How Do I Get Started as Quickly as Possible? When Clarion first launches, it is set up for practice and quizzing in the default “Major Scale” based configuration. To quickly get a feel for how Clarion works, just click the “Start Quiz” button. You’ll immediately hear two musical notes. In quiz mode, Clarion is acting […]

Among the common connection problems that may prevent MarsEdit from communicating with your blog is the deliberate blocking of WordPress’s API (the interface MarsEdit connects to your blog through) by your web hosting provider, or by a WordPress plugin. In these situations, it can be useful to “whitelist” MarsEdit so that it is allowed to […]

Black Ink supports puzzles in the Across Lite format, available from a variety of free and premium sources. The app is pre-configured to download puzzles from the following premium subscription services: New York Times. The world-famous standard for intellectual puzzles that cover a range of topics. AV Club. a long-standing puzzle source featuring edgier puzzles […]

Liz Gorski’s Crossword Nation is a weekly puzzle subscription that is devoted to creating “Tuesday-level” puzzles. In the scale of New York Times Monday-Saturday puzzle difficulty, this means that they are not completely easy, but not too difficult either. Users with Crossword Nation memberships can open the puzzle directly from Black Ink’s “Web Puzzles” window. […]

For years, MarsEdit has supported Markdown in a manner that makes it easy to write, preview, and publish to a blog without ever working directly with HTML or Rich Text. MarsEdit doesn’t have an explicit “Markdown mode,” but it does support Markdown through its flexible “Preview Filters” mechanism. Here are some guidelines to follow when […]

Some web hosting companies configure their customers’ sites by default so that they reject requests that match a profile that is deemed to be suspicious. These setups can be particularly vexing, because the connection might work perfectly until one day the content of one of your posts happens to trigger the security warning, and your […]

MarsEdit works great with Micro.blog, and includes a number of features specifically targeting the platform. Configuring MarsEdit for Micro.blog If you don’t already have your Micro.blog configured in MarsEdit, check out the Micro.blog help page on using MarsEdit. The main thing to know is that you will need to generate a token for MarsEdit to […]

The Inkubator Crossword is dedicated to publishing puzzles created by women – cis women, trans women, and woman-aligned constructors. Users with Inkubator memberships can open the puzzle directly from Black Ink’s “Web Puzzles” window. Just select File -> Open Web Puzzle -> The Inkubator, and when the prompt appears, enter the email address and password […]

The American Values Club Crossword is a long-standing puzzle source featuring edgier puzzles by well-known “indie” crossword constructors. Users with American Values Club memberships can open the puzzle directly from Black Ink’s “Web Puzzles” window. Just select File -> Open Web Puzzle -> American Values Club, and when the prompt appears, enter the email address […]

The New York Times Crossword is probably the most well-known, and most-solved puzzle in the world. Users with New York Times memberships can open the puzzle directly from Black Ink’s “Web Puzzles” window. Just select File -> Open Web Puzzle -> New York Times Premium, and when the New York Times login page appears, log […]