MarsEdit 5.2 is now available on the MarsEdit site and the Mac App Store.

This update includes a number of long-requested (and some more recently-requested!) improvements, and a some bug fixes.

Search & Find Improvements

The “Search” field in the main window now features a filter selection to toggle between searching everything or searching just the current selection.

Inline “Find” support is now available in the rendered versions of posts in the Preview Window or Main Window.

Micropost Panel

New defaults are available under Settings -> Blogs -> Publishing to specify which Categories, Tags, and Post Kind should be used when publishing with the Micropost panel.

Web Preview Performance

The live Web Preview is now even more performant, using an approach wherein only the modified portion of a post is updated in the preview as you type. Additionally, posts with embedded scripts should now have the scripts run as part of the preview process.

Duplicate Posts

A new menu item for duplicating posts makes it easy to create an all-new post starting with the content of an exiting draft or post. The new post is stripped of any relationship to the original so that publishing it to the same blog, for example, will not update the original post.

The ability to duplicate posts may serve as an aid on blogs where posts repeatedly follow the same pattern or template. You might, for example, keep a Local Draft “starting point” and use that to create duplicates which are then fleshed out and published.

Options Side Panel

The Options side panel has been revised so that the section titled “Server Options” is now named “Publication” and presented at the top of the side panel. This section now features a new inline editor for the publication date of a post, and an icon to quickly bring up the interactive calendar-based date selector.

And more…

This update includes a number of other little improvements and bug fixes. Here is the complete list of changes:

• Search now supports searching all blogs or just the selected blog
• New per-blog default settings for Micropost categories, tags, and post format
• Added “Duplicate Post” menu item to create a new post with the same content as an existing post
• Web preview enhancements
  • Smarter preview updating for higher performance and less reloading of embedded content like movies
  • Now runs embedded <script> nodes in blog post content to support various dynamically updated elements
  • Can now use “Find” to search post content displayed in the main window or preview window
• Revised design of the Options side panel, renaming “Server Options” to “Publication”
• Added published date to the Options side panel
• Alt Text field in Upload Utility and Media Manager now grows vertically to accommodate longer descriptions
• Double-clicking a date in the calendar date picker now selects and dismisses the panel
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix a bug that caused Micro.blog blogs to download more posts than specified in settings
  • Forbidden characters are now stripped from XML data when parsing a server response fails
  • Fix a bug introduced in 5.1.4 that caused “offset” parameters to be encoded as boolean in XMLRPC
  • Fix a cosmetic issue in the Software Updater when switching from light to dark mode
  • Fix a bug where dragging an image to the end of a line in the plain text editor would drop it on the following line

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.

FastScripts 3.3.2 is now available on the FastScripts home page, or by selecting “Check for Update” from the FastScripts menu.

This update includes a variety of fixes to improve the reliability and functionality of the app. Notably, you can now “select” running tasks from the script menu. It won’t run the script again, but if you hold any of the usual keyboard modifiers (shift, option, or command) while selecting, it will invoke the expected function (reveal, edit, or set keyboard shortcut).

Complete list of changes for this release:

FastScripts 3.3.2

• Running tasks now reflect menu focus and can be selected with keyboard modifiers to reveal/edit/etc.
• Fixes to update the menu correctly when changes are made to aliased or symlinked folders
• The script menu is now updated accordingly when a file’s Finder visibility changes
• Work around an issue where FastScripts’s menu dismisses after clicking when secure input is disabled
• Fix the “Open Web Page” scripting addition so it continues working on macOS 14.4+

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Black Ink 2.3.2 is now available on the Black Ink site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store. Black Ink 2.1.2 for iOS has been submitted to the iOS App Store.

This update fixes a bug, introduced in the previous updates to both apps, that caused an alert to appear after every entry if “Automatic Correction” is enabled and the puzzle has no answers included. Worse, on iOS the attempt to display the alert resulted in a crash.

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Black Ink 2.3.2 for Mac is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store. Black Ink 2.1.2 for iOS is now available on the iOS App Store.

These updates include a number of usability fixes and add two new puzzle sources: Lex’s Puzzles, and Lex’s Minis. These are the puzzles of Lex Friedman, who publishes crossword puzzles as well as a number of other games at Lex.games. Lex’s Minis are free for anybody to download and solve, while Lex’s Puzzles (full-sized 15×15) require a Lex.games subscription.

Here are the changes that apply to both iOS and Mac updates:

• New puzzle sources: Lex’s Minis and Lex’s Crosswords
• Improved the accuracy of overlay image drawing over puzzle grid
• Attempting to check or reveal answers on puzzles with no answers now displays an explanatory alert

• Now supports entering a hyphen or a period as a special entry answer

These changes are specific to the Mac update:

• Fixed the drawing of overlay image drawing in printed puzzles
• Improve performance when opening the puzzle chooser when it has to search many years for an unsolved puzzle
• Now adapts the window size more precisely when screen resolution changes
• Fix a glitch that caused the Puzzle Notes text to no longer fit in the popover when detached from window
• Puzzle chooser now ensures the selected source name is visible

• Fix an issue that caused excessive memory when opening and closing many puzzles

And these are specific to the iOS and Vision Pro update:

• Fix a crash that could occur when using a mouse on iPad and selecting the “Enter Special Answer” button
• Fix a bug that caused Restore Purchases to erroneously show “Lifetime Unlock” as purchased
• When a very long clue is displayed, make sure the corresponding space in the puzzle is scrolled into view
• Added a close button to NYT authentication 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 other social networks.