Comments on: This is kinda cool

By: karan

karan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:31:46 +0000

I’m not taking away from the fact that it’s a good (great?) product, it’s just that it’s Windows Live Writer, so it’s not like you could expect it to be on anything but Windows :) Still, shows some good things are still coming out of Redmond.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:28:10 +0000

Jen Jen Jen, what can I say? I guess I'm just a tease (and Karan is a buzzkill).

For the Mac, I highly recommend MarsEdit. It doesn't have the super cool feature of automatically downloading your styles but it does let you write your own template. That means if you're geeky or you have a geeky friend, you can create a template in your own style and preview a post as it would appear for reals.

Added bonus is that you can edit your last 10 posts with MarsEdit.

You don't get WYSIWYG editing either, but if you install a Wordpress plugin like Markdown then it's a pretty good compromise.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:15:09 +0000

So you get me all hot and bothered with this and then karan says it’s only for windows? Nice, Jack.

By: karan

karan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:37:43 +0000

It’s also only on Windows you insensitive clod!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:48:01 +0000

I use it almost exclusively. Being a Windows app, it is kind of a memory hog, but it’s worth it to be able to see how exactly how your entry will look as you’re writing it. There’s some half-decent plugins for it as well.