MarsEdit 4.5.9 is now available on the MarsEdit site and the Mac App Store.

This update includes a few minor fixes, including a change to mitigate problems of the crash reporter appearing repeatedly for some users. These users are typically using a Mac that has a limited amount of disk space free, and in the process attempting to free up disk space, the system preemptively terminates MarsEdit. Starting with MarsEdit 4.5.9 the app may still be terminated by the system, but the app’s built-in crash reporter will no longer treat these as reportable incidents.

Here is the complete list of changes in this update:

• Avoid displaying the crash reporter dialog when the app is force-quit by the system or user
• Updated status bar text throughout the app to use standard system font
• Check for Updates now includes a link to Version History when there are no new updates
• Fix an issue where the font picker could get stuck on the preferences-based font settings
• Fix a bug that caused the inferred title of a title-less post to be one character off

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 4.5.8 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.