It is International Caps Lock Day, as Megan Garber has alerted us in her TheAtlantic.com post on the subject. This is a day to celebrate (if you must), but with some caveats. It's not like you can ...

To turn on caps lock on a Chromebook, you'll need to use a specific keyboard shortcut — there is no caps lock button. When you turn on caps lock, you'll see a pop-up confirmation message on your ...

These days, caps lock’s main purpose is to make people furious whenever they mistakenly hit it. The key is so unused, in fact, there have been calls for its removal (Google doesn’t even include it on ...

I hate the Caps Lock key. An anachronism that has long outlived any marginal value it might have once offered, the key lies in wait to do one thing and one thing only: cAUSE typos whenever you are ...

X user @kmuee recently kicked off a heated debate on the platform after asking, “does anyone actually use their shift key to capitalize letters.” The insinuation here was that it’s somehow more normal ...

When you're typing a business document in Microsoft Word, capitalization errors can slow you down and lower your productivity. Microsoft Word includes an AutoCorrect tool that automatically fixes many ...

This is a giant padlock icon that says 'Caps Lock On' and takes over a huge amount of screen real-estate whenever you press the Caps Lock key. We guess the idea is that it's very possible to ...

The caps lock key, as we know it today, debuted in 1984 with the release of IBM's Model M keyboard. Prior to that, there had been a lock key, and a shift lock key before that. According to Daily ...

The much-maligned Caps Lock key has been causing problems for decades, and its continued existence is controversial enough that Google decided to drop it all together in their Chromebooks. Until the ...

Is it time to permanently retire the Caps Lock key? Pieter Hintjens thinks so. Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix, has launched the Capsoff organization in a campaign urging hardware manufacturers to ditch ...