Nowadays, ads are everywhere. Eevery website or blog that you visit, there’s always an ad in every page or post (including dotTech and our sister site, SharewareOnSale). Some ads are less annoying but there are those that are simp...
Not everything made in China is crap. Baidu, known prominently as the leading Chinese search engine (it even tops Google there) can attest to that statement. As Baidu now stands at the cusp of becoming a web-service and software c...
With the popularity of on-line social networking and media basically enamouring and planting itself into modern global society, it has created its own little world wide subculture. With any subculture, you find new colloquialisms ...
Many of us have a large library of images, whether they are family photos, art, desktop wallpapers and the type of pictures we don’t want to be caught with, these images can be very important to us. Human beings are sentimen...
Are you constantly using your text editor to create some unformatted documents and files? How about using it for keeping some important data such as your private notes, online payment receipts and chat logs? As for the latter, you...
Many who know me, think that I am an advocate, believer and promoter of a greener life style. This is untrue. The truth is I am a cheapskate. I spend the majority of my days dreaming of ways that I can cut corners and save money. ...
One major problem I’ve always had or experienced with the proprietary Windows File System Explorer is that it doesn’t come with easy and readily available tools for folder sorting and analysis. I have an extensive vid...
When it comes to protecting important files, there are two trusted methods — encryption and steganography. As it so happens to be, dotTech has a review on the best free encryption software for Windows and the best free stega...
Are you annoyed by the fact that many of the software that you install are bundled with a bunch of totally unrelated programs and offers (otherwise known as bloatware or crapware)? It’s like even if the software is labelled as fre...
Sometimes we find that we are unable to delete a directory or file because its in use by an application, the operating system or another user on the network. Sometimes in extremely unlucky cases, we find that the file may be inser...
Programs leave behind temporary files. In many cases, it is recommended to delete those temp files. You can either do it manually or use a privacy cleaning/temp file cleaning program. dotTech has a review on the best free system/p...
Are you having a hard time cutting that object out from its original photo? If you have a basic knowledge in image editing, then you probably know how tedious it is to separate an image from its background. It takes a lot of time,...
Surfing the web for various images is already a common thing for internet users. It’s just that not all of these images are download-worthy but there are certain instances wherein you end up regretting the fact that you failed to ...
Now that you may or may not have re-compressed your AVI files with AVI Recomp, you may be wondering if there is a great alternative to playing your multimedia files. If I had to answer that question, I’d have to give you a b...
Over the past few weeks, dotTech has reviewed multiple data recovery tools and the conclusion in pretty much all of them is the same — go for freeware Testdisk & PhotoRec instead. Today we have yet another data recovery ...
