I’ve been so busy working on the next release of MarsEdit that I haven’t had a lot of time to do much else, aside from my normal second job as head of customer support! But I’ve been seeing a lot of exciting things happening, and I want to help spread the word, along with my […]

Brent Simmons writes about designing the first-launch experience for NetNewsWire 3.1. I find his reasoning especially interesting because MarsEdit also has a strong incentive to provide users with a smooth first-launch experience. One of the points that resonates most for me is Brent’s point about friction: Present as little friction as possible—don’t overwhelm the new […]

My friend Brent Simmons, developer of the amazing NetNewsWire client, which I think I neglected to mention, but you probably learned anyway, turned free eariler this month, has written up a nice summary of the ways in which NetNewsWire serves as a router for incoming RSS feeds. I’m especially struck by this analysis because the […]

My friends at Plasq software made an exciting announcement today: Skitch is now available as a public beta! What is Skitch, and why might this be exciting to you? Well, Skitch is, in a nutshell, a screen capture and image editing utility that makes it extremely easy to edit, draw on, and type over images […]