Black Ink 2.3.3 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store.

This update includes a grab bag of fixes but some that may pop out as useful to you are the fix for the calendar picker, improved clue layout when printing, and exposing more information via VoiceOver when navigating the puzzle:

• Fix a bug that prevented the puzzle chooser from defaulting to the previously selected month and year
• Non-applicable comments in some visual NYT clues are no longer displayed
• Printing improvements to avoid splitting a clue’s text across pages or wrapping prematurely
• Puzzle timer now records puzzle solve timing even if timer is not visible
• If the app is opened in the background, puzzle timer won’t start until app is activated
• Accessibility Improvements:
  • Puzzle square status such as being circled or shaded, marked incorrect, etc., are now announced by VoiceOver
  • Fix a bug that could prevent changed values to cells being reflected by VoiceOver

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.

MarsEdit 5.2.6 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update includes a workaround for a crashing bug on macOS Sequoia, mitigates “-1005” networking errors, and more.

The crashing bug is due to a bug in Apple’s “Token Field” support, which is used by MarsEdit for the tags field. If you’ve noticed MarsEdit crashing when you hover with the mouse over the Tags field, this is the fix for you! The app now suppresses the error thrown by the system, which previously caused the app to crash.

The “-1005” networking errors have been a vexing issue affecting a relatively small number of users, most of whom seem to use WordPress.com or another Automattic based hosting service. While I haven’t gotten completely to the bottom of this issue, I made a change in this version of MarsEdit so that when the error is encountered, the app will now retry a few times to make the same network request. In limited tests so far, this seems to help some users who are seeing the errors.

Here is the complete list of changes for this release:

• Work around a bug in macOS 15.0 that can cause the app to crash when hovering the mouse over the Tags field
• Mitigate the impact of spurious networking issues that cause “-1005” errors for some blogs
• The Micropost panel now opens on the active Desktop even if MarsEdit is assigned to a specific Desktop
• An alert is now displayed if setting a keyboard shortcut fails because of new restrictions in macOS 15 Sequoia
• Temporary posts for automatic preview detection are now backdated 10 years to prevent them showing up in RSS feeds/etc.
• Fix a bug that caused duplicated text when using dictation in the Rich Text editor

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

MarsEdit 5.2.5 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

Normally I like to wait longer than one week before releasing a new update, but after MarsEdit 5.2.4 was released I noticed a visually annoying bug that caused the Search field in the main window to draw with an absurdly large rectangle around it. That could not stand!

As it happens I had fixed a few other things over the past few days, so here we go:

• Fix a bug that caused the main window search field to appear too tall for the toolbar
• Blog defaults for publish status, comments, text filter, and trackbacks are now applied to Microposts
• The default preview template now shows table borders on rows and columns
• The Replace section in Find/Replace interface is now always visible
• Fix a bug that prevented images inserted in the rich editor from being scrolled to visible

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

MarsEdit 5.2.4 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update includes a couple important fixes:

• Restore functionality of the Rich Text editor on macOS 15 betas
• Fix a bug that could cause multiple blog configurations to show the same posts

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