Tips from Mother Apple

We're all keen to learn more about how to improve our personal productivity with a Mac... except, possibly, Michael Dell.

Where better to get some tips than from the mothership herself? Apple has a useful archive of tips on using the features of OS X worth perusing.

One particularly useful tip for educators, other than "quit teaching and go into business", is using the character palette to allow students to find special characters by simply holding down various keys, like the Option or Command keys, and seeing a live keyboard on the screen show the characters.

You can access the Character Palette by Edit -> Special Character in OS X built-in apps, but a better way for schools is to have the students turn on the checkbox in System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu, and leave it easily accessible at all time under the flag in the Tool Bar.

And, hey, just remember, you're all special characters to us...