Overly Impressed
I am overly impressed with the piece of software that I am using to write this post, which is called MarsEdit. Here’s a screenshot.
Doesn’t look like much, but the developers really did something VERY cool. When you first start up the app, it asks you for the name and URL of your blog. OK, so I type in “Write That Down” and “http://www.writethatdown/”. I say to myself, “there’s gotta be additional settings that I have to provide in order for this thing to work.” So, I go and write up a test post and click the “Send to Weblog” button — I’m still thinking at this point, it’s going to ask me for the service I use, but nope — just asks for a username and password. It auto-sensed what blogging service I use, and connected to it. Cool!
I don’t know why that impressed me so much, but it did. Cool app, guys. I’m seriously thinking about investing the $25 USD at the end of my trial (aka, $1,000.00 CDN) to keep using it. We’ll see how things go over the next few weeks.
If you have a blog / Mac, I’d suggest looking into MarsEdit. It doesn’t only work with Typepad, but a slew of other blogging services as well.
January 30th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Thanks! I’m glad you like it!