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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Tap the arrow at right to insert an entire name, or one of the individual sections to paste just that text instead. Developers have come up with all kinds of clever tricks for third-party keyboards ...