MarsEdit
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| MarsEdit | |
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 MarsEdit 1.1 under Mac OS X 10.4.3. |
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| Developed by | Red Sweater Software |
| Latest release | 2.0 / Sep 6th, 2007 |
| OS | Mac OS X |
| Genre | Blog client |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/ |
MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X. It supports posting to many popular blogging services, such as Blogger, Movable Type and WordPress.
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[edit] Features
- Bookmarklets for sending a page from your browser to MarsEdit.
- Image and file uploading.
- Preview templates.
- Spell checking.
- Custom tags.
- Sends updates notices to blo.gs, Technorati, and Weblogs.com.
- AppleScript support.
- XML-RPC console for debugging server problems.
[edit] History
MarsEdit was originally developed as a component of NetNewsWire, a popular news aggregator for Mac OS X, which, in the 1.0 series, included a simple weblog editor. During the development of NetNewsWire 2.0, the developers decided to move the blog editor functionality to a new application. The resulting application, MarsEdit 1.0, was released on November 28th, 2005.
With the acquisition of NetNewsWire by NewsGator in 2005, the future of MarsEdit was uncertain for a time. On November 4th of 2005, it was revealed that MarsEdit development would be continued by Gus Mueller of Flying Meat[1].
In February 2007, MarsEdit was purchased by Red Sweater Software, and is now being developed by Red Sweater's owner, Daniel Jalkut.
MarsEdit 2.0 was released in September 2007, with a refined user interface and several new features including Flickr integration[2].
