Cockeyed Optimist

I wrote this post on my iMac at home, not directly on Cockeyed Optimist through a browser, but using a package called MarsEdit (Mac only, guys!). I read about this in the WordPress 2 Visual QuickStart Guide, by Langer and Jordan, and thought it was worth a look.

You can use it to write a new post and send it to your blog, as I did for this one, or you can edit any of your existing posts. I’m not sure you can access other pages in your blog - I’m still playing with it at the moment. I know that you can set your category, and specify options about comments and trackback.

After I posted it, I spotted an error, so I edited it as an existing post in MarsEdit and sent it up again. It even preserves line breaks after editing, unlike the built-in editor, which tends to forget them (I’m sure there is a work-around for this - let me know, you seasoned bloggers).

MarsEdit has a Preview feature, so you can fix up stuff before you post.

The version I’m using is MarsEdit for Mac OS X, from www.ranchero.com; there is a 30-day trial, and after that, if you want to carry on with it, it costs $24.95 from Red Sweater Software (to me, it was $29.89 Australian).

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