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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

There are times when the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune lead OS X users into using Windows keyboards. Should you find yourself in such a situation, one of the first things you need to deal ...

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 ...

If you do much typing at all—especially if you dabble in graphic design or publishing—you’ll eventually need hidden typographic characters such as ®, ©, ™, ° and maybe even € and £. Back in 1984, the ...

The Option key on a Mac is a modifier key that is used to change the functions of menus and keyboard shortcuts. Use Option key to do things like force quit unresponsive apps, fine-tune the volume and ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Chrome OS is undergoing aesthetic and functional shifts as its design philosophy changes to more closely resemble Android's.