No, not a clearance sale, I’m talking about MarsEdit’s support for Markdown, the easy-to-read text formatting language invented by John Gruber. Using Markdown, you can format your text using old-fashioned ASCII symbols like you might have done on bulletin boards or USENET. Once Markdown gets a crack at your asterisks, hyphens, and hash-marks, it translates […]

In the years since I first started developing FastScripts, all manner of keyboard-shortcut type solutions have popped up, including the enormously ambitious Quicksilver, and the refined, trigger-action-oriented Butler. But some of us still appreciate FastScripts for its simplicity. Put scripts in the standard Apple-location, cmd-select them from the FastScripts menu, and assign a keystroke. FastScripts […]

From time to time people ask for a feature in MarsEdit that would allow scheduling of posts for future publication. While I can appreciate the desire for such functionality, the drawbacks to implementing it on the client-side are numerous. To schedule a future post, MarsEdit or a custom tool from MarsEdit needs to run in […]

A round of bug fixes and minor tweaks for Black Ink: Fix memory leaks Allow selection for copy/paste of clue text and puzzle credits Fix for “smart quotes” and similar characters found in some puzzles Fix bug with puzzles having no value for any of author, title, or copyright Add menu link to “Get More […]