If there’s one app you rely on more than any other on your phone, it’s probably the app that controls your on-screen keyboard. It’s a funny sort of realization, I realize — ’cause a keyboard isn’t ...

For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

When I was a kid, I’d absorb hints and cheat codes for the latest Nintendo games through a sort of osmosis. On playgrounds or at friends’ houses, we’d trade these bits of wisdom as if they were arcane ...

The great thing about computers is that they can work much faster than you can. But telling them what to do is often a slow process. Well, there's a fix. There are dozens of shortcuts, from pressing ...