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Once installed, you might never visit the Radio Desktop site again!&lt;/em&gt;"/>		<outline text="&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; MarsEdit and NetNewsWire were &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsgator.com/NetNewsWire.aspx&quot;&gt;acquired by NewsGator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;"/>		<outline text="There are multiple ways to create and edit posts, or weblog entries, to your &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/&quot;&gt;Radio&lt;/a&gt; weblog. My preference is &lt;a href=&quot;http://ranchero.com/marsedit/&quot;&gt;MarsEdit&lt;/a&gt; by Ranchero Software. Why MarsEdit instead of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5335/&quot;&gt;Radio Desktop home page&lt;/a&gt;? Or David Brown's &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100039/mailEditDocs.html&quot;&gt;mailEdit tool&lt;/a&gt;? Or Radio's own built-in &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=2.9&quot;&gt;Mail-to-Weblog&lt;/a&gt; preference? How about Daniel Berlinger's effort, &lt;a href=&quot;http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/faq&quot;&gt;Archipelago&lt;/a&gt;? Or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.socialdynamx.net/download&quot;&gt;FM Radio&lt;/a&gt;? Well, I've tried most of these solutions and MarsEdit is my favorite."/>		<outline text="Here's why">			<outline text="Simple, intuitive setup."/>			<outline text="Adding HTML to your posts is easy."/>			<outline text="Adding and re-using previously uploaded images to your posts is a snap."/>			<outline text="There is a Preview window so I can see exactly what my post will look like."/>			<outline text="It's not a browser interface. It's a full fledged application."/>			<outline text="I can post from a web browser."/>			<outline text="MarsEdit offers spell checking."/>			<outline text="I can save posts as a draft for later editing."/>			<outline text="Fully supports Radio's categories feature."/>			<outline text="It's fairly inexpensive."/>			<outline text="Great support."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Released as a public beta on September 21, 2004, MarsEdit is an easy to use weblog editing application for Mac OS X. After configuring it with some basic preferences so it can &quot;talk&quot; to your installation of Radio, you can easily create new posts for your Radio weblog. It's not a WYSIWYG environment like Dreamweaver but it is easy to add HTML to your posts by simply clicking and pointing."/>		<outline text="For the purposes of this tutorial, I'll assume that you have Radio up and running already and that you know how to post a weblog entry to your weblog."/>		<outline text="Download and install MarsEdit">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://ranchero.com/marsedit/&quot;&gt;Download MarsEdit&lt;/a&gt; (Mac OS X only. At the time of this writing, MarsEdit version 1.0b3 was available)"/>			<outline text="Install MarsEdit by dragging it from the installer disc image to your Applications folder."/>			<outline text="Start MarsEdit."/>			<outline text="The first time you start MarsEdit,  it will ask you some questions about your Radio weblog. For example, my personal weblog, iceplant radio, is located at http://www.iceplant.org/. Enter your Radio weblog name and URL and click OK."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 1. Weblog Name and URL.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz001.jpg"/>			<outline text="When I attempted this, MarsEdit couldn't quite figure out the correct settings. It gave me the option to Edit Settings so I did."/>			<outline text="On the Settings window, make your settings look similar to the following screen shots."/>			<outline text="In the System tab, choose Radio as the Software setting. Enter http://127.0.0.1:5335/RPC2 as the RPC URL. And finally, enter 'home' as the Blog ID."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 2. Weblog Configuration System Tab.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz003.jpg"/>			<outline text="The Defaults tab should have the Post to home page selection checked."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 3. Weblog Configuration Defaults Tab.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz005.jpg"/>			<outline text="I would recommend selecting all three choices in the pings section near the bottom of the Posting tab."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 4. Weblog Configuration Posting Tab.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz004.jpg"/>			<outline text="Click OK."/>			<outline text="Your weblog is added to the Weblogs drawer, which should already be open. If it is not open, click on Weblogs in the Toolbar. If you ever want to edit the settings we just configured for your Radio weblog, click on your weblog name, and then click on the Edit button at the bottom of the drawer."/>			<outline text="Finally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=4.8&quot;&gt;make sure the Blogger API is turned on in Radio&lt;/a&gt; or else it won't work."/>			<outline text="Now, let's test it out by creating a post."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Create a new post">			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz007.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;)%&gt;Click on New Post in the Toolbar. Enter a Title, a URL if appropriate, and some text in the form area below. You'll notice that I used paragraph tags to wrap my entry in HTML. Depending on your Radio theme, you may be able to leave these paragraph tags out to make things even easier."