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MarsEdit

October 20th, 2008 Comments off

I was looking today to see if there were any desktop tools that would allow me to post to my blog. A search on Google turned up MarsEdit.

Step 1 Setup:
Setup was easy. I pointed it at my website. MarsEdit figured out that I was using WordPress on the back end, prompted me for my username and password and then it downloaded all my publicly posted entries.

Step 2 Adding an Entry:
This was easy too. Select “New Post” from the toolbar. Select a category, add a new category, start typing. MarsEdit has an auto preview window that allows you to see what your entry is going to look like as you type it. If you know HTML you can add HTML tags around your text to format it.

Step 3 Posting an Entery:
When you are done click on the “Send to Weblog” button to finish up.


Evaluation Update
MarsEdit comes with a 30 day evaluation license. Its worked so well for me over the past 7 days, I’ve decided to take the plunge. The $30 price point is very reasonable and product support is excellent.

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