If you ever had to work on a PC in a foreign country that is not your own, you may have noticed that the keyboard layout is not identical to keyboards that you are used to working with. This can be resolved rather quickly if you have enough rights on the PC to change the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
Did you ever wish that you could make a slight change to the keyboard layout of your computer to better suite your needs? Maybe you are sometimes writing in a different language and need special characters that are not part of your language. You could of course install multiple keyboard layouts and switch between layouts [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Chrome Virtual Keyboard
A virtual keyboard provides two main advantages over a hardware keyboard. First, it defeats most keyloggers as the keys are not typed in but clicked on, and second it may offer faster access to special characters, especially from other keyboard layouts. An example would be an English user who needs to write a German รถ. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Computer Keyboard Locales Switcher
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Custom Keyboard Layouts In Firefox
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Convert Between Alphabets On The Fly
If you ever had to use a computer for writing text in two different languages that do not share the same alphabet you might have experienced that you wanted to write the text in one language but missed to switch to it which resulted in writing the text, or part of it, in the wrong [...]