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 […]

I started writing a “What’s wrong with my favorite apps” post almost a year ago (May, 2006). It’s been sitting in my MarsEdit drafts folder ever since (yay, MarsEdit drafts!). I stumbled upon it today and found this choice bit of commentary on MarsEdit itself. I find myself frequently responding to the concerns of users […]