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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. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

Emojis have become a convenient way to express emotions while messaging. Sending emojis when texting on our smartphones is a lot easier, but it's slightly more complicated when we try to use it on our ...

Emojis are all over our smartphones. These little icons have become an integral part of how we use mobile technology. From text messages to Facebook posts, they spice up our everyday digital ...

You can add special characters while typing on a computer using keyboard shortcuts or a special pop-up window. Both Windows and Mac computers have the same special characters, but have different ways ...

iPhone and Android smartphones have made it easy to talk in emojis and GIFs. They come built-in to the keyboard with a dedicated button—Android even has GIF search built directly into Gboard. But when ...

Google’s Emoji Kitchen has recently expanded, allowing users on just about any device – iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS, and other devices or computers – access weird and unnatural emoji combinations ...

If you’re an emoji lover, you probably know that it can be challenging to use emojis on your computer. While there are keyboard combinations and extensions to launch the system’s emoji picker, the ...

We’ve all run into scenarios while typing when it seems like the keyboard in front of us just isn‘t going to cut it, no matter how advanced it is. It’ll happen when you’re typing out a foreign word or ...