The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory. Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot of ...

An interesting thread has been brewing over at WebmasterWorld with reports of an unusual Google query test. It seems like searchers in the UK, searching on UK based IPs at Google may see different ...

The username part of an email address can sometimes have numbers and special characters. But what if someone gives you an email address with a combination of upper-case and lower-case letters? Will ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...

Gmail addresses are not case sensitive, meaning the email service doesn't distinguish between versions of the address with or without capitalized letters, so long as the spelling is the same.

Pascal case -- or PascalCase -- is a programming naming convention where the first letter of each compound word in a variable is capitalized. The use of descriptive variable names is a software ...

“Hal Malchow is Going to Die on Thursday,” read the subject line from Jon Mandel. Like most articles he forwards me, this one has a political connection. It’s about one of the Democratic party’s most ...

Jay Keim writes in with a sensitive question: I have a refurbished 27ʺ iMac. I tried to install Adobe Creative Cloud on it and I got the error code that it could not ...