Buried Blog-specific Preferences in MarsEdit

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

5 Things in My Dropbox

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.

Search CompFight From MarsEdit with AppleScript

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.

MarsEdit Breaks its Silence with ‘Sent to Weblog’ Sound

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

10 Unbeatable Shareware Apps for your Mac

Everyone loves freeware! But developers work hard on their creations, and giving everything away for free doesn’t pay the bills. Here are ten of my favorite shareware applications that I was more than happy to shell out a bit of cash for.

2 AppleScripts to Simplify Your MarsEdit Workflow

The biggest objection that one might raise about MarsEdit is its conspicuous lack of a WYSIWYG editor. When composing long and link heavy posts in MarsEdit, text-markup tags can begin to clutter your view and make it difficult to find your place when editing. Here are two AppleScripts to provide a solution to the problem.

Convert Your Mac Into a Blogger’s Dream Machine

My blogging career started almost simultaneously with the purchase of my first Mac a year and a half ago and it’s been a great experience so far. Below are the applications that I use daily to administer my personal blogging empire.

MarsEdit – Premier Desktop Blogging Client for the Mac

For me, MarsEdit is far and away the best blogging client for the Mac. From its easy setup to its Flickr integration, its worthy html handling to its post preview window, MarsEdit has become the premier tool in my blogging armory.

6 Reasons to Switch to a Desktop Blogging Client

A desktop blogging client allows you to write and publish blog posts without accessing your blog’s browser-based post editor. The benefits of using such an application, however, may not be immediately apparent to a lot of bloggers. WordPress’s posting window offers convenient tools to add links, apply formatting to text, upload and align images and [...]