MarsEdit 5.1b1: Initial Mastodon Support

August 10th, 2023

It’s taken a bit longer than I’d hoped, but I’m finally ready to share a preliminary update to MarsEdit with support for downloading, editing, and publishing posts to Mastodon-based microblogs.

Click here to download MarsEdit 5.1b1 for Mac

To get started, just install the beta, add a new blog, and for the “Homepage URL” of the new blog, enter the URL of the Mastodon instance on which you have an account.

After you’re logged in MarsEdit will download your existing posts and you can use either the regular “New Post” menu item to compose a post, or the “New Micropost” item for a more streamlined interface.

For the time being the Micropost interface still doesn’t support image attachments, but that is something I hope to address before the 5.1 update is finalized.

FastScripts 3.2.7: Restore Bartender Utility Compatibility

June 16th, 2023

FastScripts 3.2.7 is now available on the FastScripts home page, or by selecting “Check for Update” from the FastScripts menu.

This update is a quick fix to restore compatibility with the Bartender menu bar utility. The 3.2.6 update indavertently reverted a fix that was originally added in version 3.0.6.

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FastScripts 3.2.6: macOS Sonoma Beta Fixes

June 8th, 2023

FastScripts 3.2.6 is now available on the FastScripts home page, or by selecting “Check for Update” from the FastScripts menu.

This update is primarily intended for users who are beta testing the forthcoming macOS Sonoma update. Apple made substantial changes to the infrastructure of menus and there were some edge cases for FastScripts to work around.

Here is the complete list of changes for this release:

FastScripts 3.2.6

  • Fix a bug that caused system-wide keyboard shortcuts to appear on script menu items with the same name
  • macOS Sonoma Beta 1 compatibility fixes
    • Fix an issue that prevented option/shift/command modifiers working when selecting menu items
    • Prevent a crash that could occur when pressing the delete key in Scriptlight search field
    • Fix a problem that caused a Scriptlight search result to run twice when invoked with return key from search field

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Black Ink 2.2.7: I Am Not a Robot!

May 1st, 2023

Black Ink 2.2.7 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store.

This update addresses an issue where the New York Times refused to accept logins from Black Ink, asserting that they “suspect you’re a robot.”

If you experienced this problem, you may need to wait a few hours for the New York Times’s security software to “cool off” and allow you to try logging in again. Hopefully with the updated version of Black Ink it will no longer doubt your humanity!

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.