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Posting from ecto

My first blog a few years ago was built using iBlog, a blog publishing tool for Mac OS X. I loved the desktop experience for composing new entries - offline authoring, easy editing, spell check, drag and drop photos, etc. For me, this was a more natural way to approach blogging than entering new posts into the browser interface. The problem was that it did its own HTML output, so using iBlog with a popular blogging package such as WordPress, wasn’t possible.

I decided to go check out ecto today, after hearing several people recommend it. This is my first post from ecto, and so far, I am pleased with the experience. I was able to drag the image (the ecto logo) from my web browser into the post and modify the layout settings. The hyperlinks in this post were created by selecting the text and adding the associated URL for the link.

There is much more to explore in ecto, but at the cost of $17.95 and available for both Mac OS X and Windows, it looks like a winner. Go check it out.

If you like ecto, you might like another product from Adriaan—endo. Endo is an RSS reader with a lot in common with ecto. I’ve briefly evaluated RSS reading in Firefox, Thunderbird, and NetNewsWire, but think I’ve finally found a client to help me attempt to manage information overload from the blogosphere

Thank you for the recommendation. I’ll check it out.