Keyboard snippets make your life way easier. Until now, though, Apple’s Text Replacement function proved a royal pain to use. It never synced properly between devices, and it didn’t support ...

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, ...

The smiling folk at Smile (and, yes, they really do tend to smile) have released updates to their text expansion apps, TextExpander for the Mac and TextExpander touch for iOS, which bring with them ...

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 ...

I find I routinely get into online discussions where I type the same things over and over, and it's tedious. On Reddit I have used the macros capabilities of the Reddit Enhancement Suite, which work ...

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 ...

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 ...