I've shared my fair share of tech tricks over the years. These quick tips help you do something new with your everyday tech, serve as a handy shortcut, or give you a fun fact to impress a tech-savvy friend. I'm back with 15 new tech secrets. Send hidden messages, clean your keyboard the easy way, dictate to your computer without downloading a thing and much more.

Do you send a lot of emails with the same basic information? You can easily create a template in Gmail to save yourself valuable time.

Go into Settings (the cog icon) > See all settings > Advanced link. Scroll down to the section marked Templates and click the circle marked Enable.

Now you can create up to 50 unique templates. To create a template, click Compose, then write your email, including the subject line. Click the three dots at the bottom right-hand corner, then Templates. Choose Save draft as template.

To insert a template you’ve created, start a new email draft. Again, click the three-dot menu > Templates > and insert one of your templates.

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