Testing MarsEdit
Category: Apple/Mac OS... Navel Gazing... Tech...
Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 at 10:13 PM [GMT-6]

I'm testing a new (to me) weblog editor called "MarsEdit." It's made by Ranchero Software, the same joint that puts out NetNewsWire , an excellent standalone newsfeed reader.

I don't know that I need a blog editor, but MT isn't always the most user friendly tool for creating posts. And so far, I've been impressed with some of MarsEdit's features, like quick insertion of HTML tags and the ability to create custom tags...and I definitely like the built-in spellchecker (although it's a mystery why the dictionary doesn't recognize "blog"!).

If this post shows up in normal fashion, then I've mastered the basics.

Now, all I need is software that will (1) find interesting topics and (2) automatically write about them in an interesting fashion. Is that too much to ask?

(OK, I just noticed one thing I don't like, and that's the apparent requirement that paragraph breaks must be enclosed by paragraph tags. MT allows the option of a hard return to be treated as a paragraph break, which is much handier. Surely I'm just overlooking this option in MarsEdit...