Ishaan Farooq

Hi, I am Ishaan Farooq, let me introduce myself. I am a Tech Blogger from Lucknow, India and am a big Techo Freak who loves to Surf Internet the whole day and is a Modding, Programming and Customization Enthusiast.

Enhance your YouTube experience with YouTube Center

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Enhance your YouTube experience with YouTube Center, it lets you alter and change almost every feature in YouTube according to your liking. It even adds much more functionality to YouTube like option to download videos and audios, full video buffering, animated video thumbnails, and other numerous enhancements and modifications (possibly more than you’ll ever need).

Windows Tip: Search contents of files using Windows Search

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Windows search is quite good and does it’s job quite well. Many of us including me rely on Windows Search for finding many files/folders from my own drive and folders and mostly in downloads as it contains many files I don’t always remember. Windows let you search for text within a file but it is limited to certain file types by default and I am going to show how you can expand this search feature to search within more file types as well.

Windows 10 Review & Features

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Currently Windows 10 is under development and it’s builds have been available for quite a time now and have added multiple new features with each new release. That being said, I’ve got my hands on the latest Windows 10 build (Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Build 10074) and I’d like to share my experience with it so far. Read on to know about the major new features in Windows 10.

Windows Tip: Create Keyboard Shortcuts to Open any App

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Many people are unaware that you can assign keyboards shortcuts (just like ctrl+c & ctrl+v) to your apps without using any 3rd party app in Windows (7 and later) which allows you to launch apps you use often with just a keyboard shortcut, which otherwise may involve many steps. This is one of those great convenience Windows offer without installing any 3rd party apps but is highly left unnoticed and neglected.

Laptop or Tablet: Which is Better for You?

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These days, many of the tablet manufacturers claim that a tablet can easily replace your laptop but is that really true? If you are going to buy a tablet/laptop and are confused what to buy, read on to clear all your confusions and know the pros and con of both, enabling you to make the better decision.

Google Chrome Tips and Tricks

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Google Chrome is an awesome browser and many people including me use it everyday and it’s the default browser on their PC. It offer’s great features such as wide range of extensions, it’s simple to use, etc. but many of it’s amazing features are unknown to majority of it’s users. In this post I am going to cover those little but extremely useful features that you may not be knowing till now. Read on and make your experience with Chrome even better than ever!

How to Boot into Safe Mode on Android

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Most of the people using Windows or Mac computers know that you can boot into Safe Mode to troubleshoot a problem you aren’t able to otherwise. Windows and Macs aren’t the only ones to have this functionality, Android have it too, and have had it since many years. Still many people are unaware of this feature. You may want to boot into Safe Mode in your Android device for many reasons. Like if your phone … Read more

How to Boot into Safe Mode in Windows 8

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Safe Mode

Has your PC gone bad? Want to see if any software’s causing the issue and want to troubleshoot? You may want to boot into Safe Mode for various reasons. Safe Mode is one of the most common and foremost things that one would do to troubleshoot a Windows installation that is starting to go sour. In earlier versions of Windows, it was achieved by pressing the F8 key. In Windows 8 and later however, it has changed as it boots pretty fast and if you’ve got a SSD it’ll boot faster than ever, which in turn, doesn’t allow time for pressing the F8 key during start-up and booting into Safe Mode.

You can boot into Safe Mode by various methods, essentially depending on whether you can boot into Windows, get past the login screen, and etc. Read on to know how to boot into safe mode into Windows 8 and later easily!

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Android Tip: How to Stop App Icons from Automatically Being Added to HomeScreen

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When you install an app from Google Play, it’s shortcut is automatically added to your home screen by default, and I find it really annoying. It disturbs my home screen and if I installed like oh, 10-12 apps in one go, my home screen looks like an app store itself  :-x . If you also find this annoying, and want to disable it, it’s quite easy. To do so, open Google Play. Now, swipe right from … Read more