Once you’ve set up an Apple TV with apps, you’ll find many require you to log in to use them. With a few tricks you can use a physical Bluetooth keyboard.
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Sculpt, the New Ultra-Ergonomic Keyboard from Microsoft
Microsoft has been successfully making ergonomic keyboards for 20 years, and the bold design of its latest generation comes as no surprise. Here’s a look.
Make Typing Special Characters Easy Across All Keyboards
Typing in multiple languages and special characters on standard keyboard is challenging. But Holdkey helps improve productivity by making it easier.
What is the Menu Key on My Keyboard For?
What’s this weird looking key on the right side of my keyboard for? It’s called the Menu or Context key and it can still be handy if the mouse breaks.
How to Use the Shift Key to Disable Caps Lock
If you want to talk about useful hidden features in Microsoft Windows, this is one of them. This one little feature has saved me from Caps Lock annoyance dozens of times over the years in Windows.
Windows: Make the Caps Lock Key Beep When Pressed
It’s extremely annoying when you’re typing and accidentally hit the Caps Lock key without knowing it. Here’s how to make it alert you when it’s pressed. In Vista and Windows 7 Click Start >> Control Panel. Next, switch to Classic View and click Ease of Access Center. Scroll down under Explore All Settings, and click […]
How to Clear Your Swype Dictionary on an Android Phone
Have you ever accidently mistyped a word while manually entering letters on your Swype keyboard? If so, then you’re like 99.9% of the rest of us that use it. When you manually spell out a word, it will be added to Swype’s dictionary. This is done so that the word can be “Swyped” in later. […]
How To Install The Android Gingerbread Keyboard On A Froyo or Eclair Device
Google has released the Gingerbread (version 2.3) update for Android, but who actually has it at this point besides Nexus phone users? While Gingerbread isn’t a huge OS upgrade over Froyo (versoin 2.2), the keyboard certainly is. The installation is an APK file and installs just like an app, so don’t worry, this keyboard doesn’t […]
Swype Beta Open Again For A Limited Time, Get Your Copy Now
Once again, Swype has opened their otherwise “exclusive” doors and for a short window you can pick up your copy of the Android software touch-slide-keyboard. If you haven’t tried Swype, you should. It is quite possibly the greatest thing to come to mobile phones since Android itself. Sure, there are some wannabe clones in the […]
Quickly Send Text Messages for Free Using E-Mail
It’s amazing to me how popular “texting” or Text Messaging has become over the last few years. Additionally, what’s even more amazing to me is the fact that a new language and possibly even a new culture appears to have spawned from this new technology! OMG, IMO it’s crzy LOL! 😉 As fantastic as […]
Clear Firefox 3 Browsing History, Cache and Private Data
My last few articles focused on How-To Clear IE7 Browser History. I figured while I’m in a “Security” frame of mind, I would capture the same process for Mozilla Firefox. Like IE7, the process in Firefox is incredibly easy. Personally, since you can also automate the process and have Firefox clear the cached data automatically […]
Adventure Adjusting to the New Family Computer
Well…the home PC in the living room died last week. It was a SAD day in the GROOVY home. After a quick Service, I decided to try something NEW, so I picked up a new MacBook Pro from the local Apple store. After a quick setup, we got it rolling and wow! For a groovy […]