Before I ever publish an article on dotTech, I spend significant time researching the topic which I will post about, finding alternatives, and discovering every kook and niche of it. Being human – yes I am human – by t...
My last article, here on dotTech, was about a game development software, that provides the tools to create amazing new games, called Unity. But what about old school board games like Chess (more like ancient school, I know); where...
Firefox comes with a built-in session manager. This session manager remembers the tabs and windows you you had opened the last time you were using Firefox, which can then be restored manually or automatically in the event of a cra...
WinUtilities is a popular name, especially among dotTechies, not only because it is continually given out on GOTD but also because it is a featured filled an reliable software. Although there was a short attempt by the developer o...
You use Facebook on a daily basis and whenever you are online someone messages you over Facebook Chat. Often times this gets in the way ofwhat you are doing whether it is posting on a group, playing a game, or even saying “happy b...
Quick, what CPU does your computer have? RAM? Hard drive? Audio card? Graphics card? What you don’t know? That is a darn shame. Sounds like you need to give Speccy a try. Speccy is a Piriform – the developers of CClean...
Yesterday Jeremy posted about Screenshot Captor, a feature-filled screenshot tool. If you were turned off by Screenshot Captor’s learning curve but still desire an excellent screenshotting tool, then PicPick may be for you. ...
We all know how well CCleaner works; it is a take-no-prisoners cleaner that is the benchmark for reliability. Kingsoft PC Doctor is the new kid on the block, looking to usurp CCleaner’s throne. Will we have a new king of the...
Minimize, maximize, and close. These are the three buttons we see in most all windows in Windows. Ever wish you had more buttons up there? Maybe a button to minimize window to system tray or to make a window always stay on top? Or...
Need a screen capture program that can grab, manipulate, annotate, and share screenshots without costing you a penny? Screenshot Captor may be for you. There are several freeware and shareware screenshot programs to choose from, s...
Let’s start this article with a story. A little while ago, when I turned on my PC, I noticed one of my backup drives had significantly less free space than it should have (approximately 50 GB of space unused space was not av...
Many of you already know what widgets are. For those who don’t, widgets are little programs running independently on a widget engine. They are those things that float around on your screen, typically your desktop. There are ...
Update: New Ashampoo ClipFinder version (HD v2.01) is out with new features and a new look. Click here for more details. Doing my usual reconnaissance of the internet I stumbled upon a free software that acts like a search engine ...
About:config in Firefox is an interesting place. Anyone with the proper knowledge can use about:config to make handy customizations to Firefox, such as forcing Firefox to display HTTP:// in the address bar. The key phrase in that ...
I first learned about the joys of Alt+Ctrl+Del while watching my otherwise computer illiterate dad restart a frozen Windows 98 desktop. Ever since then I have been relying on Alt+Ctrl+Del to bring up Windows Task Manager, which al...
