You've probably tapped it at least a few times today without ever knowing exactly what it is or what it's called; I'm talking about the strange, swirly square emblazoned on the Command key (that's ...

An interesting crop circle was reported at Cheesefoot Head, near Winchester in Hampshire, southern England, last week. An infinite loop, the formation has no beginning nor end. It has been likened to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The untold story of why the Command key replaced the Apple key on your Mac Susan Kare is a well-known graphic designer who has ...

The Apple Command key (or, as you might better know it, ⌘) has a beautiful and clear history. Originally, the ⌘ key was an Apple symbol instead, but Steve Jobs thought that using the Apple logo as a ...

Unless you have driven around Sweden, it's likely that you've only seen the curly four-leaf clover-like symbol on the command key of a Mac keyboard. Its origins, though, like many an Apple story, can ...

One of the best power-user tips I have to pass on is to learn the keyboard shortcuts for as many tasks as you can. Learning the shortcuts is easy, command-shift-s, shift-option-a…, but in OS X we ...

If you're coming from a PC, your first instinct might be to look for the Control key. However, on a Mac, you'll typically use ...

It’s easy to look at your keyboard and assume that its keys represent all the characters you can type. But nothing could be further from the truth. You can press the Shift key to get uppercase letters ...