Text snippets are one of the most useful “unknown” features on Mac and iOS. They let you type a few letters, and have them expand into a whole word, sentence or paragraph. You can use them to type, ...

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen ...

App and file launcher, search helper, and all-round work of genius Alfred has all sorts of tricks up its sleeves. One of those is a clever built-in text snippets manager. I wouldn’t blame you for ...

TextExpander, for those not already familiar, is a useful utility for anyone who needs to repeatedly type the same snippets of text throughout the day. This applies to code monkeys, writers, bloggers, ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Text-expansion utilities let you create abbreviations—also called clippings or snippets—for frequently typed text. When you type one of these abbreviations, the utility automatically replaces it with ...

How much of your work day do you spend typing the same phrases over and over again? Things like your company’s address or a signature or a boilerplate paragraph in a document. No matter how fleet ...

Social networking and information sharing are at all time highs, and Google is looking to capitalize on that with new Android Chrome web snippets and shareable card features users should really learn ...