One day in the very near future, I’m sure that an exam question will read: Without Emojis, life would be —, or Fish is to water as Emojis are to —.
What would we do without Emojis? Without saying or typing a word, we can show others what we think of their ugly picture, their boring post, or their really funny video. And all these with just one yellow face or another special character!
But did you know that you could also use them on your laptop?
Here’s how you do it.
ON A MAC
If you’re a Mac user, you can type any emoji with a simple keyboard shortcut.
Go to any text field and press the following keys at the same time: Command ⌘ + Control + Space bar. This will open a small input panel with all your favorite emojis. It will look just like this:
You can scroll up and down the panel, or click any of the categories listed at the bottom of the panel. When you find the right emoji, simply click on it.
Pro tip: if you click and hold on certain emojis, you can even pick different hair and skin tones. Unfortunately, this is only available for a limited number of emojis (mostly the ones depicting individual human characters, like ???? or ????).
ON WINDOWS
If you use Windows 8 or Windows 10, using emojis on your device is as simple as ever.
All you have to do is activate the Touch Keyboard by clicking the keyboard icon in the lower-right corner of the taskbar. It will look like this:
From here, click on the smiley face on the on-screen keyboard: the emoji keyboard will replace the regular alphabetical keyboard. This is what it looks like:
You can scroll through all the emojis using the left and right arrows on the left side of the keyboard, or clicking on the category buttons at the bottom of the keyboard.
When you spot the right emoji, click on it and it will appear in your text field.
So, continue with your emojifest!
Source: Huffington Post
