Reader Ethan Derner politely brought me to task for suggesting in the December 2004 installment of my Mac 911 column that simultaneously holding down the Control and F2 keys should allow you to ...

The function keys, or F keys, on a computer keyboard serve as a line of shortcut keys that invoke various actions and commands in software applications. Located across the top of the keyboard, labeled ...

If you take a look at your laptop's keyboard, you'll notice that the top row keys have icons printed above, with "F" and a number, like F1, F2, and so on, below each one. These are known as function ...