One of the things that bugs me about OS X is that the volume adjustments made via the keyboard-based volume keys move in steps that are too large. Invariably, I’ll move the volume down a notch, and it ...

Of all the musical instruments out there, the keyboard is among the worst for changing the pitch and timbre of individual notes. Wind and stringed instruments can do this easily in the hands of a ...

Turn off the volume pops Many Mac users will be familiar with the popping sound that is played each time the volume control keys on the keyboard are pressed. This is supposed to give an indicator of ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Q. Because of a virus, I had to reformat my hard drive. Rather than start with my Hewlett Packard Windows 95 restore disk, I went right to a full second edition of Windows 98. Now, the volume control ...

If you can’t hear the dialog in a particular movie or your ears are suddenly assaulted with blaring music, you need to be able to adjust your computer’s volume as quickly as possible—with a trackpad ...

I got me a Belkin 4-port SOHO KVM for the holidays, and a couple things irk me. For one, the extra functionality of my keyboard (volume control, hotkeys, browser control, etc) no longer work, as the ...