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 ...

The Wall Street Journal reports a new wave of interest in the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, a Depression-era rearrangement of typewriter keys, developed by a psychology professor and typing expert in ...

Recently I have been slowly switching to the dvorak keyboard layout, and i am finally starting to regain some of my previous speed. I am switching because its supposed to be less aggravating to carpul ...

Dvorak is easier on your hands than QWERTY. So I tried it on my devices and was surprised at the result.

The standard QWERTY keyboard layout may not actually be your friend. According to popular legend, the QWERTY keyboard was created in the 1860s by a man named Christopher Latham Sholes in response to a ...

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 ...

Today, students begin typing from a younger age to become part of the technological culture that requires fluency with a keyboard. It’s difficult to think of using the Internet or typing long essays ...

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, ...

I’m impressed by the iPad. It has just about everything I want, and most of what I expected. (Wednesday morning, I wrote a post on my blog Kirkville with my predictions; with the iPad now announced, I ...