One of my favorite aspects about Gmail is that Google goes above and beyond simple e-mail, having extra features not found in many other e-mailing services. One of these extra features is Gmail’s activity monitor. Gmail̵...
Frequent dotTechies who post comments may have noticed for a long time the ability to edit comments – after they have been posted – has been broken. I have applied a temporary fix to make it work. What used to happen i...
As I am sure most of you know by now, Amazon has their own app store for Android, cleverly named Amazon Appstore. Via this app store users can do the customary buy paid apps and download free apps; however, in addition, Amazon has...
Background Okay I knew about this method for a while now, but never really had a chance to test it out. Well recently I had decided that it is time to reformat my Windows partition because it was getting filled with too much junk....
A new day brings a new beginning — and another free app from Amazon. This time it is Quickoffice Pro. Yes ladies and gents — you heard that right. For the next 24-hours (November 14, 2011 only) Amazon is giving away Qu...
As I am sure all dotTechies know, backing up files regularly is a good idea because you never know when a technical disaster may strike. However, simply backing up files is not enough. You need to make sure you backup your files i...
I love Firefox. I first tasted Firefox via Firefox 2 and have been a loyalist since then, even with many of my friends and family defecting to the competition such as Chrome. However, Firefox is really starting to piss me off. Whe...
Want a Galaxy Nexus, Google’s latest and greatest flagship smartphone? Good news! Google will be giving away 10 of the devices over the next 10 days, and all it takes is to solve a challenge to win one. Each day for the next...
One of the favorite aspects I enjoy about my new Android-based phone are the games. (I was deprived of mobile games while running WinMo, partly because my phone did not have a proper GPU and partly because apps are not WinMo’...
Have you bought an iPad yet? Neither have I. (We may be lucky we have not jumped onto the bandwagon – yet – considering the complaints about iPad’s WiFi and how problematic it is.) Would you like to know how it f...
Remember last year how Apple snubbed Adobe, not allowing Flash on iDevices? Apple proclaimed Flash was a closed platform (the irony), it was inefficient, bulky, insecure, etc. as reasons for not allowing it on Apple’s mobile...
Spam -noun Super pestiferous anti matter -verb I want to hurt someone ….Okay on the serious note: we have all encountered spam. Yes even you (although you may not know in which case I ask you “have you checked your ban...
Malware isn’t new to iOS (nor to its competition, for that matter). However, in the past malware on iOS has targeted jailbroken devices, the devices that bypass Apple security and download third-party apps not vetted by Appl...
Most everyone uses ones of these every day and don’t know it. Some that do know either don’t understand it or, even worse, misunderstand it. Yet if anyone ever ran a Java program or a .NET based program they’ve used one. At its mo...
The Achilles heel of smartphones is battery life. You may be able to do almost anything on your device, but when it runs out of battery you can do nothing. We all want to be able to enjoy our expensive phones without having to be ...
Are you using Firefox? Itching to update to the latest version? It is time to satisfy that itch. Staying true to their quick-release cycle pledge, Mozilla has released Firefox 8. And if you are an early bird, you can manually down...
With hard drive space increasing day by day, many of us have an increasing number of programs installed on our beloved computers. Keeping all these programs up-to-date is a daunting, and often impossible, task. Fret no longer: tod...
Recently I posted an article discussing the best free apps to make free VoIP calls on Android. Free VoIP calls are very nice, but one issue with them is the fact that you can only call people that are using the same app/service yo...
The advent of the modern smartphone has brought many unconventional, new functionality to our cell phones. At the same time, it has transformed how we perform conventional cell phone tasks of calling and messaging. VoIP — wh...
Wow. It has been a dang long time since I have posted on dotTech. That is not to say I spent my time off wisely – played League of Legends until my brain turned into mush – but I sort of miss this feeling. So what bett...
WinX are doing a Halloween giveaway of their WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe until Nov 6: Get this all-in-one HD video converter, DVD burner and YouTube video downloader. Easily play any videos with your iPhone/4S, iPad, iPod, PSP,...
On PC Opera arguably has one of the most underestimated browsers. On mobile platforms, however, Opera browsers flourish. With excellent useability and handy features – such as Opera Turbo – Opera is as an excellent cho...
Since their introduction, live wallpapers have been used creatively for many different purposes. Power Puddle is one such live wallpaper. To put it simply – and the app itself is very simple – Power Puddle allows users...
Does your shiny new iPhone 4S – or old but newly updated iPhone 4/3GS – have sucky battery life? You are not the only one. After weeks of complaining by its customers, Apple has admitted there are bugs in iOS 5 that ar...
One great feature of JPEG images that make them a great asset over, lets say, PNG images is the fact that one can add comments to them. Adding comments is supported directly by Windows so you can always manually add comments to ea...
It may sound like a foreign concept to some, but mobile devices – and the content on those mobile devices, such as apps – are consumed by… consumers. When it comes to content delivery on said devices, everything ...
Think you are paying too much for cellular service? Then Republic Wireless may be what you have been waiting for. On November 8, Republic Wireless, a new cell phone service provider in the USA owned by Bandwidth.com, will start of...
With malicious people constantly roaming the internet to pick their next victim of identify theft, fraud, spam, etc. it is increasingly important to mix up your passwords (not use the same password for everything) and create stron...
Unless you are blocking ads, chances are you have already feasted your eyes upon an ad (many ads) by Google today. When looking at these ads sometimes you may wonder (or you may not wonder) why you are being shown the specific ads...
Today as you log into Gmail you may notice a Switch to the new look link near the top-right or bottom-right corner of your inbox: Clicking on this link transforms your Gmail into the the new and improved Gmail; call it New and Imp...
We move our mouse (or trackpad) but the cursor is no where to be found. Sometimes it camouflages with the background while other times our eyes just play tricks on us. Nonetheless, it has happened to the best of us. I just came ac...
We all know that if we want to keep a file safe, we can encrypt it and thus prevent prying eyes from viewing it. But ever wanted to keep others from viewing your files but didn’t feel like going through the hassle of encrypt...
Ever wanted to know exactly what changes (file and registry) that program you are installing is making on your computer? Ya I have too. Well this guide is intended to teach you how to do that. What you need Zsoft Uninstaller Diffi...
Some of us are already running Windows 7 while for others Windows 7 is just around the corner (literally). So this is a prime time to talk about GIGATweaker, a featured filled, easy-to-use, “tweaker” for Windows 7 (and...
Dolphin – available as Dolphin Browser HD and Dolphin Browser Mini on Android and Dolphin Browser on iOS – is an extremely popular third party browser much loved by many users. The developer of Dolphin, however, decide...
