Had enough Windows 8 hate to digest? Too bad, ’cause here comes more. Jakob Nielsen, a user interface expert at Nielsen Norman Group who has been working with user interfaces for years, conducted a test with people on Window...
Yesterday Apple unveiled its much-rumored and hyped iPad Mini. With a 7.9-inch display and $329 pricetag, Apple is obviously taking aim at the 7-inch tablet niche popularized by Samsung and dominated by Amazon and Google (vis-a-vi...
The iPad Mini has been one of the hottest rumors since summer: How large will it be? What processor will it use? How much storage will it have? How much will it cost? Is it even real? Today Apple has squashed all rumors by officia...
Efficient organization of sources can prove to be a major help when conducting research, be it academic or scientific. Maintaining an organized list of sources can go a long way in lessening the workload. Zotero is an excellent re...
Do you love to read comics and mangas on your computer? Do you know what .CBZ and .CBR files are? If you said yes to any of these questions, then, chances are, ComicRack is a program for you. Basically, if you have a growing colle...
My phone’s too slow! I guess its time for a new one. That’s what some might say, but with the right tools you may not need to upgrade just yet, saving you the money and the time required to get a new phone. Norton has ...
CallFlakes is an app designed to make communicating over the phone much easier. This app is designed for people who forget to call other people back or for people who have difficulty following up on calls. It also is great for peo...
Has a car ever rolled through your office parking lot? Has a gigantic boulder ever landed in your backyard? Hopefully the answer to both those questions is a resounding “no”, but these are the types of action move effe...
How many dotTechies have or plan on rock climbing? I have once or twice and I must tell you it is harder than it looks or sounds. And, interestingly enough, it is the nimble that seem to do better at it than others (aka I have a c...
When you look up in the sky, what do you see? Clouds, maybe. While it sounds a bit odd because of how we think of clouds as three dimensional figures, the clouds you see in the sky typically have “flat” bottoms. So if ...
Have you never done any banking on your smartphone because you had security concerns? Then you, my friend, might have made the right decision. A new study conducted by researchers from two German universities reveals that millions...
I’m sure most everyone has heard the term “cloud computing” at least once. What exactly is “the cloud” and cloud computing? It actually isn’t as magical — or new — as it may sound. T...
If you are happy with the default Windows interface, then Rainmeter is not for you. However, for those of you who like to customize your Windows experience, Rainmeter may just be what you are looking for. Rainmeter makes it easy t...
Some ex-executives are not shy about criticizing the company they founded. Is Bill Gates one such person? Well, for one, he isn’t an ex — he is still chairman of Microsoft. For two, in regards to the original question,...
TouristEye is basically a an offline trip planner that allows you to plan out your trip, day by day. It includes a trip journal, offline maps, and info on many destinations. This is the type of app you would download if you were t...
The built-in Image Viewer in Windows is a very basic image manager, providing very few feature that are basically limited to opening, rotating, or deleting images or setting an image as the desktop background. For those who want t...
Android Tuner is app that gives you great tools to optimize your Android experience. This app is very useful if you have found your device to be slowing down or not performing like it used to. It can also be great if you want to r...
When it comes building an iPhone calendar app, you are generally limited to the functions of the built-in iOS calendar itself. So to be successful on the App Store, a developer must go the extra mile to present all the same infor...
It is election year in the United States, with the vote for the office of the President of the United States to be held in roughly one month. The fight between incumbent President Barack Obama and challenger Governor Mitt Romney i...
You know why Google is successful? Data. You know what Google needs to manage and store that data? Data centers. Have you ever seen inside a Google data center? Probably not, unless you work at one or you worked for the contractor...
There are a number of free file management programs available that improve upon native Windows Explorer functionality. However majority of the programs come with a large number of options that can be confusing for novice users. Fo...
Maneesh Sethi is a self-employed blogger based in San Francisco, California. As many people that use the internet, Sethi often gets distracted from his work by things like Facebook, YouTube, etc. In fact, Sethi felt he was so ofte...
Updating all of your drivers, or installing missing ones, is often time consuming and annoying. It is possible to do it yourself, but a little help goes a long way. That is where DriverMax comes in. This is a free utility that you...
What is one of the best ways to market a product? Show it in action. What is the best way to prove to the public that your IPS displays are of touch-notch, “lifelike” quality? How about… troll elevator passengers...
Snapbucket allows you to quickly take photos, apply a wide variety of different effects to them, and then go ahead and share them on social networks such as Facebook or Twitter or via email/SMS. Snapbucket is basically a Photobuck...
Eventbrite is a app that will allow you to to find events that interest you. This can be very useful if you find yourself with not enough time to keep up with current entertainment. It is also useful if you find purchasing tickets...
Earlier this year Google introduced a new, unified privacy policy that allows Google to pool user data across all its various services and use the data as if it belongs in one database. That privacy policy drew fire for many priva...
Some people love Nextel push-to-talk phones. They are the closed thing to walkie-talkies that you can get without have to carry around a complete separate walkie-talkie device. And who wants to carry around a phone and a walkie-ta...
Have you ever had an issue, maybe a computer error or some other problem, that you decided to solve by Googling, and when you did Google it the only answer — or answers — you find is incomplete? Not only incomplete, bu...
I’m not much of a bridge person. Sure, they are useful when you need to cross a body of water but they aren’t something I wet my bed over… if you get what I mean. (Clearly, I’m not fit to be an engineer.) H...
We have seen dumb takedown notices and requests (via DMCA) in the past, such as when a researcher was kicked off MediaFire. However, we have not yet seen something as ridiculous as the following. As I mentioned before in my critic...
Curious as to who you can thank for those glorious spam emails you receive? India, Italy, and United States, the top three countries when it comes to number of spam sent from July 2012 to September 2012. According to the “Di...
dotTech has gotten into the habit of warning our readers about web security issues, namely malicious emails that make their rounds in the inboxes of people around the world — such as the fake Windows Update password stealing...
When connected to the same local network, it is very easy to share one printer with multiple computers an devices. However, there an issue arises when you want to share a printer with someone who isn’t on the same LAN as you...
When I got my first Android device, the first thing I noticed is it didn’t come with a weather app pre-installed. Today, with the latest version of Android, which is Jelly Bean, you can use Google Now for your weather needs but th...
