A little more than two years ago, Brent Simmons came to me with an intriguing proposition. Would I be willing to talk with NewsGator about the possibility of taking over MarsEdit, the desktop blog editing software Brent had developed as an adjunct to his RSS feed reader, NetNewsWire. My answer was about as close to […]

It’s hard to believe it’s been more than 3 months since the last update to MarsEdit, our popular desktop blog publishing application. I’ve been hard at work on innumerable new features, and even, dare I speculate, some new apps. Some of these lofty plans have turned out to take a bit more thought and effort […]

Shortly after I blogged about the shortcomings of Tumblr’s API, Marco Arment of Tumblr commented on the post and expressed his sincere desire to set things right. We got to chatting almost immediately, and the results were stunning. Marco made a round of changes in Tumblr as I experimented with the new features via MarsEdit. […]

Peter Verkhovensky recently wished out loud on Twitter for a feature in MarsEdit. He wanted the application to play a sound when a post has been sent successfully to a blog, similar to how Mail can play a noise when sending a message. Although MarsEdit doesn’t have built-in support for this, it turns out to […]