Paint it orange
Reader Don Smith marvel about the orangish primal capital that appear in a screenshot from a late column .
My badness , I could have chosen a more representative stab or explained why those key are orange . countenance me to do so now .
Those orangish keys indicate a exceptional two - key combining — one where you press the Option headstone , one of these quality ( tilde , e , u , i , or n ) , and then espouse it up by pressing the letter key that the special orange cardinal symbol should be applied to . For example , if I want to create theécharacter , I press Option - E and then E to use the accent to the e.
Viewing Keyboard Viewer
A couple of readers have had some trouble make Keyboard Viewer seem on their Macs . Reader Dan Hessler wrote in to say :
KeyViewer is free and requires that you ’re running Mac OS X 10.4 or higher .
Keyboard Viewer alternative
Paul Norton arrange voice to a coarse frustration with Keyboard Viewer :
Yep , Keyboard Viewer does a good caper with “ real ” fiber font , but when you move into symbol and dingbats , you ’ve engender a job . Apple ’s Character Palette can facilitate in this regard because it will show you all those oddball grapheme and allow you to sneak in them into your textbook , but it ’s not the most intuitive utility Apple ’s create . ( You switch this on just as you do Keyboard Viewer . Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu and turn on the Character Palette selection . It will seem in the Input menu in the carte bar if you ’ve enabled it . )
For quickly finding and apply these arcane characters I habituate Egonis ’ $ 30PopChar X. Install it and it ’s activate by get across in the upper - go forth turning point of the Mac ’s menubar . pick out the font you want from a pop - up carte and choose the character you like .
Chasing away spam
The dirtbags who are responsible for for the late Chase bank phishing scheme — the one that suggests your bank report has been compromised and that everything would be so much better if only you send personal selective information to a ring of crooks — have risen to the top of my list of spammer who I hope to see tossed into a dank donjon . I ’ve got good junk e-mail filters in place , but these messages are so prevalent that a few of them have slipped through .
When this kind of affair survive on for more than a week ( and I suppose we ’re in week three of this one ) , it ’s time to take sterner measures . I ’ve done so by produce a pattern that looks for and automatically diverts into a Spam folder messages that include the wordChasein the From field . Unless you routinely receive logical messages from this financial instauration ( or are a member in good standing of the American Steeplechase League ) , you might do so as well .
