TechSpot is a computer enthusiast website founded in 1998 by Julio J. Franco. TechSpot is updated daily with news from the technology and computer industry, reviews of PC products, software downloads and device driver updates. The site is also known for offering numerous useful system optimization tips on its guides section.

TechSpot is visited by over 3 Million unique readers every month (Quantcast, February 2010).

Over the years TechSpot has been featured and mentioned in several newspapers and recognized publications including: PC World Magazine, Maximum PC

Maximum PC

Maximum PC, formerly known as boot, is an American magazine and web site published by Future US. It focuses on cutting-edge PC hardware, with an emphasis on product reviews, step-by-step tutorials, and in-depth technical briefs...

, PC Pro

PC Pro

PC Pro is one of several computer magazines published monthly in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing. PC Pro also licenses individual articles for republication in various countries around the world - and some articles are translated into local languages...

, PC Magazine

PC Magazine

PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...

, ZDNet.com

ZDNet

ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic and SmartPlanet. The brand was founded on April 1, 1991 as a general interest technology portal from Ziff Davis and evolved into an enterprise IT-focused online publication owned by CNET...

, among others.

History

TechSpot was originally named 'Pure Rendition' becoming known for reporting news on the popular 3d accelerators

Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit or GPU is a specialized circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory in such a way so as to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display...

 based on the Rendition Verite graphics processor. The website was started in 1998 as a personal project and was hosted on a free account on the now defunct FortuneCity

FortuneCity

FortuneCity is a free webhosting service based in New York City. The service was founded in 1997 by Richard Jones and Dan Metcalfe, two British entrepreneurs. It has one million users....

. Shortly after the site was renamed to '3D Spotlight'.

In 2001 the site acquired the domain rights and was renamed to "TechSpot.com". TechSpot was built upon the success of 3D Spotlight, offering a broader scope on its reporting. By then the newly revamped publication was receiving 1 million visitors every month.

There is a screenshot gallery portraying some of the site's past designs, giving an outlook of Web design trends from the late 90s to the present.

Site Structure

TechSpot has gone through several expansions since its inception. The first sections to open were the reviews and guides. A community forum was also added in the earlier years and currently consists of over 800,000 user articles from about 21,000 actively registered members.

In recent years TechSpot has added new sections that also receive daily updates: software downloads, hot deals and device drivers.

In July 2006, TechSpot in Spanish opened its doors as an on-going effort to deliver computing and technology content to visitors from Spanish speaking nations.