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 5. A new post.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz008.jpg"/>			<outline text="Once you've entered your weblog text, click on Post in the Toolbar to save the post to your Radio weblog."/>			<outline text="Now you'll need to enter your Username and Password."/>			<outline text="Before you click OK, make sure that Radio is running on your computer and is online. I opt to store the password in my keychain since I'm the only one who uses this computer and I don't want to have to enter my login information every time I post an entry to my blog."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 6. Enter your username and password.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz009.jpg"/>			<outline text="MarsEdit will pass the weblog post off to Radio and Radio will then add it to your weblog home page."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 7. Your weblog entry.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/SafariScreenSnapz001.jpg"/>			<outline text="If all goes well, you have just posted an entry to your weblog and it was upstreamed to your site. Now, let's edit that post and learn how MarsEdit handles links to other sites."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Edit an existing post">			<outline text="Click on your weblog name in the Weblogs drawer. Then click Refresh in the Toolbar. MarsEdit will fetch the recent posts to your weblog. You can change the number of posts MarsEdit retrieves from the configuration window we setup earlier. The default is 10."/>			<outline text="&lt;em&gt;Diagram 8. A list of your posts.&lt;/em&gt;" type="link" url="http://www.becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz010.jpg"/>			<outline text="You should see the entry you just posted at the top of the list. Double click on the title of the post to edit the entry."/>			<outline text="I want to make the words MarsEdit and Radio UserLand link to their respective web sites. If you know HTML, feel free to enter the code necessary. Or, you can do it this way."/>			<outline text="Double click on the word MarsEdit to highlight it. Then choose Add Link from the HTML drop down menu."/>			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://becomethemedia.org/radio/images/meimages/MarsEditScreenSnapz011.jpg&quot; align=&quot;&quot;)%&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;"/>			<outline text="Type http://ranchero.com/marsedit/ and click OK. You'll notice the word MarsEdit is now wrapped in the proper HTML code to make it a link. Do the same thing for the words Radio UserLand. When you are finished, click Post in the Toolbar to upstream your changes."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Upload Images and Files">			<outline text="In a future tutorial, I will cover image and file uploading. As with weblog posting, there are multiple ways in which you might add images and files to your Radio weblog but they are not as simple to use as one would hope. MarsEdit really shines in this area by making it easy to upload images and  files to your site."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Support">			<outline text="The MarsEdit Help book, available under the Help menu in MarsEdit is not an after thought fortunately. Explore it first when you need help."/>			<outline text="A support mailing list for MarsEdit has been set up. To subscribe, send email to marsedit-subscribe@notabug.com. To post to the list, send email to marsedit@notabug.com."/>			<outline text="The &lt;a href=&quot;http://inessential.com/?comments=1&amp;postid=2904&quot;&gt;MarsEdit FAQ&lt;/a&gt; might help as well."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Price">			<outline text="MarsEdit costs $24.95 (USD) - Single-User License"/>			<outline text="For two or more users, $19.95 per user - Multi-User Site License"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Requirements">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/&quot;&gt;Radio UserLand&lt;/a&gt; (any platform)"/>			<outline text="MarsEdit requires &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/&quot;&gt;Mac OS X&lt;/a&gt; 10.3 or greater"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Discuss this page">			<outline text="I started a thread on this page on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$33997?mode=topic&amp;y=2004&amp;m=9&amp;d=23&quot;&gt;Radio UserLand Discussion Forum&lt;/a&gt;."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Comment on this page">			<outline text=" &lt;%radio.macros.commentOnThisPage (&quot;Sound off: &lt;%commentCount%\&gt;&quot;)%&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Creative Commons License">			<outline text="This article is licensed under a &lt;a rel=&quot;license&quot; href=&quot;@license_path@&quot;&gt;Creative Commons License&lt;/a&gt;."/>			<outline text="&lt;a rel=&quot;license&quot; href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Creative Commons License&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"/>			<outline text="&lt;!-- /Creative Commons License --&gt;"/>			<outline text="&lt;!-- &lt;rdf:RDF xmlns=&quot;http://web.resource.org/cc/&quot;"/>			<outline text="xmlns:dc=&quot;http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/&quot;"/>			<outline text="xmlns:rdf=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#&quot;&gt;"/>			<outline text="&lt;Work rdf:about=&quot;&quot;&gt;"/>			<outline text="&lt;dc:title&gt;Radio: The Missing Manual&lt;/dc:title&gt;"/>			<outline text="&lt;dc:description&gt;Radio UserLand is a weblog editor, RSS news aggregator, content management system, outliner and more. 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