Why QWERTY keyboard: Have you ever wondered why the letters on your computer or laptop keyboard are placed in such a random manner? Why do we get a pattern like QWERTY instead of the simple rhythm of ...

For all the talk of how technology is changing education, here’s a question that doesn’t get asked much: Are kids losing touch with the alphabet? There was a time when grade schoolers spent a whole ...

After giving it some thought, I decided to ditch my number pad computer keyboard for good (and I don't regret my decision in ...

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 ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...

The keyboard is one of the most important accessories of our PC. Without a keyboard, it is hard to use it. It helps us to type fast and carry out tasks very easily instead of doing everything with the ...

If you type in Microsoft Word, it capitalizes the first letter automatically. However, the same thing doesn’t happen in WordPad, Notepad, and some other programs. If you use a physical keyboard, it is ...