The release of Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface tablets is almost here yet the speculation about Surface tablet pricing is still alive and kicking. We have had multiple people chip in over the months about Surface pricing, from a $...
Apple was founded by two Steves, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. While Jobs was the entrepreneurial brains behind the company that is now the most valuable in the world, Wozniak was (is) the technical minded. Maybe that is why Wozni...
As much as we wish it so, unlimited data plans are mostly of the past. As such, it is always a good idea to keep an eye on your data usage to avoid costly overages. This is where Data Usage Monitor comes into play. What is it and ...
If you are a normal internet user, than you have a lot of passwords. QuickPasswords is a password manager that helps you remember and use all your passwords. What is it and what does it do Main Functionality QuickPasswords is an a...
I just love it when app names describe themselves. Shopping List is a new player in the reminders or todo apps team, amongst giants like Wunderlist, ToDo, Things, etc. But I think that this free app is worth looking at. What is it...
Most people these days use email to communicate with a lot of people, which results in a regular stream of new e-mails. With Google Mail Checker you find out how many news emails you have by just looking at the top right corner of...
Don’t let the word Motocross fool you! This is not a half gigabyte racing game, cruising through the woods and dust. Big Air Motocross is a mini game from Jordan Brown and, mark my words, it’s addictive. I took up this...
I don’t consider myself to be old. In fact, I consider myself to be not old, aka young. So for me to claim I know about the joys of age would be ludicrous. However, I know what makes “young people” tick, so I had...
I remember back in elementary school we had this outrageous physical education class where we had to test our body strength, among other things (clearly the geeks dominated in PE). While I didn’t do too bad in most of the ex...
Many people love the huge 4.8-inch screen on the extremely popular Samsung Galaxy S III. However, there is still a significant group of people who think phones should not be that large, myself included. Apparently Samsung knows ou...
Despite being only roughly three years old, Angry Birds has been an icon for modern mobile gaming. Rovio first tasted success as a paid game on iOS, then tried their hand at an ad-supported Angry Birds for Android and made so much...
Microsoft has had to deal with a negative response from both critics and users regarding the built-in search function for Windows 7. There have been numerous complaints about the efficiency of the feature with users saying that W...
It doesn’t take a genius to know this article is about – obviously, it is about an alarm clock app. But, Alarm Clock HD has more to it than you may think. What is it and what does it do Main Functionality Alarm Clock H...
A+ Signature Lite comes from the crew of Robert & Tsibucas Inc. They define this app as: A multi-usage annotation app which allows you to make your mark on any photo I define this app as: An app which helps to add a caption to...
If you look at lots of articles on the web, often you don’t want to see content outside the article like the tabs, other articles, and what not. If you are this type of person, then Evernote Clearly is for you. What is it an...
Facebook recently passed the 1 billion mark in active user accounts, as dotTech reported yesterday. Are you a naysayer and cannot fathom or do not want to accept the fact that Facebook has so many people actively using it (at leas...
When you hear the word “fireball” what do you imagine? Wizard and witches battling for supreme dominance? Harry Potter? Hadouken? Kamehameha? Whatever “fireball” may remind you of, we can all agree fireball...
YouTube has a system in place called ‘Content ID’ which provides content/copyright owners an automated way to force the removal of YouTube videos (or monetization of the videos) that contain copyrighted audio or video....
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are two acts that were proposed in the United States Congress as an attempt to fight online piracy. Because of their ruthless nature, the acts met with a lot of backlash from...
If you are on a touchscreen device, or don’t like your physical keyboard on a non-touch machine, then having an onscreen keyboard is a good idea. Virtual Keyboard by Google gives you that ability in Chrome or Opera with very...
If you use a lot of Google products then Google Shortcuts is for you. It lets you quickly get to all of your favorite Google sites. What is it and what does it do Main Functionality Google Shortcuts provides a toolbar or drop-down...
The native photos app in the iPhone/iPad is simple and elegant. But this classic look tends to be boring after using it for some time. You might even envy your buddy with a Galaxy or Xperia because of their amazing gallery apps. N...
Catch Notes from Catch.com enables you to quickly jot down your ideas and capture them for later. Never forget that “eureka” moment again, with Catch Notes. What is it and what does it do Main Functionality Catch Notes...
The human population of Earth is estimated at just under 7 billion. (to be exact, the World Bank estimated our population at 6,973,738,433 in 2011.) 1 billion of these 7 billion humanoids are “actively” using Facebook....
Firefox OS is Mozilla’s attempt at an HTML5-powered mobile operating system. There are already ways to test Firefox OS on your desktop but all those ways are extremely complicated to setup. So a Mozilla developer put togethe...
One of the innovative features introduced by Android is the swipe input method. Some love it while some hate it. If you are of the former group, the app Swipe Input Method – Swipe to Type is for you. But after using this app...
Those astute political fellows among us know a presidential debate took place between President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. While the debates may be enlightening for some, those that don’t care much for politics typica...
Most of us are middle class folk who work for a living. Between us, people hold various difference types of jobs but the lionshare of the jobs we hold are probably office-related — work we do at an office. Seeing as we spend...
You might have guessed by the name of the app — I’d Cap That — that this app allows you to add your own caption to your photos. If so, you got it wrong. Actually all the captioning is done by the app itself and n...
YouTube is the largest video sharing site in the world — 6 hrs of content is uploaded each minute to YouTube. With the ever-shining YouTube on one hand and the removal of native YouTube app from iOS 6 on the other, YouTube a...
With the Instagram waves hitting the shores, a large number of similar and supporting apps like Viddy, Textagram, etc. were born. Another one of these babies is InstaCollage Pro – Pic Frame & Pic Caption for Instagram FR...
Yesterday we learned Innovative Marketing, a firm that developed scareware programs, has to pay a fine of $163 million. In the comments of the article, Rob mentioned another scareware scam — “tech support” callin...
What happens when an entity loses a court battle in the United States? They appeal, of course. When Samsung lost Apple v Samsung and was handed a $1 billion fine in late August, we knew they would appeal. To no one’s surpris...
Tabs were invented to help make our browsing easier. For some people, like myself, they have actually made our browsing more hectic because we feel the urge to keep opening tabs and opening tabs and opening tabs and opening tabs&#...
