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. When I’m cooking, I often put something on the boil and forget ...

Setting a timer to shut down your Windows PC can be helpful in many cases. For example, if you are downloading a large piece ...

Knowing how to set the timer on your iPhone is handy. The timer measures the time elapsed, and setting it up allows you to be more cautious of your schedule. Setting a timer while doing something ...

Apple quietly built a system-wide sleep timer into the iPhone years ago, and it works perfectly with Netflix even though the ...

Setting a self timer on your iPhone camera automatically takes photos after a countdown. The camera will take a series of 10 burst photos – you can choose the ones to keep or delete. You can set the ...

Did you know you can use Google search as a timer? The feature was available late last year then disappeared, but is now back. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering ...