You can reprogram the keys on your computer keyboard to perform special functions, courtesy of a free utility from Microsoft. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the mysteries of ...

Computer keyboards serve as the primary manual interfaces between users and systems, designed to bring ideas, commands and communications into the digital realm. Unless you dictate into a headset ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes to prevent typewriter keys from jamming. It remains the most widely used keyboard layout today. The letters on the ...

For roughly a century, France has been using the alternative AZERTY keyboard layout on typewriters and computers. But it doesn’t help people type in French easily, and the country has had enough.

Start keeping alcohol at your desk. And a flask doesn’t count. You need swabs and wipes for your keyboard, stat. The contemporary knowledge worker carries out his or her entire occupation by tickling ...