A key that is pressed on a keyboard in combination with a letter or digit key to perform some function. The modifier key is held down while another key is pressed one or more times. For example, a ...

With OS X you can use a PC keyboard and still use the same familiar layout of modifier keys that is the default for Apple's systems. Modifier keys for Mac systems are the Shift, Control, Option (Alt), ...

Sometimes modifier keys on the keyboard may not work properly. If this is the case, you may find that either specific keys will not work, or certain combinations of keys will not work. Sometimes ...

Readers offer their best tips for saving unsaved work from a crash, tweaking shortcuts in OS X, and jumping to the top of your inbox in Apple Mail. Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips ...

The keyboard is a great way to get around your Mac, and you probably know quite a few of those ticks already. But I have two that every single Mac owner should know, and they both help you deal more ...

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.

Most one-handed keyboards rely on modifier keys or chording (pressing multiple keys in patterns) to stretch the functionality of a single hand’s worth of buttons. [Dylan Turner]’s PS-OHK takes an ...

Press your boot modifier keys after the chime, but before the spinning gear appears. One problem is that these boot modifiers seem not to work with Bluetooth keyboards, as many users who hold down the ...

button you'll be taken to a dialog where you can easily remap the keys. So to make a Windows keyboard work like a Mac keyboard just change the option key to the command key and the command key to the ...

Anyone know how I could lock modifier keys in C#? For instance, I need a little app that has checkboxes for control, alt, shift and if checked that modifier key becomes locked as if it's being held ...

Problem number two for today: Catching the KeyDown event is easy enough for a form as long as only one key is pressed at a time. However, if I press Ctrl and a key, I only get Ctrl. I've tried ...