Recently, Mac automation legend Bill Cheeseman retired, and left his highly regarded UI Browser, a utility for interrogating the Mac’s accessibility and GUI scripting facilities, in the hands of Mark Alldritt, who develops Script Debugger. The app is no longer for sale but remains available to download as a free trial, and as a fully functioning product for folks who had already purchased the app.

Today Mark Alldritt announced that UI Browser 4, a Swift rewrite of the app, had also been in development. The great news is that the unfinished product has now been published as open source. There are caveats about the incompleteness of the app, but it’s great to know that there might be a future for this very niche, very useful app. I’ll certainly give the source code a look and see if there are any modest contributions I can make.

Today is the official release date of macOS 13 Ventura, Apple’s latest update to the Mac operating system.

We’re happy to share the news that all Red Sweater apps are 100% compatible with the update. Enjoy!

MarsEdit 4.6.3 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update is a quick follow-up to address a crash that was introduced with 4.6.2. In some scenarios, particularly for blogs that have a long history of media, MarsEdit could crash while refreshing the blog because of missing data on some media items.

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

MarsEdit 4.6.2 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update brings confirmed compatibility with macOS 13 Ventura, which is being released next week. It also includes a number of other fixes:

• Verified compatibility with macOS 13 Ventura
• Fix an issue that prevented image width and height from being included in the generated HTML for some images
• Quotation marks in Alt. Text are now escaped properly when generating HTML for images
• Fix a bug that sometimes caused clicking links in web preview to replace the preview content
• Images in previously published section of Media Manager are now properly sorted from newest to oldest (may require blog refresh)
• VoiceOver improvements to the image view in Media Manager and Upload Utility windows

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