When you type a document in a language such as French, Belgian or Lithuanian, you may find yourself limited by the standard QWERTY keyboard, which lacks many of the special characters found in these ...

If you ever use any of the alternative keyboard layouts available in OS X (System Preferences -> Language & Text, Input Sources tab), you know that some of their names are quite cumbersome—U.S.

The QWERTY keyboard layout is commonly found on computers in the United States. It was first created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer. You know you have ...