MarsEdit 4.5.8 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update includes a large number of improvements across many distinct areas of the app. Here is the complete list of changes in the release:

• Improved performance and reliability of main window preview of blog posts
• Large images are now constrained visually to fit the width of the Rich Editor
• Added reset buttons in preferences to restore default fonts and colors
• Search now matches when words are found separately in a given post
• Improved VoiceOver accessibility of font preferences
• Errors pertaining to blog configuration or networking now include buttons to open blog settings or network log, respectively
• Prevent a hang that could occur when trying to upload an attachment on a blog that only supports the legacy Blogger API
• Now displays an error instead of crashing when a blog returns an unexpected value when downloading a post
• Fixed an erroneous “Unsupported API” message in preferences
• Fixed a bug that prevented the site icon from loading for some blogs
• Fix a visual glitch with the Post Kind popup menu
• Fix a repeated error alert when refreshing an unconfigured blog
• Scripting: Fixed a bug that prevented setting category names on Micro.blog and other systems that don’t support adding new categories

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.

Black Ink 2.2.3 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store.

This update includes a number of improvements to the new calendar-based puzzle picker, addressing some bugs and also introducing a new behavior that highlights un-downloaded puzzles by showing their dates in bold:

This will make it easier to navigate historical puzzles without bothering to re-open puzzles that have previously been downloaded. Of course, if you do want to re-open a puzzle that is already downloaded, you can select it again from the calendar. In the future I hope to offer more details in this panel such that you can tell whether a downloaded puzzle is partially or fully completed.

Here is the complete list of changes for this release:

• Puzzle picker improvements
  • Undownloaded puzzle dates are now emphasized in the calendar
  • Fix an issue that sometimes prevented the latest puzzle being opened
  • Restore ability to press return in the Puzzle Chooser to open the selected puzzle
  • The puzzle picker calendar now stays in the same general timeframe across subsequent openings
  • If a valid puzzle is not found for a chosen date, the next available puzzle is now downloaded
• Puzzle appearance
  • Restore previous darkness of the puzzle highlight color in Dark Mode
  • More improvements to positioning of letters in puzzle cells
  • Reduced the spacing between clues in the clue lists
• General usability
  • New preference supports automatically closing window after solving a puzzle
  • Fix a rare issue that prevented special answers from being verified/corrected/revealed correctly
  • “Start Over” now clears any puzzle status flags as well as the entered answers

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

Black Ink 2.2.2 is now available on the Black Ink site and has been submitted for approval on the Mac App Store.

This update is a quick fix to yesterday’s 2.2.1 update which addresses a crash that affected some users running macOS 11 or earlier.

Here is the complete list of changes for this release:

• Fix a crashing bug when opening NYT puzzles on some Macs
• Fix drawing of clue text with superscript and subscript characters

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

Black Ink 2.2.1 is now available on the Black Ink page and the Mac App Store.

This update includes a variety of usability and appearance improvements:

• Color preferences can now be reset to default values
• Printed puzzles now include any formatting, e.g. italics, bold, that are specified for clues
• Puzzles based on east coast US timezone should now be available at the appropriate time in other time zones
• Fix a bug in 2.2 that caused kerning of text to be disabled in the clue lists
• Fix a bug that caused the app to sometimes become unresponsive while handling formatted clue text
• Fix auto-shrinking of clue font size to fit longer clues without clipping them
• Fix a variety of cosmetic glitches that affected older versions of macOS
• Fix a bug that prevented clues and grid numbers from being printed by default
• The puzzle timer no longer restarts automatically if a reopened puzzle is already solved
• Checking a puzzle that is complete and correct now re-displays completion panel

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