It is sometimes a good security precaution to avoid using the computer keyboard, especially on public computer systems and other systems that are not under direct control. Keyloggers are still a threat and can transfer every single key that has been entered by the user to a central server. That’s bad if the keys can [...]

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Many computer keyboards come with a set of special keys that are used to give quick access to popular applications like a web browser and email client but also media controls to control music playback on the computer system. A problem that can arise is that some manufacturers map the keys to specific programs, e.g. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Are you missing the good old click sounds from typewriters when typing on your computer keyboard? If you do ClicKey might come to the rescue. ClicKey is a portable software program for the Microsoft operating system which can add “click sounds” to all keys of the computer keyboard. The application comes with 26 different sounds [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I just came across a computer program that allowed Windows users to change the language of the computer keyboard with the Caps Lock key. Using different keyboard locales is a solution for users who work with different languages throughout the day, e.g. Chinese and English. These users need to read and often write in different [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

You might want to take a closer look at the portable software program Killkeys if you are one of those users who happen to press the wrong keys in the least appropriate moment regularly. Computer keyboard keys that are candidates for this interruption are the caps lock key (especially right before entering a password), the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I recently came upon a few articles that once again offered the computer security tip to use onscreen keyboards to defeat keyloggers. Most of these tips are suggesting to install an onscreen keylogger or make use of the default one of the operating system to defeat keyloggers while making transactions on the Internet or working [...]

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The technical world and the advance of the Internet has made it a necessity for many users to speak English. This does leave many users with at least two languages that they read and probably also write in which is usually not a big problem if the languages are closely related, say Dutch and German [...]

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If you are one of those users who use the two-finger typing technique you might want to invest some time in a typing course to improve your words per minute count. Several free computer typing courses are available on the Internet. One of them is Typing Web’s Online Typing Tutor which can be accessed by [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

Computer Keyboard Tweaker is a very lightweight computer program to manage keyboard shortcuts. It offers various configuration possibilities and uses roughly one Megabyte while running in the background. It provides access to several features only known from multimedia keyboards. This includes changing the speaker volume, launching executables from the local hard drive, opening the default [...]

Categories: Software, Windows