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PopChar X 4.0
PopChar X, the little utility that gets all of those funky symbols, accents, and other special characters into your documents without having to remember arcane key codes, has been updated to version 4 for Mac.PopChar has been around for over 20 years and is a favorite of editors and designers. To type a special character, you click on a P in the menu bar and a list of characters appears. Selecting the character you want drops it into your current document. Sure, you could always use Apple's Character Palette tool, but it's slow, and difficult to search for a special character in a particular font.PopChar X 4.0 adds a new feature for searching Unicode characters by name across font boundaries. Ergonis, developer of PopChar, provides an example of searching for a "cubic meters" symbol in Helvetica. Typing in "cub" produces no results, but you can click a new "All" button to search across all Unicode fonts. You can download a trial version of PopChar X 4.0, or purchase it online from Ergonis for €29.99. Multiple license packs are available at a discount.
PopChar X 3.0
There are a few applications that increase my productivity to the point where, after awhile, I can't work without them. Quicksilver is one. Another is FinderPop. But when it comes to working on a desktop publishing project for days on end, nothing increases my productivity more than Ergonis' PopChar X. This amazing little application places a tiny letter "P" in the top left corner of your screen next to your Apple menu that gives you quick and easy access to the character sets in your fonts. So if you can't remember the keyboard shortcut for making an umlaut or the copyright symbol, PopChar can quickly help you find these characters and insert them into your document.Version 3.0 of PopChar X sports a completely redesigned and streamlined interface for browsing your installed fonts and their character sets. It has full support for Unicode character sets and can even do HTML character insertion into your code. PopChar is a universal binary and costs $30.00. You can download PopChar and use it in demo mode with some characters being disabled until you register for the full version. If you haven't ever tried PopChar, I encourage to do so now. For me, it's truly one of the great applications for Mac users.
