To Microsoft’s eternal embarrassment, the most well-known Windows shortcut is the one you use when everything’s gone wrong: Control-Alt-Delete. But what about if you’re using a Mac? Is there a similar ...

In 1980, as engineers worked to build the IBM Personal Computer, they faced a persistent problem that threatened productivity. Programmes frequently crashed during development, and when that happened, ...

As we grow older, we'll begin to look back at the mistakes of our lives: the girlfriend we wronged, that opportunity we passed up, the friend we lost in touch with, and needless keyboard combinations ...

Who needs a mouse anyway?

David Bradley is the IBM programmer responsible for bringing “Control-Alt-Delete,” that most comforting of key-combinations, into this world. Here he explains how it came to be and can’t help but add ...