Keyboard Viewer erratic behavior Reader Colin Gallagher describes an issue with Panther's Keyboard Viewer where the Viewer palette will disappear and reappear erratically: "The Viewer attempts to load ...

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 ...

Podcasters and sound engineers often put together what’s called a “soundboard,” which is a collection of frequently used short audio clips that they can trigger with a click. Sometimes these are used ...

OS X includes a couple of handy utilities for dealing with symbol characters in fonts—you know, things like the copyright symbol (©), the divide character (÷), the registered trademark symbol (®), and ...

Have you ever needed to insert a special character while typing a document in Mac OS X, but didn’t know how? Apple doesn’t provide an easily accessible way to view which keys generate which characters ...

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 — ...