If you're anything like me, you make good use of the Backspace key. But look where it is—way up on the upper righthand corner, dragging your hand away from the action with every inevitable mistake.

Imagine yourself as a single cap on a keyboard. Perhaps you’re an oft-used letter like “A” or instead the lonely, remote “~” key. If you’re one of the former, you wince every time that giant hand ...

Is it time to permanently retire the Caps Lock key? Pieter Hintjens thinks so. Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix, has launched the Capsoff organization in a campaign urging hardware manufacturers to ditch ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

There is one thing that has remained unchanged in computing over the decades and that is the venerable keyboard. While there have indeed been advancements in technologies, the layout of keyboards has ...

A keyboard key that toggles upper case on and off. When the Caps Lock key is on, pressing any key automatically delivers the shifted version of the key, except for numeric digits, periods, commas, ...

Peter asked for a way to “remap the Caps Lock key so it does nothing.” He wants to avoid accidentally hitting that key and finding himself typing ALL CAPS. You can go into the Windows Registry and ...

A few years ago, I polled our readers at Neowin, asking them if they prefer to use the Shift key to capitalize their text or the Caps Lock. The results of this poll were not surprising to me at all, ...

Some fonts in Microsoft Office are designed to display all letters in uppercase, regardless of whether the Caps Lock is on or off. Copperplate Gothic is one such font. Check this and change the Font.

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. THE END IS NIGH. That’s the message Google sent last week when it unveiled its new laptop, the Google ...