With all this news that big brother is watching everything we do in the tech world –as if that was never a possibility in the first place- it certainly leaves many wondering what they can do to protect themselves. Realistically, t...
When Google decided to close Google Reader, a lot of users were saddened but at the same time, their attention turned to other free RSS feed aggregators such as Feedly and InoReader. As a matter of fact, most of our feed readers t...
I am sure that many of you have come across webpages with black backgrounds and colorful texts that were hard to read (like this one)! You probably wished you could have changed both the backgrounds and the texts on said pages so ...
There are a lot of geeks out there that have a very large digital movie database. When it comes to managing a large media database you end up using a lot of online portals like IMDB, RottenTomatoes, OpenSubtitles and more. This ca...
Most software tend to be single-focused, specializing in doing one task or multiple tasks related to the same generalized theme. Then there are so called “system utilities” or “system optimization software”...
One of the most aggravating things about the add/remove programs function in Windows is that it can only handle uninstalling one program or application at a time. There are quite a few third party programs that ultimately extend t...
If you, like me, have not chosen to move all of your data to the cloud, instead opting for the ability to access data regardless of internet connection via one or more USB drives, you might be tired of the typical removable drive ...
Nowadays, it’s so easy to find a screensaver for your PC or laptop. All you need to do is to search for a screensaver with a cool theme or design and you’re done. There are even those that you can use as a dynamic calendar. With o...
Comic pokes fun at how Windows almost always inaccurately estimates how much time is left to complete an action.
A troubling malware family has recently been brought to light by researchers from both F-Secure and Webroot. What is particularly unique about this malware is that it targets both Windows and OSX. This malware appears to be an ear...
If you work with videos more often then not and tend to share your videos on the internet, it is a good idea to protect your videos with a watermark… or multiple watermarks. While adding a watermark to a video is a relativel...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple animated GIF flame flickering across the bottom of the image by using GIMP, a free image editor. This is part 2 in an ongoing series on dotTech intended to teach you how to ...
One of the biggest problems with keeping a backlog of photos saved on a smartphone, is that eventually you end up with a lot of duplicates after transferring them over to a PC. At least in my case, this happens because I always ba...
If you smile and/or laugh at this error message, you know are a geeky nerd. Because real nerds don't smile and/or laugh.
