With OS X you can use a PC keyboard and still use the same familiar layout of modifier keys that is the default for Apple's systems. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Sometimes modifier keys on the keyboard may not work properly. If this is the case, you may find that either specific keys will not work, or certain combinations of keys will not work. In most cases ...

I’ve complained about this before on these forums: one thing that keeps me from adopting Linux on the desktop is that under Linux, keyboards are handled more or less like under Windows. While I spent ...

Readers offer their best tips for saving unsaved work from a crash, tweaking shortcuts in OS X, and jumping to the top of your inbox in Apple Mail. Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips ...

Black Cat Software has released version 2.2 of Mouseki, its onscreen keyboard for Mac OS X. Mouseki produces an onscreen keyboard for Mac OS and Mac OS X and is designed to enable text input in ...

Windows-centric keyboards can be awkward when using macOS. Here's how to make any keyboard work for a Mac by remapping the modifier keys. If you've ever used a third-party keyboard, you've probably ...

I seem to have grown a very weird (to me) hardware issue on my "beater" laptop. The function keys all work normally unless I use a modifier. Then, the even ones stop having any effect when combined ...

Terry Ogletree prefers some older, expensive mechanical keyboards he already has on hand to the newer Apple keyboard style that ships with Macs. (Very reasonable!) But these weren’t designed for a Mac ...

Most one-handed keyboards rely on modifier keys or chording (pressing multiple keys in patterns) to stretch the functionality of a single hand’s worth of buttons. [Dylan Turner]’s PS-OHK takes an ...