MarsEdit

MarsEdit

Developer(s)	Red Sweater Software
Stable release	3.3 / May 27th, 2011
Operating system	Mac OS X
Type	Blog client
License	Proprietary
Website	www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/

MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X. It supports posting to many popular blogging services, such as blogger, Movable Type, Tumblr and WordPress.

Features

• Bookmarklets for sending a page from your browser to MarsEdit.
• Image and file uploading.
• Preview templates.
• Spell checking.
• Custom tags.
• Sends updates notices to blo.gs, Technorati, and Weblogs.com.
• AppleScript support.
• XML-RPC console for debugging server problems.

History

MarsEdit was originally developed as a component of NetNewsWire, a popular news aggregator for Mac OS X, which, in the 1.0 series, included a simple weblog editor. During the development of NetNewsWire 2.0, the developers decided to move the blog editor functionality to a new application. The resulting application, MarsEdit 1.0, was released on November 28, 2005.

With the acquisition of NetNewsWire by NewsGator in 2005, the future of MarsEdit was uncertain for a time. On November 4 of 2005, it was revealed that MarsEdit development would be continued by Gus Mueller of Flying Meat.^[1]

In February 2007, MarsEdit was purchased by Red Sweater Software, and is now being developed by Red Sweater's owner, Daniel Jalkut.

MarsEdit 2.0 was released in September 2007, with a refined user interface and several new features including Flickr integration.^[2]

MarsEdit 2.3 was released in March 2009 and includes support for the popular Tumblr blog service.

Marsedit 3.0 was released in May 2010 and includes WYSIWYG editing, enhanced WordPress support, and image library integration.

External links

• MarsEdit web site

References

1. ^ Brent Simmons. "Meet the new MarsEdit Programmer". http://inessential.com/2005/11/04/meet_the_new_marsedit_programmer. 
2. ^ "MarsEdit 2 - Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac". http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/new.html.