MarsEdit 2 - blog client that deserves attention

Before the transition to Mac OS X, Windows-back in by the user when he was, I used to write notes BlogJet and Windows Live Writer. Becoming a switcher, the first thing I uploaded Ecto, Which heard many flattering words. Ultimately, however, I did not like the program because of the interface

Then I began to look for an alternative and soon found "in the face» MarsEdit. The second version of this wonderful blog client came out recently. MarsEdit use Guy Kawasaki (Guy Kawasaki) and John Gruber (John Gruber). This fact pushed to get acquainted with the application.

The first thing to note - very simple and intuitive interface. There is no abundance of buttons, drop-down lists of commands that are often found and is almost never used in Windows-analogues.

One of my favorite features MarsEdit - this design macros. you can on the hot keys to insert fragments of HTML-text. I also liked that the right in the window, you can set the slug, used in the formation of links.

In MarsEdit is integration with Flickr, which allows easy enough to insert photos. If you are uploading images to the server, in the future they can be viewed in the program directory. But in general, work with images in the program is arranged not in the best way. The main drawback lies in the fact that MarsEdit can not create thumbnails of a given size for large images.

Kind words MarsEdit deserves a preview of the article. You can use different filters (Textile, Markdown, etc.), you can edit the template. The program supports AppleScripts, that allows you to add some additional features (for example, insert into the text of the song titles from iTunes, counting statistics in the text (characters, words in article).

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MarsEdit 2 I really liked, I use this program every day. And what a blog client like you?