Mars Edit 2.3 adds Tumblr support

MarsEdit 2.3, which was released on Tuesday now supports Tumblr, in addition to WordPress, Movable Type, LiveJournal and other blogging platforms. Daniel Jalkut, the developer of MarsEdit, announced that he was planning support for Tumblr back in December, after started working with Tumblr's Marco Arment on improving the Tumblr API.
After a brief beta period, official Tumblr support is finally here, and it is good. To my knowledge, MarsEdit is the only blog client, for Mac or Windows, that supports Tumblr. Sure, there are some great iPhone (and even a BlackBerry application), but there hasn't been any support for an actual desktop client.
Inevitably, some users will question why Tumblr needs client support at all. After all, isn't the whole point of Tumblr to be fast, easy and simple? Sure, but when composing longer entries or when you want to write drafts, an external client is still superior. There's nothing worse than having all of your hard work erased by a misbehaving web browser, or wanting to access a draft or an old post while on a plane or some other place without Internet access.
MarsEdit 2.3 supports text, photo, quote, link and chat post templates (though you can easily use HTML to embed video and audio in a regular text post). You can also easily add tags to a post. Image posting is extremely easy, just drag an image from the web, your own library or a folder into the image button at the top of the post.
If I had any real request, it would be that the "tweet this post" toggle be included as a MarsEdit option. Otherwise, my Tumblr needs have been addressed.
MarsEdit 2.3 is a free upgrade for existing users and news users can snag a copy for $29.95. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5.
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MarsEdit has long been one of my Mac apps and save my writings for TUAW and Download Squad, it's what I use for almost all of my online...
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Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't, it seems, reading as closely as I thought I was. Skimming makes for mistakes.
March 27 2009 at 9:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually, according to the site, the upgrade is $9.95.
March 27 2009 at 8:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's for users still using 1.0. Anyone who has purchased in the last 18 months gets free upgrades.
March 27 2009 at 9:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've switched from marsedit to ScribeFire, a simple free firefox plugin that does WISYWYG post editing. I recommend it to you guys.
March 27 2009 at 4:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow sad is it that Live Writer in a VM continues to be the easiest WYSIWYG blogging solution? A year and a half since my switch back to Mac and I have yet to find an editor that will take a screencap from the clipboard, paste it in, and deal with the image issues.
Come on, SURELY someone on the Mac side can do better than Microsoft?
Looks like you've got a typo in there â I wouldn't mention it, except it's in "Daniel Jalkut", and he probably deserves his real name for making such excellent software. ;)
March 26 2009 at 6:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRight you are! Changed!
(and I'm not sure how that happened, l and i aren't that close together...)
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