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Dictionary Lookups in Black Ink

Friday, March 27th, 2020

Crossword lovers enjoy Black Ink’s beautifully rendered puzzle grids, elegant solving dynamics, and the ease with which you can download and solve puzzles right on your Mac. But there are many other features lurking just beneath the surface. One lesser-known capability leans on the brilliant system-wide dictionary lookup service that Apple provides, built-in to every […]

MarsEdit’s Secret Title Bar Preference

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

Michael Tsai wrote today about the accessibility challenges presented by Mac toolbars that do not have text labels. These are an unfortunate consequence of opting for macOS’s “no titlebar” style appearance, which has become increasingly popular in recent years. As Michael points out, MarsEdit is among the apps that has embraced it. This is how […]

Configuring WordPress Custom Fields in MarsEdit

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Custom fields are a powerful feature of many WordPress blogs. You can add custom fields to support specific behaviors that are not supported by default. You might add custom fields to support plugins that do SEO optimization, associate custom downloadable data with a post, or to control some other feature of a custom theme or […]

Second Level Of Security

Friday, May 20th, 2016

An issue MarsEdit users are running into with increased frequency is a challenge, when trying to connect to a blog, for a “second level of security” password. This panel is usually only displayed when a blog has been configured with an HTTP Basic protection to ensure it is completely private: However it is recently being […]