The keyboard viewer in OS X has been serving as a useful tool for a long time, allowing users to view keyboard characters with a few clicks of their mouse. Though Apple continues to include the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among Snow Leopard's many refinements are some changes to how Mac OS X displays windows in Exposé—with a regular grid arrangement—and Stacks, which are much easier to scroll through when they become ...

The Mac used to show the characters of whatever font you were currently typing in when you pulled up the Keyboard Viewer from the menu bar. This was super useful when working with various symbol fonts ...

When it comes to managing the vast array of unicode characters in modern font sets, Apple's character viewer tool can be exceptionally useful. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been ...