It’s been two months since Tumblr surprised me by suddenly dropping support for MarsEdit and countless other clients that connect to their service using a previously approved technique with their 1.0 API. This reduced MarsEdit’s functionality to posting only, eliminating the ability to download and edit existing posts. Two weeks ago, they finished the job, by […]

Gus Mueller of Flying Meat is a good friend who, for a short time, even worked on MarsEdit. Much to my chagrin, Gus doesn’t actually use MarsEdit for editing his own blogs. When I’ve asked him why, he explains that he’s too tied to a particular setup involving VoodooPad, his desktop wiki app. To make […]

MarsEdit 3.5.5 is now available on the Mac App Store and directly from the Red Sweater Store. This is a free update for licensed MarsEdit customers. This release is primarily of interest to customers with Retina MacBook Pro computers: all of the toolbar icons and other incidental art has been updated to appear crisp and beautiful on HiDPI […]

MarsEdit has featured support for connecting to Tumblr blogs since February 27th, 2009. Since that time, it has always lacked a few features such as support for editing video and audio posts, but with the exception of some particularly flakey periods in Tumblr’s network availability, the feature has been solid, and appreciated by mutual customers […]