View this article at: http://dev.macnn.com/articles/07/01/04/two.free.widgets.released Thursday, Jan 04, 2007 2:50pm CharacterPal, Uncle Sam wid... Taco Widgets has released CharacterPal 4.0, a free dashboard widget designed to find the key combinations for special characters such as accents and symbols. CharacterPal includes keyboard and HTML combinations for Greek, Mathematic, Latin extension/accent, and keyboard symbol characters as well as URL escape codes. The widget includes 10 different keyboard layouts with various fonts, and is designed as a transparent palette with built-in desktop use accessible from the back side. CharacterPal requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later. Taco Widgets also unveiled Uncle Sam 4.0, another free dashboard widget that presents cynical, random quotes. The widget includes 800 random quotes with 12 different skins, offers clipboard compatibility, and stores the quote list in plain text format. Uncle Sam requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.