The results are in for the 2007 MacTech 25, a community-selected list of the 25 “most influential” members of the Mac community. (Apple employees are not eligible, or else the list would probably look a lot different!)

I couldn’t be more thrilled, because not only does the list include everybody I suggested as good candidates, it also includes me!

I’m particularly happy to share the honor with so many people I have so much respect for. I would try to itemize them but there are just so many that I am still in awe of actually being listed among them. Many thanks to those who voted for me. It feels great to be recognized, and I’m glad if it means I’ve had a positive influence on you.

I would also like to point out that everybody who has programmed for MarsEdit is on the MacTech 25 list this year :) This project has the golden touch!

I swear we didn’t coordinate this, but MarsEdit’s older sibling NetNewsWire also celebrates a new release, turning 3.0 today!

I’ve been using this in its pre-release form for months and am very confident about its power and stability. A really excellent update. Nice work, Brent!

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 pretty transparent. Just select your Blogger blog as the upload target from Images & Files, and MarsEdit will pop the images into a MarsEdit album in your Picasa Web Albums account. Note that Picasa only accepts JPG format images for upload.

Vox support. Currently a bit limited by the Vox implementation of Atom Publishing, but a welcome start for you Vox users who are tired of blogging through the web interface. Main limitations right now are you can’t edit or delete previous posts, and you can’t upload images.

On top of that we’ve got a few smaller enhancements and fixes:

• Edit Date panel now defaults to existing post date if it has one
• Context menu item for “Copy URL” when control-clicking a published blog post
• Workaround for MovableType bug that could cause incorrect timezone offset
• Fix memory leaks & improve performance of Images & Files window
• Images & Files upload target now defaults to currently selected blog

Enjoy!

This blog post was written with out pressing the keyboard or clicking the mouse! Check it out!

Here’s a movie of me “typing” the above text with Dasher, an alternative text input interface.

Thanks to Jon Wight for tipping me off to Dasher.