Blogging with MarsEdit 2
I’ve been using MarsEdit for a couple of months now through trial and eventual purchase and its my editor of choice for blogging, and so it should be as its a cracking little application. It’s all but perfect… but. That but is a real biggie for me and almost stopped me buying it however a glimmer of light from the developer suggested I might see my beloved feature in a future update. I’m getting ahead of myself now and I’ve not told you what my problem is.
MarsEdit has superb Flickr integration letting you pick from your photostream and select the size of thumb you want, but this can’t be done when uploading media from your computer. It’s a glaring omission as its something that can be done with ease from the WordPress web interface publishing page. The problem with using the web is that Safari doesn’t like the WordPress editor and strips out carriage returns when publishing. I know I could use Firefox but I’d got so used to MarsEdit on the trial, starting Firefox was a second step beyond having to open an url in Safari to blog and ultimately an inconvenience.
All that said, its only an issue for me if the source image is bigger than 400px (due to my current theme) and the image isn’t on Flickr (which I prefer to use for my photos rather than any other graphic flotsam and jetsam). What prompted me to blog now is that there has been an incremental update to MarsEdit and I had a fanciful hope to find a resizing/thum creation feature however it was not to be. Don’t let this stop you buying MarsEdit as I’ve already said its superb and the more people badgering the developer for better graphic handling the better.
Ae you still here? Go and buy it now!
More people badgering me is better? Wait a minute! Haha!
On a more serious note I’m glad you decided that the app was good enough otherwise to warrant your continued use. The problem with an app like MarsEdit is it’s aimed at such a wide audience (all bloggers!) that it’s easy to find “glaring” omissions if you look for them. But I definitely do see simple image manipulation as falling into line sooner than some of the others.
I wouldn’t expect it in the *extremely* near future, though. Probably at least a couple months at the soonest.