11/14/2023 0 Comments Setup marsedit![]() If you prefer the best of both worlds, you can switch easily between the two. ![]() Whether you love HTML or can't bear the sight of it, MarsEdit's editor will thrill you. ![]() MarsEdit is an accessible, feature-rich blogging app for Mac OS X, and it was recently demonstrated by Mike Malarsie in a podcast.Īs described on the MarsEdit website, MarsEdit's features include: I am not keen on paying for software, in fact my company is founded on the belief that the best computing experience for the average user is based on the least expense possible.Do you have a Mac and a blog? Do you wish you had an easy, accessible, and feature-rich program to help make writing and publishing your posts a snap? If you answered "yes" to either of these questions, then read on and enter to win a copy of MarsEdit - the blog editor for WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger and more. Most people do not require paid for software, which is why when it comes to blogging I recommend all my customer's use Microsoft's very FREE Windows Live! Writer, which i have mentioned many times on this blog before and is generally accepted by most bloggers as the worlds best software for blogging. However I use Mac OS X more and more these days and trying to find a good app/program for blogging on the Mac is not an easy task. I have briefly tried Red-Sweater's MarsEdit in the past and the results were not good I was new to OS X back then. Now, nearly a year on I am much more conversant with the delights of Apple's OS X and after reading Luke188's brief review of MarsEdit I have decided to give it another shot. I have to be honest, MarsEdit does not come close to Windows Live! Writer in stakes of appearance or functionality. Maybe this is because I am so very used to Microsoft's product and my view is tainted? It is a boring application to look at and nothing seems 'obvious'. When creating a post in WLW I can see as I type exactly how the finished article will look. With MarsEdit I am typing black text onto a white background and that is it. ![]() Setting MarsEdit up for use with DieselTekk was simple though, as Luke explains in his article. "The setup was extremely easy and fast, once I entered the URL to my blog and my account details, I was in. So setup was simple, and creating a new post is simple (just click on the New Post icon in the toolbar). after clicking on the New Post icon i was presented with the option to create the post in Rich Text or HTML. I have not yet found a method to change from my current option (Rich Text) to HTML. Inserting a image is a simple procedure select Media from the toolbar and navigate to the picture (or other file) of your choosing, make some choices regarding size, alignment, ALT Text etc and thats about it. Media options (or rather more specifically image options) are severely lacking. I can not as yet find a means of adding a watermark, adjusting paddings, tilt's, reflections or any of the other fun stuff I am used to being able to do with images within Windows Live! Writer. The image shown here (to the left) of my son could be made so much more interesting with WLW but MarsEdit seems to think either it is fine as it is, or if I want to edit the image in anyway then I am happy to do it in another program. Over all I am less than impressed with MarsEdit and I don't think it is because I have been spoiled by the likes of Windows Live! Writer I think it is because other than offline creation and editing of posts it offers nothing that my blog's control panel offers already. While Blogger is not the most powerful of blogging platforms, the online post editor presents me with all the same options as MarsEdit and more, such as the insertion of Amazon Ad's (not that I use them). I would very much love to see Microsoft release Windows Live! Writer on the Mac, so please Baulmer et al, please! So I conclude at this point it time (although I shall continue to use the demo of MarsEdit for a few more posts yet) that MarsEdit offers nothing over Windows Live! Writer from Microsoft other than being a Apple Mac OS X native app that seems to integrate well with the operating system. Oh and one last note, one which is very important and might somewhat explain away my cynicism regarding MarsEdit - MarsEdit costs £23.99 in the App Store. If I am to pay for an app on the Mac that is not nearly as good as a FREE app on Windows then it needs to be a pretty special piece of kit.
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