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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. As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen ...

One of the better recent features in macOS is Live Text, which allows you to copy text from images on your Mac in Preview, Quick Look, or Safari. It's honestly kinda magical—any text inside an image ...

Android: Some apps in Android allow you to copy text, but not all of them. The ones that do might make it harder than it needs to be. Microsoft’s new Clip Layer simplifies the task to make your ...

Put the mouse down, and copy and paste inside a terminal with your keyboard using Screen. Screen is a command-line tool that lets you set up multiple terminal windows within it, detach them and ...

You can copy and paste text on your iPhone using gestures, but it may take some getting used to first. To copy with gestures on your iPhone, pinch three fingers inward; to paste with gestures, pinch ...

One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...

Being able to copy and paste text on your phone is vital to everyday usage. On Google Pixel, there are a few features that make the copy-and-paste process incredibly seamless. This guide explains how ...

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How to copy and paste items between Microsoft Office apps on an iPad Your email has been sent You may use Microsoft Office primarily on your computer, but the suite also works well on an iPad. You can ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. Cutting, ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...