Character entry? Isn’t that what we used to call “typing”? Yes, but how can you type characters that aren’t printed on your keyboard, or aren’t available at all through any key combination? There is ...

Have you ever needed to find and use special characters or create equations when writing in OS X? Here are some methods for locating and inserting these characters when using your Mac. Topher Kessler ...

Mac OS X has a dictionary/thesaurus that can be accessed with the ctrl-cmd-D keys, in which a user hovers the mouse over a word and presses those keys to invoke a dictionary lookup on that word. This ...

It’s easy to look at your keyboard and assume that its keys represent all the characters you can type. But nothing could be further from the truth. You can press the Shift key to get uppercase letters ...

As a long-time Mac user, I once had to rely on Key Caps, an early Mac helper that would show you where special characters hid on a keyboard. Holding down Option and Shift-Option would reveal the ...

If you do much typing at all—especially if you dabble in graphic design or publishing—you’ll eventually need hidden typographic characters such as ®, ©, ™, ° and maybe even € and £. Back in 1984, the ...

Yesterday I opened the Keyboard Viewer to try and trace an issue with keystroke translation over VPN. Ever since, it's been popping up uninvited almost whenever I am asked for a Keychain password — ...

The Keyboard preference pane in System Preferences is the most obvious place to start and probably the one that most readers already know about, but here’s a recap. The most obvious thing expert ...