On certain laptops, including older Macs, Num Lock had a different function. Lacking a numeric keypad, Num Lock turned part of the main keyboard into a pseudo-keypad. (There was sometimes a unique ...

Old versions of Skype used to display an on-screen numeric keypad but now you use the keyboard’s number keys, or the numeric keypad for dialling. If you need to enter a number whilst in a call ...

To use the dial pad on iOS, go to the Calls section by tapping the icon at the bottom right of the screen. Then, press the green phone button in the same corner and select Call a number.

While the wired keyboard with numeric keypad definitely wasn’t for everyone, it was a cost-effective option to have full functionality while sticking with an official Apple product.

Hey, you lucky iPhone-carrying MacBook users: NumberKey [iTunes link] turns the former into a numeric keypad for the latter -- and looks really cool doing it. The $1.99 iPhone app (which also ...

Apple introduced super-cool space gray variants of its Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad when it unveiled the iMac Pro.

Early 2009 iMacs shipped with a new shorter version of the wired keyboard (Model A1242, below) which omitted the numeric keypad and extra keys but still used USB. Early 2009 iMacs shipped with a ...

OWC tells me that it’s designed its numeric keypad with accountants in mind, with a layout that’s optimized for number crunching. It won’t be the only option for Apple Wireless Keyboard ...