Windows comes in with a built in search feature, in both XP and Vista. The search feature in Vista is, by all standards, far supperior to the one in XP; however you can always download Windows Search and get the same search tool a...
We have all had programs crashing on us in Windows. Often times program crashes can be solved simply by restarting your computer or rerunning the crashed program. However, other times it may not be so simple: There may be a bug in...
Controlling other people’s computers from far away sounds daunting, doesn’t it? Well it’s not. Teamviewer is a great–and free–application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that makes screensharing a ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
