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 ...

Time for a mid-week grab-bag of Mac 911 updates—comments and suggestions from readers about past Mac 911 issues. Reader Don Smith wonders about the orange key caps that appear in a screenshot from a ...

Lynn Garwood upgraded from Mavericks to El Capitan, but something’s gone wrong with her Keyboard Viewer: In the old system, I could click on the [input palette] icon in the menu bar and see all the ...

9 to 5 Mac observed at the launch of Snow Leopard that the Keyboard Viewer feature found in earlier versions of Mac OS X has seen several changes that spark speculation that Snow Leopard may be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...