Do you hate sending longer messages on your phone? We hear ya. If we can help it, we'll put off anything longer than a few sentences until we're at a computer. But maybe that doesn't have to be the ...

This tool turns phones and tablets into mini laptops, reviewers say.

If you're looking for a fast, customizable, and feature-packed keyboard for your phone, Gboard is one of the best options available. Developed by Google, the Gboard keyboard offers a range of tools to ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a chorded text input system for touchscreen devices that allows users to type without looking at the screen. I'm not sure what the point of this is. If you ...

With the rise of AI assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini, we’re all now well used to talking to our gadgets. But what you might not realize is that you can actually talk to type anywhere that a ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

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 ...

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 ...