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 ...

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 — ...