Keyboard

Problem: You can connect your input device (mouse, keyboard, tablet, etc.) to your Mac, and it works. Sort of. You seem to be missing some advertised features, the tracking performance is sluggish, or it just doesn’t work the way you want it to. Solution: Apple includes universal drivers for input devices, so if you plug [...]

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Problem: Your keyboard or mouse (or trackpad) won’t respond to the gentle taps of your fingers, leaving you powerless to interact with your beloved computer. Solution: Press your fingers even harder. When that doesn’t work, use this guide to get your mouse or keyboard up and working. While software troubleshooting is considered starting in step [...]

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There are a lot of peripherals you can hook up to your Mac, and any one of them could stop working. We’re talking about mice, keyboards, printers, scanners, tablets, iPhones, iPads, iPods, hard drives, etc. While you can find specific troubleshooting guides for some of these peripherals on MacGuruLounge, I wanted to offer you some [...]

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If you have ever needed to use your Mac to type in a different language, you may have felt frustrated by the experience. Whether you have a Mac with a keyboard in Western English or any other language that is not your own, you know it can be difficult to switch your keyboard into a [...]

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Tom is a recent switcher from Windows, and he wants to know whether it is possible to control more of Safari from the keyboard in Mac OS X. For those of you who haven’t tried this before, you can set your Mac to allow text boxes, popup menus, links, and other selectable items to be [...]

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If you’ve been using your Mac for a while now, you undoubtedly know that you can use key combinations to save valuable time, rather than performing tasks via the menu bar. The most common examples of this includes command-C (copy) and command-V (paste). If you’ve never tried this before, simply click on a menu in [...]

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