One of the strongest memories I have of my grandfather is watching him sit down in the afternoons with a glass of iced tea and listening to the police scanner. As a kid, I never really got the appeal. But today, just hearing a pol...
Who ever painted this is very talented.
Linux users make demands to Microsoft. But Microsoft knows their weakness.
Revenge of the Teachers, coming to a classroom near you.
You have to be a gamer to appreciate this.
Feedly, a news aggregator and RSS reader app available on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Android, and iOS, anticipated the end of Google Reader and were ready for it. As soon as Google announced the end of Google Reader, Feedly made pos...
Last year we wrote a post that provided five tips on how to create strong passwords and have secure accounts. Now I’d like to take the opportunity to provide another password-related tip — the idea that you should use ...
3D printing has been in the headlines a lot recently, due to its increasing popularity and people’s general interest in being able to create whatever they want with a printer. Cody Wilson, a second year 25-year-old law stude...
How many dotTechies text while driving? It appears that common sense regarding texting while driving is not as common as we would hope. According to a study by the American Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a lot of people text w...
Want to do some 3D printing with spending thousands of dollars it would take to purchase a 3D printer? Then Dreambox has you covered. Dreambox is a 3D printing kiosk developed by three students at UC Berkeley. Slated to go into op...
Sad by the demise of Google Reader? Feedly already has plans on building a Google Reader clone. If you don’t want to go with Feedly or other alternatives, you now have another option — Digg. Digg has announced in a blo...
Prior to its release, many people predicted Galaxy S4 would outshine iPhone 5, the latest iteration of Apple’s mighty device. Galaxy S4 has been announced and that excitement has dampened down. However, Apple is clearly stil...
This is, simply put, a stunning photo.
This message was "sent from my iPhone".
Take a guess.
Back in my day you were lucky to have your own landline.
After it was announced earlier this month that Google would be discontinuing its Google Reader service, fans of Reader freaked out. A petition to save Reader has already reached over 100,00 signatures, but it is unclear whether Go...
One of my all-time favorite Eddie Izzard bits comes from his classic “Dress to Kill” recording at San Francisco. He’s talking with the audience about their fair city, and transitions to a bit about the fog to a b...
A few days ago dotTech reviewed PixelApp Magic Skin Filter, a program that aims to enhance photos of people. PixelApp has a similar program but this one enhances landscape photography — Magic Landscape Filter. Let’s se...
dotTech has an excellent review on best free desktop search program for Windows. However, if you have not yet found a desktop search program which you like, then you have come to the right place. Locate32 is a lightweight and simp...
On the Android platform it is very easy to find web browsers but is very hard to find a good web browsing app. There are, of course, the mainstream ones namely Chrome, Opera, and Dolphin. However, looking beyond those, Boat Browse...
A good and easy non-linear video editing program is pretty rare on Linux. Luckily, we have OpenShot. OpenShot makes it easy for you to edit your video files and create your own movies on Linux. OpenShot is an open source project a...
You walk into an elevator and...
Everyone who has a job wants a way to do their job more efficiently. Feeling more productive is simply a matter of taking control of your to-do lists and keeping your projects moving smoothly. There are all kinds of tools out ther...
I have a friend who just got a promotion at work, and was trying to calculate how much his pay bump would end up netting him in terms of his annual pay. As someone who’s not exactly good at math, I’m always looking for...
MSI fails at English.
If you have worked in tech support before, you will probably agree with this.
What do you use Google Search for?
It seems like we live in an age where personalization is a big thing. I don’t know if it makes us feel special or if it is the jump-on-bandwagon approach but everyone wants to personalize everything. GE has taken that person...
This post is paid for and written by Neil. The first generation of MP3 players were big, clunky, and they had very poor battery life. They couldn’t hold very many files (songs, podcasts, audio recordings, etc.), either, due to the...
After Samsung’s announcement last night, the stage has been set for the battle for Android phone supremacy. While Samsung has completely dominated as of late, Sony’s Xperia Z and the HTC One look primed to make things ...
In the U.S. intelligence community’s annual review of worldwide threats, normally terrorism would be at the top of the list. But now, the nation’s top officials believe that cyber-attacks are now a greater threat to na...
The other day I reviewed Sakura. I deemed it a basic UNIX terminal emulator with a lot of potential but little power. Today, I bring you Terminator. Terminator is the most powerful UNIX terminal emulator I’ve ever had the pl...
dotTech has covered Reddit clients in the past (e.g. Reddit is Fun), but none are quite as smooth as Bacon Reader For Reddit. Bacon Reader is quite the Reddit client. It’s a refreshing take on Reddit clients for Android. Bac...
There’s something wonderfully satisfying and addictive about “three-in-a-row” matching games. Sliding tiles into place, watching them collapse down…it’s mindless and still tons of fun. I mostly play t...
