For those dotTechies that don’t live in the USA, Hulu.com is a legal video streaming service that allows visitors to legally watch many popular TV shows online (it also streams movies, but most of the movies are old and crap...
My, how (South) Korea has progressed: Once a country who’s products no one wanted; now a country who’s companies are besting American rivals. Sort of, anyway. Quoting “a person familiar with the situation”,...
In a way it isn’t fair to claim Android is “answering” iPhone when it comes to voice recognition/assistance. Anyone that has held an Android device in their hands knows Android has had excellent (albeit not exact...
It has been a long time coming, but at last they have arrived: Yesterday Nokia revealed their first two Windows Phone devices, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. Nokia Lumia 800 The Lumia 800 is the higher-end one ($585 USD off ...
One major drawback to external media is the AutoRun feature. On the surface this feature is not too bad – as soon as you put in your external media (USB drive, CD, etc.) whatever program is on there is executed automatically...
Are you taking advantage of Amazon’s daily Android app freebies? If not, today may be a good day to start. For the next 24-hours (October 26, 2011 only) Amazon is giving away OfficeSuite Pro 5 for Android ($14.99) for free: ...
Update: The freebie is actually Steganos Privacy Suite 12, not Steganos Security Suite 12. My bad. The following is the description of Steganos Privacy Suite 12, as per the developer: Premium security — privacy you can trust Worki...
Back in February when I reviewed Backup4all Lite 4 I discovered that the developer of the commercial Backup4all software series (Softland) had a freeware version of the software called FBackup. Actually I think it was more like mu...
Now we all know that FormatFactory is king when it comes to converting files (audio, video and images). However ever need to resize a bunch of images at once? How about rename them? Or maybe add a watermark? Well then what you nee...
There are times when you may want to restrict access to Windows. This may be when someone else is using your computer, you are playing a video game that requires the use of hotkeys already used by Windows, for security reasons, to...
We have all heard of VirusTotal, right? (You know, VirusTotal.com, the website that allows users to run files through 43 anti-malware scanners.) VirusTotal is a very handy service, but in order to use VT (VirusTotal) you need to d...
Over two years ago I wrote about MailStore Home, an excellent free program that allows users to easily backup e-mails from many different providers/sources (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Thunderbird, POP3/IMAP inboxes, etc.). Re...
Earlier today I wrote about an excellent checksums utility by Marxio. Now I am going to tell you about another Marxio winner (this guy really knows how to code): Marxio Timer. Marxio Timer is an extremely awesome program that allo...
GetJar Gold, a free service that allows Android users to legally get paid apps for free, debuted with many apps. Since then, the GetJar team has been adding more apps such as Beautiful Widgets and Quell. One of the most recent add...
Although I really like how Apple vets all apps before allowing them in the Apple App Store, I appreciate that Google forces Android app developers to attain explicit permission from users to give apps access to different parts of ...
Originally written on October 19, 2011. Updated on October 21, 2011 to clarify Galaxy Nexus has a Super AMOLED display, not Super AMOLED Plus. Samsung Galaxy S II hit USA shores a few weeks ago (the rest of the world got it earlie...
I, for one, have never been the kind of person to have a journal/diary; and the closest thing I have ever had to any sort of “log” was an year round “interactive notebook” (aka Haha-I-give-you-busy-work) we...
Update: Mousepath is now known as IOGraph. Please read the article on IOGraph for more information. Have you ever wondered where your cursor goes? Mouthpath is a small Java application that helps you quench your curiosity: it ma...
Ever wondered which device would survive a fall better, Apple’s new toy iPhone 4S or Samsung’s flagship phone Galaxy S II? Wonder no longer. SquareTrade, a third-party device warranty company, conducted an informal tes...
In the mood of a good puzzle game? Go search Apple App Store or Android Market. In the mood for a great puzzle game? Give Quell a try. Quell is a “zen puzzler” which aims to not only test your intellectual capacity to ...
Ever seen those OnStar commercials that show people being able to control their cars from their phones? Well PC Monitor is a program/app that is similar… except it is for your PC. PC Monitor allows users to monitor and contr...
With the recent release of the iPad, the topics of e-books have come to center stage. To put it simply, the e-book industry is (still) suffering from an identity crisis – there are no set e-book standards such as e-book read...
VHDs are Virtual Hard Disks that are most commonly used as hard drives for virtual machines. However, VHDs can also be mounted so they act like real hard drives; when mounted they appears to Windows as a real physical hard drive,...
Last week we gave away five copies of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. Now dotTech and IntKeys, a Swiss-based online retailer of video games that sells games at highly discounted prices, are back; this time we are giving away five ...
Last week Apple revealed the iPhone 4S. However, typical Apple, they didn’t reveal too many details about its processing power; and, well, you can’t blame them: Most consumers don’t care what is inside as long as...
From Commander Keen on MS-DOS to popular titles/series like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, id Software has never failed to disappoint. They are one of the frontrunner pioneers when it comes to graphics, violence, and gore in vid...
How many people here know what bloatware is? Not many probably. That is not to say that everyone here has not encountered bloatware; rather it is saying that many of us never thought of bloatware as…bloatware before. And tha...
There are tons of backup program (free and otherwise) out there in the market right now. I am constantly being asked “how does backup software A compare to backup software B”. Now in some cases this is a valid question...
One of the Android platform’s growing pains is bloatware. Similar to how Windows PCs come with unwanted and undesired software, many (most) Android ph0nes come with unwanted and undesired apps. One of the ways to get rid of ...
Update: TrashMail is once again free, but now it requires users to register on TrashMail.net (registration is free). While reading through the comments of some of my other posts I saw a comment by Ozzie, a regular dotTechie, where...
Yesterday Apple revealed their next iPhone, iPhone 4S. As the name may imply, iPhone 4S is a refreshed iPhone 4; it has the exact same body/design and screen as the iPhone 4 but with better internals: A better CPU, GPU, camera, hy...
Not to be confused with virtual process machines, virtual machines are, as Wikipedia puts it, “a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine”. They’re op...
In the past dotTech has discussed AdFree Android as the app for blocking ads on your Android device. While AdFree Android works well, the issue with it is the developer has recently begun updating the app without providing any sor...
Earlier this week dotTech reviewed Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. In the review we promised we would be giving away copies of the game for free. Well here we are. Thanks to IntKeys, a Swiss-based online retailer of video games th...
When using a word processor – such as Microsoft Word – there are features available that allow users to transform, manipulate, and sort text such invert text case, sort ascending, and sort descending. However, what if ...