Black Ink 2.1.1 is now available on the Black Ink site and the Mac App Store.

This update includes a fix for an unusual edge case in puzzles that use the Across Lite puzzle format, but specify “unused” squares in a way that is typically reserved for diagramless puzzles. Why might you care about this fix? Good question! I only came upon an example of such a puzzle a few weeks ago, and set about ensuring that Black Ink would support it. Here’s how it looks:

This bit of inspired puzzle design was created by Brian Thomas and published on his Puzzles That Need a Home blog:

Download Puzzle #53: “2020”

If you don’t already have Black Ink 2.1.1 installed, be sure to download it or update to the latest version before opening the puzzle!

This update also includes a few other bug fixes and enhancements. Here’s the complete list of changes:

• Adapt to support puzzles that mix diagramless and regular formats
• Fix a bug that prevented puzzle window from being resized by dragging the window’s edge
• Selected clue is now scrolled to visible with a little buffer area around it in the clue list
• Now marks any incorrect answers in the puzzle when enabling the “Automatic Correction” preference
• Remove “move to unsolved after switching direction” preference as it was not behaving well

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

MarsEdit 4.4.11 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update primarily addresses an issue with Typewriter Scrolling in the Rich Text editor. Starting with macOS 11 Big Sur, customers have noticed a problem when typing and scrolling, where the text in adjacent lines would draw the wrong text, or appear off-kilter from where it should have been. In this update I revised this feature to work around the evident problem in Apple’s frameworks.

Complete list of changes for this release:

• Fix text glitches in Rich Text editor when using Typewriter Scrolling
• Fix a crash that could occur when opening Preferences with an outdated External Editor setting
• Fix some layout issues in the crash reporter dialog

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

This update is a a quick fix to address a crashing bug when opening posts for editing on macOS 10.12 and 10.13.

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 4.4.8 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted for review on the Mac App Store.

This update includes a number of small improvements, including addressing a bug in 4.4.7 that caused the standard “drag proxy” icon to appear in MarsEdit’s post editor windows. These proxies don’t make sense in MarsEdit because the windows don’t represent user-managed files on disk.

Here’s the complete list of changes in this update:

• Restore hiding of the document proxy icon in post editor
• Improve loading of blogs at launch time to avoid a momentarily blank list
• Improve performance when editing posts on blogs with large numbers of authors
• Fix a bug where the titles of blogs could be cut off in the main window
• Fix a bug that prevented selected sort column from being preserved across launches
• Fix a bug that prevented publish status from being interpreted correctly for AtomPub based blogs.

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.