Archive for the 'MarsEdit' Category

MarsEdit 1.2: Growl, Picasa and Vox!

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

MarsEdit 1.2 is now available for download (or just “Check for Updates” from the app). This is a free update for all registered MarsEdit users. Three relatively big changes in this release: Growl support. MarsEdit now triggers Growl notifications after publishing, refreshing, and uploading an image or file. Picasa image uploads for Blogger.com. This is […]

XML-RPC Response Parsing Failed

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

We are currently living through a minor sort of plague when it comes to remote editing of PHP-based blogs. As web hosting companies upgrade to PHP 5.2.2, some of you may notice that your attempts to publish or edit entries with MarsEdit yields an error dialog with a cryptic error “XML-Response Parsing Failed.” This bug […]

TigerEdit: Weblog Editor Of The Future

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

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 […]

MarsEdit Markdown

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

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 […]