My Dvorak keyboard layout experiment has come to an end. I received hundreds of comments across the three-part series and many more e-mails and tweets from interested or concerned readers. As promised ...

Perhaps I type improperly, but I haven't used my pinky finger to type a single letter in this entire sentence on a QWERTY layout keyboard. As best I can tell, this is the same position as the "L" on ...

A crafty MacBook owner has gone through the tedious act of switching his MacBook’s QWERTY keyboard for the Dvorak layout. The Dvorak layout (named after Dr. August Dvorak, not that Dvorak) was created ...

Almost every computer keyboard in the English-speaking world uses the 19th-century QWERTY layout. You may not know that there’s an alternative: the Dvorak layout, which August Dvorak developed in 1936 ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

A few months ago Macworld asked where's the iPad's Dvorak keyboard? Well, in the iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 5, which was released on Tuesday, there's support for hardware Dvorak keyboards in the OS; however, ...

Reader Jane Kerns has a bone to pick with Microsoft in regard to her favorite keyboard layout. She writes: I have used the Dvorak keyboard layout for close to 30 years. I also use Microsoft Word 2011.

1936: University of Washington education professor August Dvorak receives a patent for the keyboard that bears his name. The seed for a new layout was planted in Dvorak's mind when he served as ...