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 ...

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 ...

Make an alias to /System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/KeyboardViewerServer.app somewhere convenient. Or use Quicksilver; it ...

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 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 ...

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 ...