MarsEdit 5.3.6 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted for review to the Mac App Store.

This update restores functionality that allows creating a post quickly from within Safari or another web browser.

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook, other social networks, or of course, by writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

MarsEdit 5.3.5 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update addresses a crash that is unique to macOS 26, Apple’s forthcoming major update to the Mac operating system.

Here is the list of all changes in this release:

• Fix a crash when opening the main window or document sidebars on macOS 26
• Improvements to launch time performance
• “Duplicate Post” can now be invoked to duplicate more than one selected post
• Minor layout fixes in the Media Manager window

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on social networks, and of course, by writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

FastScripts 3.3.8 is now available on the FastScripts home page, or by selecting “Check for Update” from the FastScripts menu.

This update includes fixes for a few vexing bugs, particularly with respect to using arrow keys to navigate the menu. Many FatsScripts users interact with the menu primarily via the system-wide keyboard shortcut, and recently some issues arose that prevented the right arrow key, for example, from descending into submenus. I’ve also taken the opportunity improve the behavior of the up and down arrow keys for leaving and returning to the search field.

This update also includes refinements to the appearance of the menu’s search field, both on current shipping macOS 15 Macs, and on the forthcoming macOS 26 “Tahoe” system update. The aim here is to have the search field match the appearance of Apple’s Help Menu search field, which it now does much more faithfully!

Here is the complete list of changes for this release:

• Improve menu navigability with arrow keys

• Adapt layout of menu search field to more closely match the style of Apple’s Help menu

• Fix a bug that prevented scripts invoked “with parameters” from showing progress in the menu

• Fix a bug that could cause FastScripts to crash when an invoked script crashed

• Avoid a momentary flash of the FastScripts menu at launch time

If you enjoy FastScripts, please consider spreading the word to your scripting friends. Thanks!

Black Ink 2.4.3 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store.

This update includes a few bug fixes, and a change to the application icon so that it fits in better on the forthcoming macOS 26 Tahoe release.

Anybody who has used the pre-release versions of the new OS has noticed that Apple is going all-in on “rounded rectangle” app icons, to the deteriment of apps with less-uniform shapes. Any app’s icon which would not typically fit into a rounded rectangle is forced into one:

This effect has been deemed “icon jail” by many users, because of the way the old icon seems to be trapped within the confines of the new rectangle. While I am not a huge fan of this shift, I accept that the tide has turned, so Black Ink is the first of my apps to “break out of jail.” In Black Ink’s case, I’m achieving this by adopting the existing iOS app’s icon:

My other apps, including MarsEdit, will receive a similar treatment, soon.

Here is the complete list of changes for this release:

• Updated application icon to match the increasingly popular rounded-rectangle style
• Fixed a bug that prevented smartened quotes from appearing in clue text
• Fixed a bug that caused some clue rows to be too short or too tall
• Improved the appearance of the overlay special entry field on a future OS update

If you enjoy Black Ink, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, and spreading the word on social media! Thanks for your support.