This week on Extra Punctuation, Yahtzee Croshaw explains why Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA 4) is one of his favorite video game characters. This video is ...

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. Ever have that issue where you’re looking for an unusual or ...

A series of commands ranging from simple to fairly complex will help you count lines, words or individual characters on the Linux command line. Linux includes some useful commands for counting when it ...

Keyboard utility Holdkey makes it easier to enter extended and nonstandard characters. Holdkey lets you enter characters from the Windows extended set (not shown on the keyboard) by pressing and ...

Every writer has his or her favorite punctuations which they may use frequently. A person's character can be revealed by studying the punctuations they prefer to use.

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

Did you know that the typographical symbol of a little hand that points the way is called a manicule and dates to 1086? Or that the octothorpe, the symbol used to identify a Twitter hashtag, has a ...

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. Ever have that issue where you’re looking for an unusual or ...