I often explain the benefits of MarsEdit starting with a premise that editing on the desktop beats editing in a web browser. I believe this to be true even when the playing field is level, and web interfaces are operating at their best. Unfortunately, thanks to a large number of ever-changing browser environments, web interfaces […]

Twitter, for those of you haven’t heard, is an online communication system where users broadcast their thoughts, feelings, rants, and rambles to the world. Or more precisely, to a subset of the world that wants to listen, and to anybody who stumbles upon such a result in Google. You can follow my tweets if you […]

MarsEdit has a little shortcoming that can cause a vexing situation from time to time. It takes what you type or paste into it a bit too literally. So if you flub up at the keyboard and make some wacky keystrokes, you might end up with a weird “invisible character” in your blog post. What […]

When Gus Mueller released Acorn, his fundamentally rethought bitmap image editing app, I was excited. Partly because it filled a void in my tool belt, but more because I knew it was the start of something big. The best thing about a 1.0 release from any skilled developer is you know it’s only the tip […]