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 ...

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 ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

After the success of gesture-based keyboards such as Swype (and if you’re really keeping track, ShapeWriter before it), the next obvious disruption to keyboard technology is optimisation of the legacy ...

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, ...

For different languages or special characters, changing keyboards is often easier than using complicated ASCII codes: simply use the appropriate keyboard and Windows layout.

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

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 ...

While a keyboard is available by default when you install Windows based on the language, you can add a new one. You can always switch between the default or multiple keywords easily. Go to Settings > ...

Have you ever wondered why keyboard letters are not arranged in a simple ABCDE sequence? At first glance, it might seem logical to place letters in alphabetical order to make typing easier and faster.