MarsEdit: Blogging From Your Desktop
MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing email – with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support. It works with most blogging services, including Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, Movable Type, and others. Technorati, and the pinging of many popular blog search engines is also built in. MarsEdit’s live preview and templating system let you view your writing just as it will appear when published. Its text filtering system includes built-in support for many emerging technologies, such as Markdown, SmartyPants, and Textile.
MarsEdit’s interface is quite similar to that of an email application. It allows you to compose posts in a convenient text editor, spell-check it, and publish it to any one of your blogs. It even has a drafts folder for your work in progress items. MarsEdit allows you to add a bookmarklet to your favorite browser and even supports external editing in BBEdit, SubEthaEdit, TextMate, or TextWrangler. It’s also fully AppleScriptable, extending it’s UI to developers.
Even considering all this, there are a few little gripes that come along with it: There is not yet support for the Atom API, nor Vox, and it will not publish behind a proxy requiring authentication. If you don’t particularly like the UI, I recommend trying ecto, another desktop blog authoring application. Though it may not have a few of MarEedit’s features, and costs $17.95, I personally work more efficiently in it’s UI. Even though there are a few bugs here and there, and the UI may not entirely be to your liking, MarsEdit is a great blog authoring tool, and one of the best on OS X.
Great prog! Thanks! Awesome website too!
I’ve been using it for a few months now and it’s well worth the money.