Two keystrokes instead of twenty.

For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

When you spend a lot of time typing, you waste a lot of it by typing the same thing over and over. TextExpander is a well-known, award-winning app for cutting down on your most-used phrases and ...

The most useful shortcuts built into your system.

SmileOnMyMac has released a new version its typing shortcut utility TextExpander, which we wrote about last year. The recent update adds new features for organization by groups, sharing and syncing ...

Chances are, you use keyboard shortcuts regularly on your laptop or desktop, but how often do you use them on your iPhone? While the iPhone's limited keyboard doesn't offer as many keyboard shortcuts ...

Shortcuts, small external keyboards and even improved (and free) dictation software can make long sessions of text input much simpler. By J. D. Biersdorfer J. D. Biersdorfer is the Tech Tip columnist ...

We love text expansion, as it helps us save plenty of time typing every day. It even helps us quickly insert snippets of text we couldn't easily remember. There are a lot of great standard snippets ...

When it works, a text shortcut tool can feel like magic. Create a few shortcuts for your most frequently typed phrases or sentences, and you can enter them instantly with just a few keystrokes. With a ...