New MarsEdit 2.0
I like to keep up to date on the software that I use on a daily basis, and with my move to HostMonster for hosting and WordPress for my journal (blog), I have been using MarsEdit a lot lately. So I was very interested in the word I'd been hearing about version 2.0. A completely redesigned interface, new features, more media choices... all made it sound like a must have update. So when I found that it was out yesterday, I had to check it out and upgrade.
What I found almost made me laugh. I had originally written my journal on static HTML pages. Then I moved to a PostgreSQL-driven database journal on my Sun box with a web-based PHP front-end. When I got my first iBook I took the time to make an XML-RPC driven interface to the Journal on the Solaris back-end and a Mac OS X client on the front-end. It allowed me to do a lot of the things that MarsEdit can now do, but it was a lot more unrefined and lacked all the polish that MarsEdit has. What was funny was that with the move to MarsEdit 2.0, the main window looks exactly like my iJournal app. I had to giggle. I may have been onto something after all.
I'm glad to have moved to WordPress, HostMonster, and MarsEdit, but it's funny to see that I wasn't all that far off on what made a good journaling (blogging) application, after all.