Word-prediction Android keyboard maker SwiftKey, which closed a $17.5 million Series B led by Index Ventures last month and whose keyboard software runs on millions of mobile devices, has launched a ...

[BiOzZ] wanted to try a different keyboard layout than the ubiquitous Qwerty, so he grabbed an old keyboard and converted it to the Dvorak setup. This was accomplished by first popping off all of the ...

The difference between ISO and ANSI keyboard layouts lies in the physical arrangement and number of keys. The ISO layout, ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

One of the things I like about working on our Ask TUAW series is that researching answers to readers' questions leads me to interesting software I would not otherwise likely find. This week's Ask TUAW ...

You use your keyboard every day, but I bet you've rarely thought about why your keys are where they are. In the 1870s, typewriter manufacturers arranged the keys to prevent mechanical jams. Over a ...

The touchscreen text input space could be heading for some serious disruption. If Apple drops its API guard a little more to allow developers to create system global keyboards that could open the ...

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 ...

A few short weeks ago, I said what a shame it was that Minebea's gorgeous COOL LEAF touch keyboard didn't allow for different country-specific keyboard layouts. A shortlisted entry in designboom's ...

This is something I don't understand either. Designer or bespoke keyboards are suddenly a thing, and simultaneously, there's this huge trend away from full-size keyboards, without numeric keypads - ...

[BiOzZ] wanted to try a different keyboard layout than the ubiquitous Qwerty, so he grabbed an old keyboard and converted it to the Dvorak setup. This was accomplished by first popping off all of the ...