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Mac OS X Snow Leopard, (and its "missing manual" predecessors) make wide use of it. Appendix E includes it in something like 87 entries. The Mac keyboard calls it "command" but one...
Here's a tip included in "iPad: The Missing Manual."
It's okay, you can admit it. You've tried and tried and tried, but you just can't deal with the iPad's flat glass typing surface. Your finge...
Did you know you could configure Ubuntu to use the keyboard to control the mouse cursor? In this excerpt from Robin Nixon's Ubuntu: Up and Running you'll see just how easy it is to implement. ...
Answered by macslocum : Apr 09 2010 12:02 PM
This is a great question. I've been playing around with the keyboard in the default mail app and the only additional functionality I've found is copy and paste. But even that is handcuffed. Yo... full answer >
Rememeber the first time you used a keyboard shortcut? Weren't you stoked? A small twiddle of the keys and you instantly increased your productivity by a factor of ten. You went from n00b to savvy u...
When using the on-screen Motorola Droid keyboard, hold down the period key for two seconds, and a popup screen will appear containing common symbols and punctuation.
Answered by adfm : Nov 20 2009 04:10 PM
You can remap the modifier keys on your Mac by going to "Keyboard & Mouse" in in the System Preferences and clicking on "Modifier Keys...". On Windows you can use a utility lik... full answer >
Keyboard events in recent browsers provide information about the keys and, where applicable, characters corresponding to the keys. Character values may be read from the keypress event, while thekey va...