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Flock
People conditioned to regard their Web browser as their de facto “blogware” will likely warm to Flock fairly quickly. You might say that’s because Flock is a browser as well. Its foundation is the Mozilla platform. The joy in using Flock and all that it grants easy access to is that it’s built for the social web. You can network and share photos and cool web pages with little effort. And, yes, you can blog, all while navigating the web just as you ordinarily would.
MarsEdit
One of the most celebrated of publishing utilities for Mac OS X users, MarsEdit, now in version 2.2.2, is not a free package. Its cost is $29.95 after a free 30-day trial. But a common refrain heard by users is that the more often it is employed the more the price is so clearly justified.
Apart from dead simple uploads and a quickly-learned interface, MarsEdit sports features like compatibility with Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Vox, and more, a Flickr connection, and integration with more hardcore Mac-specific text editors like BBEdit and TextMate. In short, it’s a power tool.
ecto
Another multi-service editor of MarsEdit-like design, ecto puts considerable emphasis on getting you from A to B to Z as quickly as possible. It certainly holds its own by comparison with others on the market. Its list of supported blog services is extensive, to say the least. Presently in Version 3 form, ecto has been around for over 5 years, and costs $17.95 to own.
Blogo
Launched by Brainjuice, Blogo seems simply drawn and puts your typical blogware to shame. As with the other editors above, its support list for blogging services is long, allows you to quickly publish media, and can even manage to publish Twitter and Ping.fm messages in association with your blog feed - call it streamlined PR, if you will.
Finally, Blogo gives users the option to produce content distraction-free with an on-board full screen mode. That’s a nice little dollop of GTD whipped cream, for sure.
Tumblr Dashboard Widget
Here’s a super small and super lightweight Dashboard application tossed midstream into the mix. We think Tumblr Dashboard Widget is worth mentioning simply for the fact that Tumblr itself is a bare boned and ultra-minimalist invention. A widget of this size is a fine complement. Enough said.
Mac Journal
An appreciable application both for its adherence to the traditional idea of journaling as well as its implementation of color to make the editing environment that much more colorful, Mac Journal is something that, while quite costly at $34.95 for a license, runs with the best in the business. It may not carry the same fanboy cache as that held by MarsEdit and others, but it’s a strong delivery nonetheless.
Blog.Mac
Intended to be a generally fool-proof development, Blog.Mac is more or less the closest thing to something that would come out of Apple’s own software assembly room. It’s not heavy on the details. It’s personal blogging made simple.
The current release, Version 1.3 Beta 4, talks to Apple’s MobileMe web hosting service and offers better Mac OS X Leopard integration. It will set users back $29.99. The creators at Largemouth Software also offer a Blog.Mac template editor free of charge.
iWeb plus MobileMe
You could go with something independently-made like Blog.Mac, but if you prefer something actually from the halls of Infinite Loop, Apple presents its own website and webpage editor in the form of iWeb. It’s a very controlled setup, and comes with all Mac computers sold today (standalone iLife suite runs $79), and to make use of it in ways that takes advantage of the “Apple experience,” you’ll need to pony up $99 per year for MobileMe hosting (formerly “.Mac”) and photo gallery access and so forth.
RapidWeaver
Some people just want to blog in their own unique way, requiring a departure from many popular web services today. RapidWeaver lets users wield an editor’s stick in ways that no other application here is able. Of course, that can mean a concerted effort to continue a blog for a significant period of time within the environment provided by RapidWeaver and the folks at RealMac Software, but hey, if you want choices, you’ve got choices with this one. Nearly limitless options, really.
Fluid
Okay, so you’ve parsed the choices listed above, and you’re not quite sold on any of them. Perhaps you recognize more than ever your liking for the way your blog service of choice operates, but you’d rather have it resemble an application within your Dock or menu bar. Fluid lets you do just that. It behaves as a kind of super powerful webclip creator that allows you to access web applications without having to visit the URL in Firefox or Camino or whathaveyou. There’s a bit of a wow factor that goes with this download. - m4lomb, on 11/30/2008, -1/+3Very nice indeed. Too bad some little ***** feel like burring your comment.
- PabloMac, on 11/29/2008, -1/+3#11: Get good hosting.
- revenz, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2wheres "Windows Live Writer" for Mac? yeah i know it doesnt exist, but i want something just as good as that (its really good, nice copy and paste for code, and formats it with colour syntax highlighting etc), and its free. i want that for mac, and ill be happy. (must be free)
- eltardo, on 11/29/2008, -1/+3I've tried everything for blogging on a Mac and far and away, your best bet is to either use VMware (Or Parallels) or dual boot with boot camp into windows xp/vista and use Microsoft's Live Writer. Live Writer is far and away the best blogging software online today, period. Nothing touches it. If Live Writer was made for OS-X, I'd be 100% apple.
- eltardo, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1so what you're saying is you wrote this comment from your Mac?
- mrbecker, on 11/29/2008, -1/+2Good list. Practical. What the "Internet" needs more of. It also needs more "misuse" of quotations.
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -1/+1Good compilation of handy tools. Having blogged on all the major platforms, I know the weaknesses of each. But I'm not sold on the idea of yet another tool/utility/widget on my machine just to do things on my blog. Of course, YMMV.
- MoneyStriker, on 11/29/2008, -0/+0Nice list.
- johnny81, on 02/17/2009, -0/+0iWeb plus MobileMe is good
http://www.linkbuilderz.com/blog_commenting_servic ... - Vertabraille, on 11/29/2008, -2/+2I've been looking for something like this for a while, shame it's already down..
- purseonality, on 11/29/2008, -1/+1I miss Live Writer. It's like it was written by people who don't work for Microsoft. Best free application ever.
But, I'm committed to being MS-Free. - axelgrease, on 11/30/2008, -0/+0I sort of like the built in Wordpress interface better, even if there is a chance the post might not show up. That hasn't happened yet though.
- goodcompany, on 11/30/2008, -1/+1You lost me at "iWeb plus MobileMe"...
- forbetaorworse, on 11/30/2008, -0/+0Blogo is a killer app. I've been using it since the day it was released and it's amazing for twitter/blogging. I would definitely check that one out if you have a blog, ping.fm, twitter or whatever.
- eRenee, on 11/28/2008, -5/+4This is the most useful thing I've found on digg yet.
- DMXell, on 11/29/2008, -3/+194 Digg's, 1 comment and it's down!
- GaryChalmers, on 11/29/2008, -7/+2Blogging from your Mac = Instant douchebag
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