Archive for January, 2008

MarsEdit 2.1

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

It is with great pleasure that I announce the immediate availability of MarsEdit 2.1, a significant update to Red Sweater’s Eddy-Award winning desktop blog editing application.

Download MarsEdit 2.1 From The MarsEdit Home Page

I’ve updated the high-level “what’s new” page, but of course I also love the sound of my own keyboard, so I thought I’d [...]

Things Are Happening

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I’ve been so busy working on the next release of MarsEdit that I haven’t had a lot of time to do much else, aside from my normal second job as head of customer support!

But I’ve been seeing a lot of exciting things happening, and I want to help spread the word, along with my modest [...]

Designing For The First Launch

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Brent Simmons writes about designing the first-launch experience for NetNewsWire 3.1. I find his reasoning especially interesting because MarsEdit also has a strong incentive to provide users with a smooth first-launch experience.

One of the points that resonates most for me is Brent’s point about friction:

Present as little friction as possible—don’t overwhelm the new user so [...]

NSURLConnection Crashing Epidemic

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I’m proud to say that all of my apps are pretty solid. They rarely crash. At least, I assume they rarely crash, because I very rarely receive crash reports from users. When I do, it’s usually from beta testers before the application has been shared with the general public.

But after Apple released 10.4.11, I started [...]