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There's a four year old AutoCompleted Input plugin that still works in Cocoa apps.

I prefer to keep my desktop icons sized to the max to prevent me from storing too many items there.

I'm surprised to be seeing this from Apple Matters; many of its arguments are quite sensible. This one, however, is hideous. Apple is not trying to be in the consumer display market. Meanwhile, the Mac mini is specifically designed to be used with users' existing peripherals and displays, particularly Windows switchers'.

I have tried iClip. I won a registration to it a year or two ago. However, I was not fond with the interaction. I didn't enjoy the screen real estate its window took up; that was probably my main complaint. I think in general, though, it was just overkill for my note storing habits. I don't frequently share your need to copy multiple fragments in that way; I prefer to use it to store bits of text that have little better place to sit in my file hierarchy. Perhaps the advantages of Spotlight will encourage me to store these notes as text/RTF files somewhere in my hierarchy, which I can access quickly with spotlight. Or, maybe I won't remember anything about them and use an application like iClip or Sidenote to hold onto them in a central place.

Not "Quick Key" but "Key Caps" was the name of the symbol accessory pre-OS X. You still have it, though. It's now Keyboard Viewer. You can find it in the Keyboard menu extra (from International prefs), which is also where you can find the full Character Palette. Or, for either of these, you can use an AppleScript to display a panel. [url=http://www.macparc.ch/]MacParc[/url] distributes them under the names [url=http://www.macparc.ch/mirror/KeyViewer/]KeyViewer[/url] and [url=http://www.macparc.ch/mirror/CharViewer/]CharViewer[/url]. I prefer to use them opened conveniently with LaunchBar.