As I mentioned in my last post, Really Simple Discovery is a mechanism by which blog editors (such as MarsEdit) can programmatically obtain information about the publishing APIs a particular blog supports. Most of the “big blogs” support this feature, albeit to varying degrees of usefulness. Take a look at the source code to this […]

Although the vast majority of MarsEdit users are using it to manage posts on one of the big publicly available blogging systems, there are a good number of users, especially in the tech community, who run their own custom blog or blog-like software. I’ve received several private inquiries and this public one, all asking about […]

With all the excitement surrounding Red Sweater’s acquisition of MarsEdit two weeks ago, it’s hard to believe there is yet another product rapidly approaching its public unveiling. The name of the product is “Black Ink,” and it’s coming very soon! I just need to put some finishing touches on the registration system, and fix a […]

I’ve recently seen two bug reports about the behavior of the MarsEdit “Bookmarklet,” the little link that you can stick in your browser’s toolbar to easily “reblog” stuff that you find on the web. The gist of the problem is that special characters end up getting junked in transition so that they show up as […]