MarsEdit

Let’s say that you just started a new blog using Wordpress.

[If you really must, you can substitute Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal pMachine, Drupal, and several others for Wordpress. But you do this at your own risk. I've used all of the above and others, but iRecommend Wordpress only.]

Let’s also say that you use a Mac.

Let’s say furthermore that you’re doing your blog writing in Microsoft Word and then pasting it into your blog’s post page online.

Blogger, we have a problem here.

If you blog and use a Mac, then you should cut Word out of your bloglife. Instead, you should download, buy, and use MarsEdit.

What is MarsEdit? It is a blogging application that runs on your Mac. Like Microsoft Word, you type words into it, but unlike Microsoft Word, your words are formatted for your blog, not for paper. When you’re ready for the world to read your writing, MarsEdit posts them to your blog for you, perfectly formatted. It also keeps track of your posts and lets you save drafts, edit published and unpublished posts, add photos effortlessly, include hyperlinks easily, put your stuff in categories with a single click, see a preview while you’re writing, and so on. It’s a word processor for Wordpress; an immovable force for Movable Type.I do all my blogging with MarsEdit and have for years. iRecommend it. Highly.

Incidentally, my friend Dr. McCabe inspired this post as he fits most of the if/then conditions above. Go check out his new site: http://oldtestamentstudies.org. The blog section of his site is here.

And, speaking of Macs, take a look at this photo and this one.)Friends, these photos fill my heart with childlike joy.