tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59413252008-04-23T19:51:47.778ZNMnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941325.post-83934319215959978242007-11-26T16:54:00.001Z2007-11-26T16:54:40.226Z<a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/" title="Easy weblog editing."><img src="http://www.red-sweater.com/images/MarsEditBadge.gif" height="31" width="88" alt="MarsEdit: Powerful Blog Authoring Made Simple." border="0" align="right" hspace="8" /></a> I'm still searching for a good desktop tool to manage my blogs and today I'm trying <a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/">MarsEdit</a>. I've resisted MarsEdit because it's not cross-platform (it's Mac only) and it costs $30. In a perfect world, I'd use only cross-platform <a href="http://deflexion.com/2007/06/oss-foss-and-floss">FLOSS</a> software. I want cross-platform because it makes it easier for me to switch platforms and it also makes it easier for me to support people who are not using one of the platforms I use. I want FLOSS because I think that's the way software in general is moving and I think it's more likely that a FLOSS app will be around in a few years. Also, it helps that FLOSS apps are usually gratis! But, I'm not very happy with <a href="http://deflexion.com/2006/09/blogging-with-bleezer">Bleezer</a>, which is cross-platform, or <a href="http://deflexion.com/2007/10/trying-flock-social-web-browser">Flock</a>, which is cross-platform and FLOSS, so I'm trying out this single-platform non-FLOSS app.<br /><br />So far I like it. I especially like that: <ul><li>I can make the MarsEdit post editor window font whatever size I want; this is <a title="thread about 'font size in Blog Post window?' in the Flockstars list" href="https://lists.flock.com/pipermail/flockstars/2007-November/002476.html">not the case in Flock</a>.</li> <li>I can launch an alternate editor, such as vim, from the MarsEdit post editor.</li> <li>Assigning labels to a post is simple -- just check them off in the Options/Categories sidebar.</li></ul> <br /><br />NMnoreply@blogger.com