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I’ll Never Buy a Keyboard Without Media Controls Again
Summary Dedicated media keys provide a more convenient and intuitive way to control media. Custom key bindings are a suboptimal workaround for keyboards lacking media controls. Consider external options like the Elgato Stream Deck, but be aware that they can be costly. Having dedicated media keys on your keyboard isn’t just a luxury—if you listen to as much music as…
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I Miss Sliding Keyboard Phones More Than I Ever Expected
Summary Physical keyboards on phones reduced typos with tactile feedback & accurate key spacing. Sliding keyboard phones allowed for more screen real estate without intrusive on-screen keyboards. Attempts to revive sliding keyboards failed due to high prices, performance issues, & design faults. Back in the day, sliding open a keyboard was practical, satisfying, and just plain cool. Nowadays, physical keyboards…
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ZSA Moonlander review: The most customizable keyboard I’ve ever used
The ZSA Moonlander ($365) is a split ergonomic keyboard that’s more helpful and useful than any I’ve tried to date. I know because after ZSA sent me one for review I spent nearly a year using it, often as my daily driver (typer?), and despite some initial hurdles in getting to grips with this elegant ‘board it’s become one of…
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Improve the Way You Work With This $300 Smart Ergonomic Keyboard
TL;DR: Improve your productivity and comfort with the Tetra Ergonomic Split Keyboard — at home, at the office, or on vacation — for $299.99. If you’ve been looking for ways to work smarter, have you considered how a smart ergonomic keyboard could make a big difference to your productivity? Even if you keep up with the latest computing and consumer…
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44 keyboard shortcuts for Command Prompt (Windows 10 & Windows 11)
Most power users love the Command Prompt because it’s a straightforward way to run text-based commands and administrative tasks. Fortunately, over time, Microsoft improved the Command Prompt by adding many handy keyboard shortcuts in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. In this article, I’ll show you some of the best keyboard shortcuts for CMD so that you can work faster…
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Microsoft Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts: Printable Cheat Sheet
Keyboard shortcuts can significantly increase your workflow efficiency, though the sheer number of them can make them difficult to prioritize and remember. This is why we’ve created a cheat sheet of some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts for the new Microsoft Outlook—specifically aimed at the email section of the app on Windows computers—which you can print and have to…
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How to Clean Your Mac’s Keyboard
I’ll confess: my MacBook’s keyboard has seen better days. I’ve been meaning to clean it for a while, but I always put it off because of how hard Apple makes disabling the keyboard in general: Whenever I switch off my MacBook, pressing literally any key powers it on again—not just the power button. That makes cleaning it tricky, since since…
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Qwertykeys halts keyboard shipments to US over tariff costs and confusion
The keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporaily halted all shipments to the United States in response to President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods going into effect. The company says it’s working on ways to mitigate shipping costs and that the tariffs have made it so that “all keyboards from China to the U.S. are now subject to 45% tariffs at full…
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Nokia Didn’t Think the iPhone’s Touch Keyboard Would Take Off
In an amazing piece of technology history, a Nokia internal presentation from after the iPhone’s 2007 unveiling shows what the company was thinking, and what Nokia got wrong in its analysis. Nokia recently unveiled an online repository of its designs at Aalto University in Finland, which opened to the public on January 15, 2025. The Nokia Design Archive is chock-full…
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How I Built a Silent Mechanical Keyboard
Summary Ditch your loud mechanical keyboard for a silent one to eliminate distraction. Silent mechanical keyboard switches provide a noiseless but solid typing experience. Get a gasket-mounted keyboard and consider modding it to build the quietest keyboard possible. Does your mechanical keyboard get a lot of flak for being too loud? I’ve been there, too. While the marbly click-clack is…
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