If I am to pay for an app on the Mac that is not nearly as good as a FREE app on Windows then it needs to be a pretty special piece of kit. Oh and one last note, one which is very important and might somewhat explain away my cynicism regarding MarsEdit - MarsEdit costs £23.99 in the App Store. I would very much love to see Microsoft release Windows Live! Writer on the Mac, so please Baulmer et al, please! So I conclude at this point it time (although I shall continue to use the demo of MarsEdit for a few more posts yet) that MarsEdit offers nothing over Windows Live! Writer from Microsoft other than being a Apple Mac OS X native app that seems to integrate well with the operating system. While Blogger is not the most powerful of blogging platforms, the online post editor presents me with all the same options as MarsEdit and more, such as the insertion of Amazon Ad's (not that I use them). Over all I am less than impressed with MarsEdit and I don't think it is because I have been spoiled by the likes of Windows Live! Writer I think it is because other than offline creation and editing of posts it offers nothing that my blog's control panel offers already. The image shown here (to the left) of my son could be made so much more interesting with WLW but MarsEdit seems to think either it is fine as it is, or if I want to edit the image in anyway then I am happy to do it in another program. I can not as yet find a means of adding a watermark, adjusting paddings, tilt's, reflections or any of the other fun stuff I am used to being able to do with images within Windows Live! Writer. Media options (or rather more specifically image options) are severely lacking. Inserting a image is a simple procedure select Media from the toolbar and navigate to the picture (or other file) of your choosing, make some choices regarding size, alignment, ALT Text etc and thats about it. I have not yet found a method to change from my current option (Rich Text) to HTML. after clicking on the New Post icon i was presented with the option to create the post in Rich Text or HTML. So setup was simple, and creating a new post is simple (just click on the New Post icon in the toolbar). "The setup was extremely easy and fast, once I entered the URL to my blog and my account details, I was in. Setting MarsEdit up for use with DieselTekk was simple though, as Luke explains in his article. With MarsEdit I am typing black text onto a white background and that is it. When creating a post in WLW I can see as I type exactly how the finished article will look. Maybe this is because I am so very used to Microsoft's product and my view is tainted? It is a boring application to look at and nothing seems 'obvious'. I have to be honest, MarsEdit does not come close to Windows Live! Writer in stakes of appearance or functionality. Now, nearly a year on I am much more conversant with the delights of Apple's OS X and after reading Luke188's brief review of MarsEdit I have decided to give it another shot. I have briefly tried Red-Sweater's MarsEdit in the past and the results were not good I was new to OS X back then. However I use Mac OS X more and more these days and trying to find a good app/program for blogging on the Mac is not an easy task. Most people do not require paid for software, which is why when it comes to blogging I recommend all my customer's use Microsoft's very FREE Windows Live! Writer, which i have mentioned many times on this blog before and is generally accepted by most bloggers as the worlds best software for blogging. I am not keen on paying for software, in fact my company is founded on the belief that the best computing experience for the average user is based on the least expense possible.
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