The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes to prevent typewriter keys from jamming. It remains the most widely used keyboard layout today. The letters on the ...

Ever noticed the non-alphabetical keyboard layout? Typewriters’ history holds the answer. Invented to speed up writing, early models jammed when keys were pressed consecutively. Christopher Sholes’ ...

Typing on TVs is something that pretty much everyone hates. Clicking half a dozen times between letter is infuriating, and it’s only made worse when you have a poor keyboard layout. When Google ...

August 27, 2007 The name Christopher Sholes probably doesn’t ring a bell in the mind of the average person, but if they knew of his contribution to modern technology they might well wish to throttle ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

All computer users are familiar with the standard keyboard layout – that arrangement where the keys in each row are slightly offset from the ones above and below. This is known as a staggered ...

Pick the right on-screen keyboard for your iOS App Your email has been sent It is important for iOS developers to use the appropriate keyboard layout for any given situation. When it comes to ...

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

You've updated your iPhone or iPad to iOS 11. Along with an array of new features and enhancements come new tricks for the onscreen keyboard. On an iPhone, you can shrink the keyboard so it appears to ...

French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers.