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extensive help documentation accessible from within ecto.

embedded debug console to troubleshoot server connections.

insert details of the currently playing iTunes song in your entry.

send notifications by email (with Address Book support).

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create poster movies or create thumbnails from movie frames.convert, scale images and create thumbnails.full-featured HTML-rendered preview of entries using Safari's WebKit.easily change the posting date of entries.support of all available remote control options of MovableType API (posting entries with continuation, summary, keywords, multiple categories, trackback, text-formatting, comment options).quick access menu with HTML tag templates and keyboard shortcuts (fully customizable).a Rich Text and an HTML editor with spellcheck and search/replace.intuitive interface for creating and editing weblog entries.

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full local control of recently posted entries and drafts (with search function).support for multiple weblogs and servers (with easy-to-use Account Manager).

ecto is designed to make blogging much more easier and yet give the users as much power as possible to manage their weblogs.

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The advantage over using your weblog's control panel is that you can compose entries offline and use the extra features ecto offers, such as spellcheck, creating links, attachments, amazon support, Flickr integration via 1001 and much more. With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log.

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For me, at least, it just isn’t superior enough.Ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for Mac OS X, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, WordPress, and more. But it doesn’t seem to matter-despite its clear superiority, I don’t miss NNW and won’t be going back to it. Now, Bloglines, being a web application, just can’t have the slick user interface of a native Mac (or MS Windows or X Windows) program. So I stopped using it at the beginning of the week and went back to Bloglines. But the acid test is whether I would miss it if I didn’t have it. After using NNW for a few weeks as my only aggregator, I find it not surprising that I’ve never read a bad review of it. This is a very well-thought-out piece of software, with keyboard shortcuts that are just right (very important when I’m working on my iBook, as I hate the trackpad) and a smooth overall user experience. (I’ll post the tag-generating stuff right after I’m done with this.) I’ve since written a couple of TextMate snippets that allow me to stick the tag stuff into my posts with little hassle, and the posts get indexed just fine. Ecto-written posts, on the other hand, were always indexed under the appropriate tags. The HTML it produced always had the tags laid out the right way, but my posts never showed up on the Technorati pages for those tags. I had been unable to get Technorati to recognize my posts using the Movable Type TechnoratiTags plugin, which is supposed to set up tags for each of a post’s MT keywords. In a nutshell: I tried it, found that it didn’t fit in with my text-files-only-please workflow, but then went back to it because of its support for Technorati tags. I mentioned my ecto tryout here, here, and here. But there are a few left-over items from previous posts that I should finish up.įirst, the blogging support tool ecto. It’s hard to get back into the swing of things when you’ve been off on vacation. Next post Previous post Final words on ecto and NetNewsWire

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