Archive for the 'Web' Category

MarsEdit Markdown

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

No, not a clearance sale, I’m talking about MarsEdit’s support for Markdown, the easy-to-read text formatting language invented by John Gruber. Using Markdown, you can format your text using old-fashioned ASCII symbols like you might have done on bulletin boards or USENET. Once Markdown gets a crack at your asterisks, hyphens, and hash-marks, it translates […]

SimpleBits and Simpletons

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

By now there’s a good chance you’ve heard about the exceedingly silly ripoff of Dan Cederholm’s new SimpleBits logo. Basically, this graphics clearinghouse called LogoMaid made the mistake of acquiring, and proceeding to offer for sale, a logo that has an undeniable resemblance to Dan’s original art. A forgiveable mistake, maybe – but the problem […]

Macinstruct: How To Blog Using MarsEdit

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

The folks at Macinstruct have put together a really nice tutorial: How To Blog Using MarsEdit Really nice work! I’m looking forward to seeing what other content they come out with in the coming weeks.

MacBreak Weekly Mentions

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Wow! What a thrill to be listening to one of my favorite podcasts, MacBreak Weekly, and suddenly Leo Laporte is uttering my name, and expressing his satisfaction about my acquisition of MarsEdit. And then I think I was so excited that I started hallucinating, because it almost sounded like Merlin Mann chimed in about FlexTime, […]