Giving MarsEdit A Try

So I have never been one to blog from the desktop. Heck, I’ve never been one to blog from anything but the administration area that comes with the blog software I use. I came across a link to MarsEdit tonight and decided to give it a try. I threw in the settings for this blog, which runs on wordpress and rails tips, which runs on mephisto. The wordpress one, just worked. Simply put in the url and I was good to go. It took a wee bit of research to get mephisto rolling but nothing a few minutes of googling couldn’t solve.

At any rate, I don’t really have anything important to say, I just wanted to try out the software and see what I thought. For the sake of adding some value in this post, I’ll link to a few things I have found interesting the past while.

• ToDoist.com - Simple and fast task management. There are a few things I would improve but these guys nailed the bulk of it on the head.
• Google Chart API - Looks interesting. Haven’t played with it yet, but rest assured that I will.
• Mac OSX Leopard - Several have said that this was not worthy of a major release. I tend to think they haven’t really given Leopard an in depth look. I’m a week in and each day I find a new thing that I really like. I’ll probably collect a list and post an article here before too long. Oh, I’m also digging my iphone.
• Ack - Ack is a tool for programmers similar to grep but designed to search through big source code trees. It is quick and does nice search term highlighting all from the terminal.
• Explosm Comics - These are appalling and hilarious.
• Jake and Amir - Appalling and hilarious as well. My favorite is “The Burp.“

Anyway, that is all for now.

Update: MarsEdit is impressive. Everything worked, even editing to do this update.