Keyboard macros and mouse macros allow short sequences of keystrokes and mouse actions to be transformed into other, usually more time-consuming, sequences of keystrokes and mouse actions.

Keyboard and mouse macros that are created using an application's built-in macro features are sometimes called application macros.

* Keyboard overlays: Criminals have been known to use keyboard overlays on ATMs to capture people's PINs.

Keyboard amplifiers intended for general use for a range of keyboard applications usually have very low distortion and extended, flat frequency response in both directions.

Keyboard amplifiers often have a simple onboard mixer with multiple inputs, so that keyboardists can control the tone and level of several keyboards.

Keyboard buffers have long been used in command-line processing.

Since the introduction of the Apple Extended Keyboard with the Macintosh II, however, keyboards with function keys have been available, though they did not become standard until the mid-1990s.

While the original Microsoft Natural Keyboard had feet in the front, the Elite and its successors have their feet in the back.

Keyboard player Cian Ciaran the group were worried that " doing a DVD might seem elitist, because only certain people have DVD players and systems, even now " but reasoned that " most people will have DVD playback systems at home within five years.

* Keyboard overlays, which can make typing easier and more accurate for those who have motor control difficulties.

Wakeman stated in a 1978 interview with Keyboard magazine that the Birotron would have an extremely low profit margin because of it.

An early version may have supported both QWERTY and the alternative Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout.

Keyboard enthusiasts have taken special note of the Fairlight CMI ( the first digital sampling synthesiser ) that Nick Rhodes operated with a light pen in this video, and throughout the tour.

Dozens of models have been released over time, including the Apple Extended Keyboard.

There have been multiple generations of Das Keyboard:

Keyboard selection has become easier and more user-friendly.

According to early Commodore myth, and reported by writer / programmer Jim Butterfield among others, the " word " KERNAL is an acronym ( or maybe more likely, a backronym ) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role.

Keyboard shortcuts are typically an alternate means for invoking one or more commands that would otherwise be accessible only through a menu, a pointing device, different levels of a user interface, or via a command console.

Keyboard Magazine wrote of him, " You won't find a more imaginative or effective keyboardist on the hard-core scene.

Hollerith soon developed a more accurate and simpler to use Keyboard Punch, using a pantograph to link a punch mechanism to a guide pointer that an operator would place over the appropriate mark in a 12 by 20 matrix to line up a manual punch over the correct hole in one of 20 columns.

His more recent appearance, as The Master shows him using his powers to literally rewrite reality using something called a " Quantum Keyboard ".

The power key was replaced with a more conventional power button on early USB keyboards, thanks to a proprietary pin wired to the Macintosh's power supply in Apple's early USB implementations, subsequently eliminated on the Pro Keyboard along with the special power supply pin.

Oliver has been nominated for the Classic Rock Society's ' Best Keyboard Player ' award on many occasions and has won the award three times ( 2006, 2007 & 2008 ).

The " Lombard " appeared in 1999, ( AKA: Bronze Keyboard ) a thinner, lighter, and faster ( 333 or 400 MHz ) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the " Pismo " in 2000, which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports, updated the PowerBook line to AGP graphics, a 100 MHz bus speed, and DVD-ROM optical drives standard, in addition to dropping the " G3 " from the PowerBook name.

The last two years of his life, Tatum regularly played at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, including his final public performance in April 1956.

The Natural Ergonomic Keyboard claimed life of one million actuations for each QWERTY key.

His monthly column, " Session Sensei " appeared in Keyboard Magazine for over five years and provided real world advice on performing, studio work, the music business and professional life in general.

Image: Keyboard layout Zhuyin. svg | A typical keyboard layout for zhuyin on computers, which can be used as an input method

Image: Keyboard layout Cangjie. png | A typical keyboard layout for Cangjie method, which is based on United States keyboard layout.

Image: Keyboard layout Dayi. png | A typical keyboard layout for Dayi method

Keyboard of a chinese mobile phone, showing roles of the numbers 1-5 in the Wubihua method

The online mode supports a USB Keyboard and a USB Headset, and all levels from single player are available in multiplayer.

The unit would even provide an extra cartridge slot, allowing the original Intellivision to remain permanently docked with the Keyboard Component while still being able to play standard game cartridges.

Synthesia is a video game and piano keyboard trainer for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, as well as Linux using Wine, which allows users to play a MIDI keyboard or use a computer keyboard in time to a MIDI file by following on-screen directions, much in the style of Keyboard Mania or Guitar Hero.

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Axeman Amborish Saikia and Keyboard player Vinayak Gupta completed Euphoria ’ s line up and brought about a total change in Euphoria ’ s sound with their cutting edge nu age musicianship.

Image: Keyboard layout Chinese Traditional. png | Chinese ( traditional ) keyboard layout, a US keyboard with Zhuyin, Cangjie and Dayi key labels, which can all be used to input Chinese characters into a computer

* What Does a Chinese Keyboard Look Like ?, article by Slate. com

The only proposed modern standard, GKOS ( or Global Keyboard Open Standard ) can support most characters and functions found on a computer keyboard but has had little commercial development.

Joy2chord is a Chorded Keyboard driver for Linux computers.

A sales brochure from 1978 listed ' Keyboard Videocarts ' for sale.

These were intended to use the Keyboard accessory.

All further brochures, released after Zircon took over Fairchild, never listed this accessory nor anything called a Keyboard Videocart.

Three Russian instruments also appeared, Oubouhof's Croix Sonore ( 1934 ), Ivor Darreg's microtonal ' Electronic Keyboard Oboe ' ( 1937 ) and the ANS synthesizer, constructed by the Russian scientist Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1958.

Keyboard parts are influenced by Latin music, and often contain many short melodies and countermelodies.

Intellivision's packaging and promotional materials, as well as television commercials, promised that with the addition of a soon-to-be-available accessory called the " Keyboard Component ", originally portrayed in TV ads as a larger box with an opening in the top that the Intellivision fit into.

The cassette drive would be able to provide both data storage and an audio track simultaneously, allowing for interactive audio recording and playback under computer control, and a secondary 6502 microprocessor inside the Keyboard Component would be programmed to handle all of these extra capabilities independently of the Intellivision's CP1610 CPU.

Unfortunately, while the Keyboard Component was an ambitious piece of engineering for its time, it suffered from reliability problems and proved to be expensive to produce.

Originally slated to be available in 1981, the Keyboard Component was repeatedly delayed as the engineers tried to find ways to overcome the reliability issues and reduce manufacturing costs.

' The check is in the mail ,' ' I'll still respect you in the morning ,' and ' The Keyboard will be out in spring.

Mattel said that the Keyboard Component was a real product still being test-marketed and even released a small number of Keyboard Components to a handful of retail stores, along with a handful of software titles in order to support this claim.

To protect themselves from the ongoing fines, the Keyboard Component was officially canceled in the fall of 1982 and the Entertainment Computer System ( ECS ) module offered up in its place.

While approximately four thousand Keyboard Components were manufactured before the module was canceled and recalled, it is not clear how many of them actually found their way into the hands of Intellivision customers.

Today, very few of them still exist ; when the Keyboard Component was officially canceled, part of Mattel's settlement with the FTC involved offering to buy back all of the existing Keyboard Components from dissatisfied customers.