I’ve been running OS X Lion for a long time and generally enjoying it. But at some point along the line, Safari 5.1 stopped correctly inserting my keychain passwords into forms for me. For the longest time, I assumed it was simple mistakes: I had neglected to ever approve “remember this password,” or I had [...]

I’m tracking down a mysterious behavior of Safari in Lion, where it seems to fail to enter my password for logins that I’ve saved to the keychain. In the process of looking into this, I noticed that “Keychain Scripting” has mysteriously disappeared from Lion. As far as I can tell you must copy Apple’s scripting addition [...]

I released FastScripts 2.6.1 today, which restores support for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and also includes a few bug fixes and enhancements. One cool trick in 2.6.1 is the way FastScripts behaves when your scripts include “keystroke” commands to synthesize keyboard presses. In the past, these scripts were tricky to get right in FastScripts, [...]

For a very long time, MarsEdit has included built-in support for processing text with Markdown, so users who publish in that text-based format can see in MarsEdit’s preview window how the post will look after it’s published. It’s becoming more and more common for folks who use and love Markdown to expect it to behave the [...]