For the past few years, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin recorded an informal, off-the-cuff-seeming podcast called The Talk Show. I didn’t listen to every episode, but I listened from the very beginning, before Dan had even founded the 5by5 network that later became its home. I see The Talk Show’s format as the prototype for many other successful […]

MarsEdit 3.5.3 is now available as a direct download from the MarsEdit home page. A release in the Mac App Store is pending review (Update: now available). This is a free update for licensed MarsEdit customers. MarsEdit 3.5.2 yesterday, 3.5.3 today. Shipping subsequent updates a day apart is almost never a sign that things went the […]

MarsEdit 3.5.2 is now available on the Mac App Store and directly from the Red Sweater Store. This is a free update for licensed MarsEdit customers. Mostly just another batch of bug fixes here, but I snuck in one small feature-tweak that should please writers in character-based languages and authors who aim for character-based writing goals rather than word-based. […]

When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. To access the Library folder, users must now hold down the option key while selecting the “Go” menu in the Finder. This is probably a […]