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MarsEdit’s blog selector and post manager is one of the things that makes the application such a joy to use. Here’s an AppleScript to bypass it altogether.

MarsEdit’s marquee Post Preview feature makes the blogging workhorse a joy to use. Here’s how to turn it off.

Dropbox is a service/application that lets you sync files, folders or whatever with an online server and, by extension, between your Macs. Here are a few things that I keep synced between my two Macs with the help of Dropbox.

Add a simple feature to TextEdit via AppleScript and Growl.

TUAW has a neat little write up on using TextEdit plus BackDrop to make a minimalist, distraction free writing environment. I quite like the idea, so I wrote up an AppleScript to automate the process.

I download and try lots of apps from the App Store. When I like one enough that I want to broadcast my find to the world, my first stop is Twitter. Here is the fastest way I know of to get App Store links onto the clipboard in a Twitter ready format.

While we wait for a power user release of Twitterrific, here are a few of my own tricks and scripts that make the little app more usable for me.

CompFight is the best way to quickly find Creative Commons images for use on your blog. Use this script to search CompFight right from MarsEdit.

I often use the Instant Alpha tool in Preview to quickly extract transparent images for use on MacMembrane. Here is a quick way to make sure your images look as good on your blog as they do in Preview.

Want MarsEdit to make a Mail.app like sound when it sends your blog post up to the web? No problem. Just use Growl.