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March 20, 2006
Trying Ecto again
It has been awhile since I played with blog tools. I use w.bloggar on my laptop. I tried ecto once, but didn't like it any better than the free w.bloggar. Ecto is now a 21 day trial and costs $17.95 a copy, but has continued to receive good reviews, so I am trying it again, this time on my Mac Mini.
The thing looks like iTunes. Still getting used to the "mac thing". Bonus points on start-up for figuring out my mt.cgi location automagically and connecting to the server. I like the easy access to Amazon links. First cool feature: I went to a Safari window and found my old Ecto post link, copied it in the browser then came back to Ecto. In ecto, the edit menu has option to "create URL link with clipboard". Kabam there is the link in the post. Very cool. Would be nice if I could search for prior posts within ecto automagically to relink to, but that is a nit.
Still playing, haven't decided to buy, but so far so good. And it is on the MAC where it was designed for. That makes a huge difference.
Posted by Martin at March 20, 2006 7:08 PM
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Similar experience. I tried Ecto on Windows and was not impressed, switched the a Mac recently and tried it again, love it. I just bought a license and have been posting regularly with it.
One other feature that I really like is that I can edit existing posts and have the edits applied rather than creating new posts. Support for images is pretty good, but I still have to make some tweaks for it to work flawlessly. The editing interface is nice, and the ability to add custom tags is great.
Posted by: jeffn 
at March 27, 2006 9:08 AM
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