I started looking for a desktop blog client today—and lo and behold it’s the day that MarsEdit got acquired by Red Sweater Software.

I also checked out:

• MacJournal
• ecto

Between John Gruber and other mac luminaries saying they use ME for the vast majority of their posting, I thought what the hell, might as well give it a shot.

This is my first post, and so far so good. Textile worked on the post, I’m editing this one right now…

How about a photo? Hmmm. Not so fast here, bucko… When I try to upload a photo via ME, I get the error

Can’t upload file for Software Sports because this server reported an error: No uploads allowed for this site

According to this WP Ticket, this problem should be resolved. Maybe ME is using a deprecated API call?

Update, 2/23—turns out that photo support was remarkably simple: just had to enable file uploads in WP admin (Options -> Miscellaneous). I’m using a pretty stock version of WP and no path changes were necessary on either the WP or ME side.

Another option is to upload photos to Flickr then use flickit to find and paste the img location into your post. That’s how I did the photo to the left.