Your computer keyboard has about 64 keys on it. That’s great for letters and numbers—but what about symbols, like these? On the Mac, it’s worth learning them. Hold down the Option key and type 2 for ...

On-screen keyboards are pretty great these days thanks to gesture typing and all sorts of autocorrect and next-word suggestion features. Things can always improve, which is why Google Keyboard, also ...

But if you frequently type special characters, a more-convenient option is Characters ( Mac App Store link). Whenever you need to “type” a special character, you just click Characters’s systemwide ...

When writing about people, places, or other things that use accents and other special symbols outside the 26 letters of the standard English alphabet, there are ways to add them to a document without ...

Anyone who's had to learn math or physics in school may have encountered pi at one point. More popularly known and written out in its Greek lowercase letter counterpart, π, it's essentially the ratio ...

Your computer keyboard has about 64 keys on it. That’s great for letters and numbers—but what about symbols? Yahoo's David Pogue has a few tricks to share.