With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Every time you're on your Mac, you're using ...

A Hyper Key is a single key that sends a modifier combination — usually Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Win. Since almost no application reserves this four-key combination, any shortcut created with it won't ...

The Option key on a Mac is a modifier key that is used to change the functions of menus and keyboard shortcuts. Use Option ...

Terminal is inarguably useful, but it does have its annoying quirks. For example, there are lots of standard key combinations for moving the cursor that don’t work on the Terminal command line.

I’ve complained about this before on these forums: one thing that keeps me from adopting Linux on the desktop is that under Linux, keyboards are handled more or less like under Windows. While I spent ...