Brent Simmons unearthed some ancient history from 2002, when MarsEdit was just a twinkle in his weblog-dreaming eye. Check out the screen shot. I’m writing this post in a very early development build of MarsEdit 2.0, which is the great grandchild of Brent’s original TigerEdit vision. The differences are astounding, and yet so are the […]

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 […]

From time to time people ask for a feature in MarsEdit that would allow scheduling of posts for future publication. While I can appreciate the desire for such functionality, the drawbacks to implementing it on the client-side are numerous. To schedule a future post, MarsEdit or a custom tool from MarsEdit needs to run in […]

MarsEdit 1.1.7 is available for download. Another round of “minor but infuriating” bugs have been made history. Hope there’s something here for you to celebrate! Note: The short-lived 1.1.6 update was quickly updated to 1.1.7. The changes below describe the fixes that went into 1.1.6. The change for 1.1.7 was a very small fix for […]