A History of Keyboard Layouts, Is QWERTY Lagging Behind?
QWERTY is over 100 years old. It's outdated and outclassed by several alternatives, yet it's still the most popular keyboard layout in the world. How did we get here?
Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 Modular Gaming Keyboard Review And Giveaway
What really attracts you to the Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 is how different it looks.
How To Create A Keyboard Shortcut For Any Mac Menu Item
Is there no keyboard shortcut for something you do regularly? That’s annoying, but here’s the good news: on your Mac you can add one easily, without the need for extra software.
Mac Users: Control Streaming Services With Your Media Keys
You're about to walk away from your computer, so you absentmindedly hit "Pause" on your Mac. Nothing pauses – instead, iTunes launches.
Curious About Colemak? Learn The Best Keyboard Layout Easily
Your keyboard sucks. There, I said it. Don't take it personally -- you're not the one who invented the QWERTY layout.
How to Write Foreign Character Accents Using Your Chromebook
If you regularly communicate in a language that uses accents, such as French or Spanish, you will need to know how to type them using your Chromebook. Here's how.
Celluon EPIC Virtual Keyboard Review and Giveaway
The Celluon EPIC is a $150 virtual keyboard by means of projection, meaning that it can use laser light to project an image of a keyboard onto a flat surface in front of it.
4 Mini Bluetooth Keyboards For iPad mini Typists
A keyboard is what you need to prep your tablet for productivity, so we went looking for a few Bluetooth keyboard cases for your new iPad mini.
Type Faster On Your Windows Phone With These 5 Tips
Recently switched to Windows Phone, but found it heavy going entering text into messages, emails, Facebook or even typing a URL? These five tips are here to help.
Fingers Meet Glass: 5 Tips For A Better Typing Experience
Whether you're typing out a short email or writing a 1000-word blog post, doing that on a tablet/smartphone, sans an external keyboard, can be somewhat difficult.
Form Or Functionality? Fleksy Redesigns & Rewires The Android Keyboard
Fleksy is offers stark minimalism and a slicker-looking layout than the default - but doesn't support swipe-to-type.
Need a Swype-like Keyboard For a Low-Memory Device? Your Quest is Over
It seems that in our rush to get a keyboard that works well, we threw memory consumption and privacy out the window.
Touchpal X for Android: A Rising Alternative for Swype and SwiftKey?
It may not outright beat Swype or SwiftKey, but TouchPal X puts up a valiant fight and adds an eye-catching feature you won't find on other keyboards.
How To Best Use Or Disable The Windows 8 Touch Keyboard
Typing on a touchscreen is much easier if you know all the tricks! If you frequently type on your Windows 8 tablet, consider upgrading to Windows 8.1! It comes with many improved features as this article demonstrates.
Corsair Vengeance K95 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard & M95 Gaming Mouse Review and Giveaway
Today, we are going to look at two high-end gaming mice and keyboards: Corsair's Vengeance K95 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and M95 Performance MMO and RTS Laser Gaming Mouse.
Control Your MacBook Keyboard Lights With Lab Tick
Taking control of the backlight on your Macbook Pro or Air keyboard isn't hard: newer models specifically devote keys to the purpose. That wasn't always true, however. Before the addition of keys for the job, there was basically no way to control the lights behind the keys manually. Newer Macs may allow you to manually turn the light level up and down, but the sensor still takes control when it feels like it. Lab Tick lets you turn this off, and does a bit more.
Ditch Qwerty & Type Faster With Workman
Before personal computers were invented, even before they made their appearance in science-fiction literature, the Qwerty keyboard layout was designed for use on typewriters. While the design considerations were solid, Qwerty wasn't created for efficiency. We don't use typewriters anymore (well, most of us don't). And yet most of you will still be using Qwerty, the most popular keyboard layout in the world. It's time for change; for a keyboard layout that's fit for modern keyboards and modern computing. It's time for the Workman Layout.
2 Windows 8 Swype-Like Touch Keyboards Tested
On more than one occasion, I've found myself attempting to drag my finger around the keyboard on my Windows 8 tablet, only to be disappointed when only a single letter is entered. Swype-like input is simple, intuitive, and fast. So why can't a Windows 8 tablet do that? Well, it can—sort of. There are a couple limited options you can choose from. They won't be a perfect replacement for your keyboard, but they can offer some good Swype-style relief for those days when you really don't want to lift your finger off the screen.
Logitech Solar Keyboards K750 and K760 Review and Giveaway
Wireless keyboards and mice have been historically undervalued because of unreliability in their wireless communications and constant need for replacement batteries. But I took one step further and got solar keyboards to see if they could entirely replace the need to exchange batteries. Therefore, I reviewed the Logitech K750 and K760. At the end of this review, you have a chance to win to win one of the keyboards!
Automate Everything On Your Mac with Keyboard Maestro [Mac]
I've written several articles about Mac automation, including a MUO Automation Guide on how to get started with Apple's Automator and the built-in OS X features for creating smart folders, playlists, albums, and mailboxes. But next to the application called Hazel, which I also recently reviewed, the classic automation program Keyboard Maestro ($36.00) is my most used application for getting things done on my Mac. You can download it for a 30-day free trial.