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Listen to article(2 minutes)AS SCIENCE fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. No wonder your tech-savvy co-workers often seem like wizards. You know the ones I’m talking about: those unflappable souls who can instantly find the file, email or thread that will prove them right in a dispute, while barely breaking eye contact with anyone who might challenge them.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

After being on Apple's App Store for only a few weeks, OpenAI's ChatGPT app for IOS gains a couple of neat new features, including deeper integration with Siri and Shortcuts. Additionally, the app is now optimized for iPads as well and runs in full-screen. Shortcut allows you to create a custom ChatGPT prompt in Shortcuts and save it. It can then be linked with other apps and execute an action. For instance, you can save the answer to the prompt in Notes or send it via a messaging app automatically. Or you can ask…

Android 14 Beta 3 has landed, it’s not rolling out to Google’s Pixel phones. Having said that, the update brought a number of changes, including lock screen customization. Lock screen shortcuts are a part of the offering, and they activate differently in Android 14 Beta 3. They seem to require a long press to activate. Lock screen shortcuts activate differently in Android 14 Beta 3 You may be a bit confused here, as lock screen shortcuts are not exactly a new feature. What is new is the ability for you to customize them…

OpenAI has announced a few new updates for its iOS app, including Shortcuts integration. Now you can create a ChatGPT prompt in Shortcuts and save it as a link between the AI tool and different apps. For example, ask ChatGPT to answer a problem or look up a fact and then message the response to your friend or save it as a note. You can also now ask Siri to bring up ChatGPT or create these Shortcuts. ChatGPT for iOS already utilizes OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition for voice input, with Siri further expanding its…

Google is readying a major redesign for the shortcuts toolbar in Gboard. Following a limited beta release in February, the company is now widely rolling out this change in the beta channel. A stable update should follow in the coming weeks. Google has been working on this Gboard redesign since at least August last year. It is giving a massive makeover to the keyboard app‘s shortcuts toolbar that appears on top of the keyboard. Currently, you get six shortcuts in the toolbar, including the microphone and an ellipsis…

WhatsApp is never at rest. The chat app is continuously striving to enhance user experience and is reportedly working on an improved interface for the app settings in an upcoming update. According to WaBetaInfo report, the chat is developing a new interface which will have three new shortcuts, namely “profile,” “privacy,” and “contacts,” – all aiming to make it easier for users to navigate through the settings. Moreover, WhatsApp plans to include the widely-appreciated “starred message” shortcut within the app settings,…

Android tablets have come with keyboard accessories that can be directly attached to the device for improved functionality, resembling that of a laptop. Google has been working on enhancing Android's features for tablets, including foldables, and with Android 14, Google has added a number of new keyboard shortcuts and is also planning to introduce new touchpad gestures.In the second beta build of Android 14 Beta 2, the settings physical keyboard settings on Android 14 have been reorganised, with the shortcuts now located…

For a lot of people, including us, Gmail is the primary mode of communication in the workplace and their professional space. And most of our time goes into furiously guiding the laptop trackpad to move from ‘Compose email' to ‘Forward email' on a daily basis. It has become second nature after years of practice but it is still very inefficient, especially when we have to send/reply to multiple emails in quick succession. So, when we first tried Gmail keyboard shortcuts, it was nothing short of a surprise. The commands are…

The Evolution of the QWERTY Keyboard The layout of a QWERTY keyboard changes depending on the language you speak. However, there are keys that are the same on all systems, such as function keys or those that help you write. Microsoft Wants to Change How Print Screen Works In fact, the latter are respected in the vast majority of hardware unless you have a TKL-class keyboard, but it seems that Microsoft wants to make changes to the way one of the most famous keyboard functions works. There is a function…

Gmail is a powerful and popular email client, and millions of people around the world rely on it for communication. As powerful as it is, there are people who don’t use it to its full potential. For example, Gmail has keyboard shortcuts that you might not know about. They’re really useful and they could speed up your workflow.So, what are these shortcuts and how could they help you out? Don’t worry, here’s a handy guide to show you.Enabling the shortcutsBefore we talk about how to use the shortcuts, we need to talk about…