We all know what URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) are; put in popular jargon, a URL is the address to a web page. URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier) are similar to URLs but are one level above; URIs point to a resource and are less...
The cold war may be over but Russian jokes are still afloat. My personal favorite is the one about when a Russian enters a bar… but I digress. Let’s get to the topic on hand. What is the difference between Google Andro...
Anyone remember that volcano eruption of 2010 that dumped ash all over Europe and caused havoc with air travel? Yeah, well, the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull was responsible for that whole mess. It started erupting on March 2...
Like the classics? Miss Pong? Want Atari back? Atari Arcade may fulfill your cravings. Atari Arcade is a new, free online joint-venture by Microsoft and Atari that brings classic Atari games to your web browser — any web bro...
Google often runs Google Play promotions, discounting apps, games, and even movies, music, and magazines. The end of summer sees Google running a Google Play ‘End of Summer’ promotion that offers eighteen Android apps ...
You get an e-mail that looks like it is from Facebook. The e-mail says you have been tagged in a photo by a friend and the photo is attached to the e-mail. You open the attachment and BAM you are infected by a trojan known as Troj...
Are you in a hurry to rename tons of files? If so, you definitely know that typing in filenames one by one can be both a hassle and not worth it at all. Solid Renamer is probably the simplest batch renamer I’ve come across, ...
Colors are something that the world underappreciates. You go about your day every day looking at a billion different things with a trillion different colors, but seldom stop to consciously think about how the various colors intera...
Whenever you lock your computer on Windows 8 you’re greeted with a harsh, cartoony picture of Seattle. We get it, Microsoft! You’re based right outside of Seattle! If you’re looking for a nice picture to replace ...
Are you an avid Angry Birds player? Don’t bother with that silly game! Instead, involve yourself with the cool guys and pick up some golf. Super Stickman Golf, that is: this game is a fun physics puzzler/golf game with over ...
There are some puzzle games that make you gasp: they’re simultaneously unique and awesomely fun. Trainyard is one of those games. You’re challenged with getting correctly-colored trains to their proper terminals. Howev...
Are you a fan of words and letters? Letris is a word-based game–rather, three word-based games in one–that involve selecting and removing words from a Tetris-like field. Letris has three different game modes. In the fi...
Sprinkle: Water splashing fire fighting fun! is a physics puzzler with a unique twist. You are given a water cannon mounted on a crane with the goal being to put out the fires (created by meteors). If you don’t put the fires...
AppAlerts – Instant alerts for new app releases! sends you instant push notifications when a new app becomes available on the App Store that matches a keyword of your choice. When you enter the app, there are 3 tabs at the b...
Hurricane is the ultimate tropical system tracker. The app provides up-to-date tracking information for all tropical systems currently in the world. If you are looking for any type of maps associated with tropical systems, then Hu...
If you put two iPhones together, what do you get? Well if you use your imagination and a little bit of creative math, you get the Samsung Galaxy Note II. No, no I’m not saying the Note II is a copy of the iPhone. Rather, my ...
Gaming is huge on traditional PCs and has become huge on mobile devices. Seeing as Windows 8 is the hybrid operating system that plays in both worlds, one can only expect gaming to be huge on Windows 8. (Or at least we hope.) Micr...
Malware only hits Android and is only created by scumbags, right? Wrong. Malware can hit any operating system (regardless of how secure people claim XXX OS is) and can be used for “good” or evil. In this case the spotl...
Back in July dotTech covered the features to expect in Firefox 15. Now Firefox 15 has been officially released and we know exactly what it brings with it. Let’s take a look. Out of all the major changes to Firefox 15, the mo...
Apple has been attacking Samsung on multiple fronts in the United States. The most publicized of these battles is the Apple v Samsung case that concluded last week, ended with Samsung having to pay Apple $1.05 billion, and served ...
iPhone 5 will (supposedly) hit the world in roughly 20 days yet iPhone 5 rumors never cease. French blog NoWhereElse.fr has gotten hold of photos leaked by Chinese company iColorOS that appear to be of a fully-assembled iPhone 5 c...
After unlocking the bootloader of your HTC One X and installing ClockworkMod recovery, the next thing you might want to do is rooting your device. Rooting your device will enable you to have access to advanced features like overcl...
Getting an Android device rooted might be one of the most looked upon things after a new device has been launched. And the developer community working behind Android and its dependencies is such big that there is usually almost no...
How do you download files on your computer? Do you use your browser’s built-in download management tool? Most people do. However, those tools generally lack configurability, and can sometimes even be slower than dedicated pr...
Twitter for web sucks. Gmail for web only has notifications if you’re running Chrome. Are you looking for a way to get a better social app experience on your Windows computer? Download Pokki. It’s simultaneously an ...
Are you a fan of [WordHero] on your Android phone, or Wordament on your Windows Phone 7 phone? Now, you can get that same game on your computer with Wordament: find the most words in the 4×4 grid as possible in the least amou...
“There is no law, no restraint in this seething cauldron of vice and depravity.” – The New York Tribune, 1868 Do you have what it takes to be an Old West cowboy? If you’re feeling the need to pit your reaction times ag...
Chess is a real game of skill. There are thousands of different moves, each one leading to even more moves, and eventually to an inevitable conclusion. If you’re travelling, however, and don’t want to take up all that ...
Are you the kind of person who uses their phone only a small amount each day, but finds their device dead by the time you pull it out of your pocket at lunch? If you are, you may want to find out if it’s your device or not&#...
Luxor is a game that was developed in 2005 for the PC (and expanded to the Mac and console soon thereafter) and the brand has been quite successful since. The goal of Luxor 2 is to stop a centipede-like string of spheres from reac...
Nebulous Notes is a user-friendly text editor for power users. Whether you are a writer, take notes in your job or for school, or a computer programmer, this app can assist you in your everyday life. Nebulous Notes provides a very...
Coupons and Shopping – GeoQpons is a huge database of coupons and deals from both retailers and restaurants. You have the ability to search their entire database of in-store and online coupons to find exactly what you are lo...
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory sent to the Curiosity rover to Mars. It landed in early August. Since then there have been many images sent back to Earth thanks to the various cameras NASA attached to the rover. One such exam...
You have been working diligently on something (assignment, project, etc.) for the past few hours and are almost finished. You keep thinking to yourself: “I’m almost done, there is no need to save now — I’ll...
If you are fed up with Java’s security vulnerabilities but are not willing to completely uninstall Java from your computer, a potential middle ground is disabling Java in your browser. This guide shows you how to disable Jav...
