Tune into the chatter around Windows 8 and it won't be long before you start hearing about keyboard shortcuts.

ENGADGET: Windows 8 upgrade diary: multiple monitors make my mouse mad

And some 200 keyboard shortcuts let users navigate around the Q10 more quickly.

WSJ: Q10 Review: The BlackBerry of BlackBerry Users' Dreams

These Mac keyboards are aimed at graphic designers or video editors who can benefit from these keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut or Avid.

FORBES: Connecting marketers to the Forbes audience. What is this?

In those cases, gestures become the keyboard shortcuts of touch and begin to let you create applications that you play more than you use, almost like an instrument.

FORBES: Thanks Buttons. Touch, Speech and Gesture Can Take it From Here

E16 supports mouse-driven menus as well as easy-to-configure keyboard shortcuts.

ENGADGET: How-to: Picking a Window Manager in Linux

Splashtop 2 business and personal users will be able to customize their tablet experience by creating keyboard shortcuts, virtual joysticks, mouse controls for faster and more seamless remote access with their Macs and PCs.

ENGADGET: Splashtop's Configurable Shortcuts & Gamepad feature lets tablet users create virtual controls and more

Using the DATKs with Eve keyboard shortcuts worked best for me, as it parsed those macros to the right side of the keyboard, so I could just use the QWERTY keys for chatting with corpmates, alliance members, etc.

FORBES: Macroing With The Razer DeathStalker Ultimate in Eve

In the past, we've made no secret about the fact that we prefer using Windows 8 with some sort of touch input device, but it's still nice to see Lenovo adding an extra option for folks who prefer keyboard shortcuts.

ENGADGET: Lenovo ThinkPad Twist review: an old form factor gets new life with Windows 8

There is a way to quickly move through tweets one at a time using keyboard shortcuts (like jumping through messages in Gmail), but you can only see one update per page -- not really that useful when you follow lots of people.

ENGADGET: TwitterPeek review Hands-on