Well this seems rather silly. Barnes and Noble currently has a deal on offer for Nook owners, if you buy one book then you get another free. Of course, there are only a select number of books that qualify for the offer, and they w...
Portable apps are incredibly useful not only because you can run them from an external USB drive and take them with you wherever you go but also because you can use them on your computer without installation. Being able to run a p...
Do you often transfer files from your computer to your Android smartphone? Do you hate messing with pesky cables and software clients in order to transfer a simple file? There are a lot of reasons why you would want to transfer fi...
Summer vacation is right around the corner, and that means households all across America will soon be resounding with that all-to-familiar refrain, “I’m bored!” Whether you’re looking for a family-friendly ...
Photo captures a rare night in which the northern lights in Iceland light up the Godafoss waterfall and surrounding areas.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel; too bad you probably have to see an ad or two to get there.
This guide helps you deal with common issues related to the shared office printer.
Bling-bling and MacBooks don't get along.
Need to batch convert images to another format? Resize? Rotate? Watermark? Crop? Add or remove EXIF or IPTC tags? Then ImBatch is answering your call. Let’s see if it is worth your time (spoiler: it is definitely worth your ...
Much like how there are many video formats, there are many different image formats. If you frequently work with images, you need something to deal with all these image formats. In other words, you need an image converter. CoolUtil...
In a rather amusing turn of events, Greenheart Games, the developers of Game Dev Tycoon, played a sort of prank on pirates. )No, not the type of pirates that sail the high seas but the ones that illegally download digital content....
FinFisher, also known as FinSpy, is a piece of malware developed by Gamma International and sold to governments of 36 different countries (the US included) to monitor the activities of computer users. The spyware was originally de...
Imagine going to a store without your wallet, purse, credit card, or cash and yet still paying for goods. Thanks to a relatively new system called PayTouch, consumers will be able to make purchases with their fingerprints. Of cour...
Microsoft’s latest attempt to get more users on their platform is an interesting one. The company has released an app called Switch to Windows Phone on the Google Play Store — and it’s of course designed to make ...
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins doesn’t appear to be a very big fan of Apple’s iPad. Or even the company’s own PlayBook for that matter. In an interview with Bloomberg, the CEO made a couple of interesting comments...
Google has previously said that consumer versions of Google Glass aren’t due until another year from now, meaning that most people will only get the chance to own one sometime in 2014. Developers and “Explorers” ...
Every once in a while you run into a situation where you have access to a wired internet connection but you have no wireless router nearby. This can be a real pain especially when you have multiple devices like a smartphone or tab...
Do you hate playing games on a laptop or netbook with a touchpad? Do you ever feel like there may be a better way to game? WanderPlayer for Android is an application that allows you to connect your Android to your PC as an extende...
Gamers of a certain age will always have a soft spot for bad graphics. As much as I might love games with silky smooth graphics and amazing frame rates, I’m always gonna crack a grin when I’m playing a game that’...
Ever seen a white alligator? No? Well now is your chance.
Funny drawing of Firefox vs Chrome... and Internet Explorer.
Google Now has landed on iOS. Let's see how it performs compared to Siri, shall we?
Hey dotTechies, I have gone through roughly three mice in the past three years. Each time the issue is the same: after roughly a year of use, the mouse starts doing double-clicks when I click on something instead of the normal sin...
When it comes to software, there are two types of virtualization: full virtualization and light virtualization. Full virtualization is when you have a fully virtualized operating system, such as installing Windows XP in VirtualBox...
In case you already forgot about it, the Copyright Alert System launched in the US in late February. We covered it pretty extensively. But even if you did completely forget about it, we wouldn’t blame you. A study meant to g...
In the wake of Bill Gates’ controversy in South Korea due to a handshake gone wrong, Google co-founder Larry Page has also visited the country and met with President Geun Hye Park. And as you can see in the image above, he o...
Imagine this, you’re sitting at your desk and you have your new paper thin smartphone clearly visible in front of you. It’s on silent, so it will emit no noise nor will it vibrate because it’s too thin to include a motor. How will...
If you were lucky (or unlucky) enough to catch Samsung’s Galaxy S4 unveiling, you might think that smartphone launches couldn’t get any weirder. But let me tell you know that you are very, very wrong. Samsung’s l...
Everybody knows about the ongoing war between Apple fanboys and Samsung fanboys. It’s inevitable when the two manufacturers constantly rank as the top smartphone vendors in the industry. But doesn’t get a little tiring...
When pictures of the Galaxy S4 began to leak, many realized that the design of the phone wasn’t going to be very different from its predecessor. After Samsung’s official unveiling of the device, that was one of the big...
While it might look very similar, that’s not your Galaxy Tab 2. Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Tab 3: The new tablet has a 7-inch screen, dual-core 1.2 Ghz processor, 3-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front...
Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of Skype is slowly starting to take shape. The next step for integration into Microsoft’s services is here — and now you can make Skype video calls straight from your Outlook.com...
When it’s spring cleaning time or just time to remove some junk from your computer, it can be difficult trying to figure out what software to uninstall. Personally, I always seem to have a lot of apps that I swear I need or will u...
Internet based media streaming services are awesome. Most of them are cheap, cheaper than premium cable anyway, and offer a wide selection of content. There’s one pretty obvious issue that stands out, especially when you use more ...
I don’t know what it is about warm spring days that makes people want to clean house, but spring cleaning is a very real and very powerful impulse. And in our digital age, spring cleaning isn’t just something you do to...
