn points just for walking into your favorite stores and checking in, on top of that you can earn extra point...
One my all-time favorite authors is Warren Ellis, of “Transmetropolitan” and “Gun Machine” fame. In a recent edition of his email newsletter, Ellis drew my attention to an app that sounds really cool. Even ...
I don’t know about you guys, but in our neck of the woods, summer is peak yard sale season. Whether it’s a cramped garage filled with knick knacks and electronics, or a yard festooned with old paperbacks and kid’...
According to Joseph Brown, a developer of hacked carrier updates for iOS, Apple and carriers are “purposefully” throttling the data speeds of the iPhone and iPad to help “even out” the network of some carriers: “Apple ...
Microsoft has had some trouble in selling their Windows 8-based tablets, and now they are starting to become creative in trying to push them harder. Earlier this week we learned that Microsoft was giving away keyboards with the Su...
When the Xbox One was announced last month, the fear that Microsoft instilled on every gamer’s mind was the idea that used games would become a thing of the past. It also raised privacy concerns due its always-online nature....
If you’ve ever read any of my posts here at doTech, then you’ll notice I always refer to how much we rely on technology in modern society. I don’t usually throw in facts to support that point, because I assume it...
Why, this was a pleasant little surprise. If you’re unhappy with the virtual keyboard that comes default on some Android phones like HTC or Samsung, you might have downloaded one of the many available replacements like Swype...
Australian carrier Telstra has said that they recently found the source of a “black spot” (an outage) in their wireless network for several neighborhoods. The source is a beer fridge in a garage in a house in the area....
I’m willing to bet that when you first think of a prison you don’t exactly think of an energy efficient platform. Dr. Margot Krasojevic’s concept of a hydroelectric waterfall prison will actually provide energy to mainland homes, ...
Is Apple’s fabled iWatch actually happening? According to Izvestia, a Russian newspaper, Apple has filed a trademark for the term “iWatch” in Russia. Previous reports have claimed that the iWatch could see a rele...
Remember Nokia’s 808 PureView? The phone wasn’t just notable due it being the company’s last flagship smartphone based on Symbian, but it also made headlines because of its ridiculous-sounding 41-megapixel camera...
This year, Computex has been full of surprises and tons of great new tablets, laptops, phones and everything in between. Gigabyte has just announced their P27K and the P25W gaming laptops. There’s a 15.6-inch, 1080p successo...
Chinese farmer takes his 5,000 ducks for a walk.
Another beautifully picturesque wallpaper.
