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 ...

There are very few things that are surrounded with as much hearsay and rumor as the origins of the QWERTY layout of typewriters and keyboards. The reason behind the QWERTY layout isn’t as simple as ...

1984 was a landmark year in computing. It was the debut year of the Macintosh, of course, but it also spawned another piece of timeless computer hardware: the IBM Model M keyboard, which Matt Neuburg ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

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The Mac can support different keyboard layouts and you can switch between them quite easily. It’s one way you can get more out of the keyboard, especially if you work in multiple languages. However, ...

I have an M1 Mini running 14.1.1 and recently my keyboard layout changed. I first noticed when I discovered my apostrophe was no longer under my right pinky, but instead in Shift-7. Poking around I ...

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 ...

I like my Logitech tablet keyboard: its build quality is good, battery seems to last forever, and it’s got handy special keys for Spotlight and the iOS Home button that work with iOS 7. However, as an ...