Black Ink 2.1.9 is now available on the Black Ink site and has been submitted for review to the Mac App Store.

This update addresses a bug with New York Times puzzle importing that caused today’s puzzle, October 31, 2021, to be imported wrong. If you already imported today’s puzzle you will need to delete the puzzle file from your Mac and then re-import the puzzle to get the correctly formatted puzzle.

The update also improves conversion of NYT puzzles by translating shaded puzzles to circled squares, and by improving compatibility with Across Lite.

Complete list of changes for this release:

• Fix an issue importing October 31, 2021 NYT puzzle
• NYT Puzzles with “shaded squares” now appear as circled squares
• Restored compatibility of saved NYT puzzles with Across Lite

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.

Today Apple is launching macOS Monterey (12.0), the latest update to their Mac operating system.

I’ve been testing Red Sweater’s apps with the new system for several months and am happy to confirm that all of our apps are 100% compatible with the update. Enjoy!

MarsEdit 4.5.4 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update includes an option for media syncing to download only thumbnail-sized images, for folks who don’t want to download a complete archive of the images on their blog. It also includes a fix for editing Page type entries on WordPress blogs, and a variety of other fixes:

• Support a new per-blog option to download only thumbnails instead of full-sized image files from WordPress blogs
• Fix an issue that caused editing WordPress Page entries to prompt for a password
• Improve error messages for WordPress blogs when user is not permitted to perform certain tasks
• Relative dates of items in the post list are now updated periodically to keep them accurate
• Fix an issue that caused blank posts to be opened at launch in some instances
• Revise the appearance of progress panels displayed by the app

Update: MarsEdit 4.5.5 is now available, with a quick fix for a crashing bug that could affect users whose posts list is empty.

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

This update includes more refinements to the Media Manager changes that debuted in 4.5, restoring the ability to drag images from the Upload List to a post, and fixing a number of minor bugs.

Here’s the complete list of changes for this release:

MarsEdit 4.5.3

• Restored ability to drag files from the Uploads list to the post content or featured image
• Fixed a crash when dragging images from Apple Photos in the Media Manager
• Fixed a problem that caused JavaScript to be disabled in the Blog Preview for some users
• Control-clicking an item in the Media Manager now selects it before presenting a contextual menu
• Fixed a bug that caused the post editor window to become frontmost after it finished sending to blog
• Fixed a bug that prevented all tags from being deleted from an already-published WordPress post
• Scripted replacement of text in plain text editor now preserves selection
• “Edit Read More Content” menu item now works even if the text content area was not focused

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.