The computer keyboard is the core input device on most modern computer systems. People use it for all writing purposes on the computer, from writing documents and emails to chatting with friends in chat rooms and updating the status at popular social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter. Oh, and some use it to [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Well all strive to make our desktop as efficient as possible. Whether you’re a coder who wants nothing more than to never remove your fingers from the keyboard, or if you’re a writer who wants to use the mouse only when necessary, there are so many ways to make this happen. One of the easiest [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

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

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

Hardware devices that I buy seem to come quite frequently with annoying blinking led lights that cannot be turned off. The first device that made use of a bright blue LED was the Nokia N73 cell phone that I purchased about 2 years ago. The blue light was automatically turned on when the cell phone [...]

Categories: Hardware

Are you like me and one of those users who HATES going back and forth from keyboard to mouse? Such a waste of precious time that back and forth movement. To be a seriously efficient Linux user it’s best to know keyboard shortcuts for the desktop environment (or window manager) that you use. In this [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

It’s rather strange that Windows does not ship with an easy way to configure keyboard shortcuts in the system. Enter HoeKey. A lightweight portable software that can be used to configure various advanced keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can be edited and added to the computer system by editing a ini file that contains all the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Keytweak is a keyword remapper that is compatible with all NT based versions of the Windows operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista and even the soon to be released Windows 7. The main difference between Keytweak and Sharp Keys, the remap keyboard tool that we reviewed a week ago, is mainly the graphical user [...]

Categories: Software, Windows