MarsEdit

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MarsEdit
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Developer(s)
Stable release
4.4.13 / May 6, 2021
Operating systemMac OS X
TypeBlog client
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.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.

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.[citation needed]

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 of .[1] In February 2007, MarsEdit was purchased by Red Sweater Software, and is developed by Red Sweater's owner, Daniel Jalkut.[citation needed]

  • 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.[2]
  • MarsEdit 3.0 was released in May 2010 and includes WYSIWYG editing, enhanced WordPress support, and image library integration.[3]
  • MarsEdit 4.0[4]
    • MarsEdit 4.5[5]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Brent Simmons. "Meet the new MarsEdit Programmer".
  2. ^ a b "MarsEdit 2 - Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac". redsweater.com.
  3. ^ "What's New In MarsEdit 3?". redsweater.com. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  4. ^ "MarsEdit 4 - What's New?". 2020-10-19. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  5. ^ "MarsEdit - What's New?". redsweater.com. Retrieved 2022-01-06.

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