Jesse Hagen is a father to his son Harrison, and more recently, an expert couch cleaner. Harrison loves bananas, the Parliament song \Rumpofsteelskin,\" and barfing on strangers' expensive couches. "" ...

My son has tried Mavis Beacon, but really doesn't like it. I found this thread but didn't want resurrect it. The tux program works, but is decidedly… Linux based. (He's using it now and just commented ...

So this year I (re)learned how to type. It all started because I wanted a cute keyboard with cute keycaps. I had lugged around a cheap, hand-me-up Kensington for years. Considering how much I work and ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Here we are in the 21st century: We live in an age where work, fun and socializing can all be completed in front of your computer screen. Now more than ever, it is vital to know your way around ...

Years ago, back in the days when there were "mainframe" computers but very few "home" computers, a typing teacher brought her brand of instruction to the home-computer monitor. It was late 1987, and ...

I recently created a video demonstration of how to do some work at the command line, but as I tried to record my video, I kept running into problems. I'm just not the kind of person who can type ...

While Gen Z and Gen Alpha are digital whizzes on phones and tablets, many still struggle with one basic skill: typing. In fact, most can’t type without looking at the keyboard. But there’s good news — ...

A generation of adults learned how to type thanks to Mavis Beacon. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, an educational software program, launched in 1987 and quickly became a bestseller. To this day, adults ...