As we use only Mac here at DOXA I have, thankfully, been able to leave my PC alone for a while. Yesterday, I was editing blog posts and our hosting went down leaving me only with a text version of the post I had been working on.

This got me thinking about offline blog editors. Some nice folk gave me some great suggestions.

I have ScribeFire, a Firefox extension installed and it works great, but it is dependent on my browser being open and I don’t like being chained to Firefox. I would rather have something standalone so I went searching and saw a lot of chatter about MarsEdit.

What a beautifully intuitive interface for offline blog posting. The fact that it has a live preview window is nice as well. I can see my ramblings appear on my second monitor as I type.

I like that I can save a draft of my post with out the worry about a sketchy hosting service losing all of my hard work in the ether. I’ll keep tinkering with this until the 30 day trial is up, but am fairly sure I’ll pay the $29.95 USD to keep using it.

That said, there are a couple of others I want to try, ecto for example, before I make a final decision.