![]() It provides visual feedback of something happening on your computer. MarsEdit also uses the flickr API to allow you to see the photos in your flickr account and easily add them to posts (such as all the thumbnails in this post). I tried using a similar program, Ecto, I believe it is called, but it just wasn't very intuitive like MarsEdit is. I can also set the stylesheet url of this website to get an accurate preview and work out formatting issues before I publish the post. This makes it easy to make text bold, add a link, or embed videos or mp3s. It also has the option of setting my own quicktags. There is also a bookmarklet so I can highlight the text on some website and have it formatted in a new post for me to comment about. Very few keystrokes are needed to get a new post started. Granted, there aren't very many times that I am using my computer and do not have internet access, but MarsEdit is really easy to use. It also requires that you be connected to the internet. The web interface of the WordPress system running this site is not very convenient for writing posts. ![]() The number of posts to this site has gone up quite a bit since I've started using MarsEdit. If you have a blog, this application makes life so much easier. Synergy also allows for an information box to be on screen for a user-specified amount of time (like forever in my case), allowing me to instantly see what song on what album by whom is playing. Synergy also has last.fm scrobbling capabilities, but it has not seemed to be very reliable for iPod scrobbling. The cmd-F1 keystroke has been used a good number of times recently as I've been listening to the SXSW 2008 songs. I have also set cmd-F5 to "5 stars" and cmd-F1 to "1 star." The star keystrokes let me instantly mark a song as a favorite or that it should be added to the playlist of songs to delete. I have set F11 to "play", F12 to "next", and F11 to "previous". While it resides in the menubar, you can access controls with user-defined keystrokes. It is an application that I cannot do without. I have used this app since 2002 and is one of the first I add when I get a new computer. iScrobbler gave a more accurate impression of audio that passed through my speakers, but ScrobblePod data reflects the songs worth listening to completion. Although this is technically more accurate to songs that have been listened to, I liked how iScrobbler would submit a track after ~30 seconds. The only problem with ScrobblePod is that you have to listen to the entire song before it gets submitted. Ben Gummer's recent development efforts for ScrobblePod have enabled me to drop iScrobbler complete and solely rely on ScrobblePod. For a while, I used both ScrobblePod and the more popular iScrobbler to get both iPod and iTunes tracks to be submitted. This application will submit media consumed with iTunes or your iPod to last.fm. I realize that only 25% of the visitors to this site use computers from Apple, but maybe these will help convince you to switch (not likely)! You can switch this under the Post menu in MarsEdit.There are some freeware/shareware applications that I use on my computer that have made things very convenient. Limited HTML is also allowed and won’t be escaped.īecause Micro.blog uses Markdown, we recommend keeping MarsEdit in “Plain Text Mode” instead of “Rich Text”. Posting from MarsEdit supports microblog posts (leave the title blank), full posts with a title, and uploading photos. This usually won’t be necessary if the client has already discovered the proper settings. If you need to manually configure a blogging client, choose the MetaWeblog API and point it to micro.blog/xmlrpc. This is where your published microblog lives, so MarsEdit will need to look there to automatically discover the XML-RPC endpoint. Start in MarsEdit by creating a new weblog. Click on Account to view or manage your app tokens. Your account comes with a default token for MarsEdit, but you can generate a new one whenever you want. To sign in with an app like MarsEdit, use your Micro.blog username and an “app token” for the password. ![]() Remember that there are no passwords on Micro.blog. ![]() This is a protocol from the early days of blogging that uses XML-RPC to communicate with a server. If you have a paid microblog on Micro.blog, you can use apps like MarsEdit that support the MetaWeblog API. ![]()
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