A bright future expected for MarsEdit

For those who may not be familiar, MarsEdit is an easy to use Mac OS X app that is a front end to posting to your blog. I use it when posting to my WordPress blogs all the time (and yes, it supports many other systems too).

Well, ever since NewsGator bought out Ranchero Software, makers of NetNewsWire and MarsEdit there’s been a bit of an issue. Brent is busy working on NetNewsWire, MarsEdit doesn’t naturally fit in with the other NewsGator products, yet lots of people really like MarsEdit. For a little while Gus Mueller did some updates through Brent but as of today MarsEdit has a new home, Red Sweater Software.

Daniel Jalkut, the founder of Red Sweater Software, is himself an avid blogger. “MarsEdit has long been one of my favorite applications, so it’s a thrill to welcome it into the Red Sweater family of products,” he said. “I am both passionate and confident about steering MarsEdit into the future.”

“I’ve already sent a bunch of feature requests to Daniel,” said Brent Simmons, MarsEdit’s original developer. “I use the app every day, and love it, and I’m so glad that it has a bright future. I look forward to being a MarsEdit user, to seeing what cool stuff Daniel does.”

Congratulations to Daniel. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Posted on: February 22, 2007 – 3:57 pm

2 Comments

  1. Ann wrote:

    I can’t understand - for what reason does people use external editors? Internal can do all the things. Of course external is lighter, but who needs this?

  2. Mike Zornek wrote:

    @Ann: It’s a total style decision. For me I never like writing more than a paragraph in web browser’s text area. Too many times have I lost my text to a crash or accidental window close. By writing my posts in MarsEdit I can use Command-S to save my progress, customize my preview to render Markdown and so much more.

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