Those of you who have been using computers for 15 years or so will be glad to know that Mavis Beacon still Teaches Typing. Mavis looks as good as ever. Actually, she doesn’t look like the Mavis I ...

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 ...

Mavis Beacon is the Betty Crocker of keyboards. Her best-selling learn-to-type CD, now in its 12th edition, defines the genre of typing-instruction software. If you're strictly a hunt-and-peck typist ...

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My first experiences with typing tutors were frustrating, and as a six-year-old, they were my nemesis. Sessions with the first program I tried often ended in me bashing my rather diminutive fists ...

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 ...

Just the other day, I was working at the information desk when a boy walked up and asked me how he could look up titles. I took him over to the online catalog and showed him the search box, how to ...