I often reminisce on my life before the internet and Google – before I became a little too lazy to think for myself. Like many, I had a computer built out of a kludge of second hand parts and incompatible drivers to go with ...
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...
What I’ve always found annoying is running file types that are unknown to Windows. I hated being prompted sometimes, over and over again to select a program to run this file or scour the web for an application to run this fi...
I have a strange relationship with fonts. When I started writing applications, I was a little over the top and creative with the user interface colour scheme. I used to choose the most bourgeois fonts for labels, text fields and t...
Necessity,need or just sheer innovation used to be regarded as great motivators of invention. Now it seems that convenience and laziness are the only reasons to create or change. There is nothing wrong with that, why waste time a...
Updating drivers and staying top of frequent software revisions is one of the best ways to maintain performance on your PC. Most people don’t realize that driver updates can actually improve performance when it comes to select har...
When you’re working in front of a computer for long periods of time, staring at the monitor or display nonstop a lot of different things can happen. You can develop throbbing headaches, vertigo, neck pain or even dry and drowsy ey...
We’ve covered hosts file editors at dotTech before. If you don’t already know or remember what the hosts file is, it’s a document that essentially allows you to control domain name and IP address connections. You can do a lot of d...
It’s already typical for a Windows user to download and install a software or program. It is also the responsibility of the user to keep its program up-to-date. This could be a hassle especially to those who do not regularly updat...
The default Windows notification system is already good enough as it is but what if you want something with more features? What if you want your notifications to be centralized so that you can easily manage them without hopping fr...
Are you frequently annoyed by the fact that you cannot prevent other people from putting their USB sticks into your computer? This usually happens when you are sharing your laptop or PC with your group mates or even to your collea...
There are a lot of beautiful word cloud images that you can find online but did you know that you can actually create one? As a matter of fact, it is so easy to do. All you need is a reliable word cloud image generator such as Wor...
Without delving too much into the particulars, or traveling far down the rabbit hole so to speak, the system HOSTS file handles the IP and DNS process. More specifically, it’s the sole file responsible for linking DNS servers to t...
One thing in particular that the newer versions of the Windows OS (Vista and up) are designed to do, is use power profiles to throttle performance in particular usage scenarios. In many cases, this causes the computer to run at on...
A lot of people tend to focus too much on their work that they often neglect something very important – rest. This type of situation usually happens to those who spend most of their time working in front of their laptop or office ...
