MarsEdit 1.2: Growl, Picasa and Vox!
June 5th, 2007MarsEdit 1.2 is now available for download (or just “Check for Updates” from the app). This is a free update for all registered MarsEdit users.
Three relatively big changes in this release:
Growl support. MarsEdit now triggers Growl notifications after publishing, refreshing, and uploading an image or file.
Picasa image uploads for Blogger.com. This is pretty transparent. Just select your Blogger blog as the upload target from Images & Files, and MarsEdit will pop the images into a MarsEdit album in your Picasa Web Albums account. Note that Picasa only accepts JPG format images for upload.
Vox support. Currently a bit limited by the Vox implementation of Atom Publishing, but a welcome start for you Vox users who are tired of blogging through the web interface. Main limitations right now are you can’t edit or delete previous posts, and you can’t upload images.
On top of that we’ve got a few smaller enhancements and fixes:
- Edit Date panel now defaults to existing post date if it has one
- Context menu item for “Copy URL” when control-clicking a published blog post
- Workaround for MovableType bug that could cause incorrect timezone offset
- Fix memory leaks & improve performance of Images & Files window
- Images & Files upload target now defaults to currently selected blog
Enjoy!
June 5th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Absolutely fantastic. Did you have insider knowledge about the new Santa Rosa’s today? I almost bought one, man, aren’t they great. Fantastic release, congratulations :)
June 5th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Being a paying customer of a programming badass such as yourself makes me feel correspondingly cool. (I’m probably an outlier, though.)
June 5th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Ben: paying customers, definitely very, very cool in my book :)
June 5th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I really like how much the program’s been evolving. Nice job! Even though I’m a TextMate-powered blogging man. ;-)
June 5th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Fantastic! Good that you managed to put in blogger picture support (even before 2.0)! Finally I’ll update my blog. You’ve made another paying customer happy (if not cool) :-)
June 6th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
… I’m blind … where is “check for updates” located within the app?
June 6th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
iain: it’s under the “MarsEdit” menu … of course it wasn’t added until version 1.1.3, so if you’re running an earlier version you’ll have to download and upgrade manually.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
* ah … I have 1.1.2 …. thanks ;-)
June 16th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Daniel, does MarsEdit handle tables or is it the ole hand done html?
June 16th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Hi ajea – it’s currently hand-done, though I’m hoping to support adding tables at some point.
August 24th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Hi Daniel, still no tables? Having used the software for a few weeks, the lack of an ‘easy’ way to get the wordpress skin for preview and no tables are my biggest bugbears.
Other than that though, simple, stable, easy to use. Nice one.