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 ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

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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 ...

During my recent attempt to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout, my goal was to remain proficient in QWERTY, trying to store both layouts in my brain and be able to eventually use them both equally. At ...

Ukelele is a tool that can create XML keyboard layouts for use in OS X version 10.2 and later. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since 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.

For as long as I can remember, I've been using computer keyboards of the full layout variety, complete with number pad keys, a dedicated section for arrow keys, a sprawling array of function row keys, ...

There’s no place like home row, am I right? “ASDF" and "JKL:” aren’t just the keys our fingers rest upon, they’re our friends. Fine, that may be a bit much, but we have all undoubtedly come a long way ...