Would you like to sync your files with family and friends across the web? I am not just talking about uploading files, but actually syncing them. Thanks to Tonido Portable you can, and you don’t even have to install anything...
In Windows 8, you can only open a Windows Store app from Start screen. As I work mostly in Windows 8’s traditional desktop environment, I really needed a way to open Windows Store apps from the desktop instead of having to g...
eBay + PayPal Calculator, developed by Sheng Shao, is a bare bones calculation tool for eBay sellers to calculate their shipping costs, fees, and profit margins for their listings. What is it and what does it do Main Functionality...
Let me don’t waste your precious time making you read things you might already be aware of. Read on to find how you can get your Samsung Galaxy Nexus rooted, while you would also be unlocking the bootloader of your device an...
You have a shiny new Nexus 10 on your hands. Want to unlock its full potential? Then you need root — and this guide shows you exactly how to root your Nexus 10! Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to&#...
Some days I need a shot of caffeine to keep me from falling asleep. Whenever I go to Starbucks, I make sure to order iced coffee (or tea, for that matter). Want to know why? They make the coffee so bloody hot that I need to wait 5...
We have seen lions. We have seen tigers. But we haven’t seen ligers. A liger is the offspring of a male lion and female tiger. Because lions and tigers are in the same genus, they are able to technically breed with each othe...
Beside Start screen, live tiles, and Modern UI, Picture Password is another cool feature of Windows 8. Essentially Picture Password allows you to pick a picture and draw a pattern on the picture; that pattern then becomes your unl...
Google is looking to use the real world as the basis for Ingress, a free mobile game for Android devices. This new game, developed by Google’s app development team Niantic Labs, is an augmented reality game in which the scie...
Whoa, wait a second. What do we have here? Is that Google looking to move into the wireless business? My, yes it is. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google and Dish Network are in negotiations for Google to use or acquir...
Downloading videos, music, and Flash games off the internet can be a pain. This goes double if you’re trying to grab multiple files at once. That is where Orbit Downloader comes in to help. This is a freeware program that is made ...
Picture Effects is an application that aims to combine all popular picture effects into one app. This app is perfect if you are using several picture sharing services. It combines all the great features of these services into one ...
Are you sick of how long it takes to defragment your computer? The truth is, we should all defragment our computers regularly, but most of us simply don’t ever get around to it. Well, maybe WinContig can help. This is a prog...
I’ve always heard good things about Google’s headquarters, from nap areas to being able to work on your own personal projects on paid time. A list published by Great Places To Work on the 25 best places to work around ...
Are you on a seafood-rich diet? Then you need to download Seafood Watch, an iPhone app developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This app helps you to choose the healthiest and most environmentally-friendly seafood dishes when going...
So you bought the beast known as HTC Droid DNA (for Verizon Wireless). Now you want to root it and install ClockworkMod Recovery. This guide shows you exactly how to do that. Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “...
If you purchased a 32GB tablet, I’m sure you weren’t expecting exactly 32GB to store all your music, photos, and files. But I’m also sure you were expecting it to at least be around the neighborhood of 32GB. Mayb...
If you are an Apple investor or have been following Apple stock, you probably know how moody it can be. Some days it will shoot up like there is no better stock then other days it will plunge, hard. (It seems to be doing more of t...
Out of all the animals featured on dotTech’s Amazing Photo of the Day segment, we have yet to cover gorillas. We have seen monkeys, but not gorillas. Want to see a gorilla? Okay, let’s. Check out the photo below. (And,...
Siri was the big thing Apple used to sell iPhone 4S. However, Apple has never really been adept at providing services that depend on the collection, management, and sorting of data. As such, Siri — while entertaining, at tim...
Do you use avast!, either the free version or their paid offerings? If so, last month you probably were prompted with popups asking you to take part in a Windows 8 survey Avast was conducting. Well those survey results are in and ...
Previously we reported Samsung has raised the prices on Apple, maybe because of legal issues the two companies are having or maybe other reasons. According to iDB, an article in the Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh contains comments...
Have you ever been bothered by that awful noise your phone makes when it vibrates against a table? Isn’t it very common for that noise to be even louder than the phone itself? Better yet, doesn’t this seem to always ha...
Foxconn, responsible for manufacturing hardware of companies like Apple, Sony, Nintendo and more, has begun replacing factory workers with robots. These plans were made known by the company as far back as last year and are now beg...
Transferring files between devices has never been so easy. Thanks to Dukto Portable R5, you no longer have to worry about standard protocol, operating systems, permissions, etc. Simply start Dukto Portable R5 on the two devices yo...
Extreme Road Trip 2 is a fast paced scrolling-style game that will test and push your reflexes. This game is designed for those who are constantly looking for excitement and love going at fast speeds. It will be great for people w...
Have you ever needed to rename a whole group of files? If so, you know that this is a task that can be kind of tiresome. The good news is it doesn’t have to be! BatchFileRenamer will not only help you rename all of these fil...
Hibernate is a very usable feature that was introduced in Windows XP. It helps you save your current tasks and documents and windows in their current state prior to shutting down your computer or tablet; therefore the next time yo...
ZIP Code Tools offers users a handy reference tool for looking up zipcodes. In addition, users can also look up area codes for phone numbers, making this app perfect for trying to determine where unknown calls to your phone are co...
Want to root your new Nexus 4? This guide shows you exactly how to do that! Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. Ashraf and dotTech are not responsible for any gain or loss (including but not limit...
If you like playing around with your Android device (e.g. rooting or installing custom ROMs), then you probably are familiar with Android’s ‘USB debugging mode’. However, USB debugging mode is really intended onl...
Today I have somewhat of a different comic to share with you. I am going to call it a logic-puzzle-comic because it is a comic… that presents you with a puzzle to solve. Think you have it in you? Then check it out below, but...
I know, I know. It must seem like I am obsessed with big cats. I’m not. I have just happened to stumbled upon interesting wild cat photos. Well, actually, today’s photo is hardly what you could call wild. Have you ever...
Windows 8 is, in a general sense, a hybrid system that caters to touch-enabled tablets and PCs, and traditional mouse and keyboard computers. As such, Windows 8 has two parts — Modern UI (e.g. the Start screen) and the tradi...
A few years back Dropbox was just another cloud storage/backup startup. Now with over 100,000,000 registered users and 1,000,000,000 files being saved every day, Dropbox is the cloud storage startup. Earlier this week Dropbox CEO ...
