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 ...

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 ...

Google seems to have rolled out a new blue highlight feature for some featured snippets in the Google Search results. Google may highlight specific text that is important in answering your query, ...

Text expanding utilities such as Ergonis Software’s Typinator look to save you time by letting you type abbreviations that expand into your e-mail signature, the date, and other frequently typed text ...

I type a lot. Between drafting my articles, writing emails, taking notes, and endless back-and-forth WhatsApp and Slack messages, my keyboard gets a serious workout. After owning a Windows laptop for ...

Google SearchLiaison announced via Twitter that Google had updated Featured Snippets. Clicking on many featured snippets will take a user directly to the text that is relevant to the search query.

Google is planning some big changes for its direct link-to-text fragment feature in Chrome, via a new snippets feature dubbed “WebNotes Stylized.” First spotted by Chrome Story, stylized WebNotes in ...

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 ...

Google recently announced that in response to a new French law they are removing snippets and images from news sites from displaying in French search results. Showing images and text snippets will be ...