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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. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log. With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). 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. ecto is designed to make blogging much more easier and
What's New
Version 3.0:
- convert, scale images and create thumbnails
- create poster movies or create thumbnails from movie frames
- save settings on a per-blog basis
- extensive help documentation accessible from within ecto
- support for multiple weblogs and servers (with easy-to-use Account Manager)
- embedded debug console to troubleshoot server connections
- full-featured HTML-rendered preview of entries using Safari's WebKit
- Many more enhancements.
Version 3.0:
- convert, scale images and create thumbnails
- create poster movies or create thumbnails from movie frames
- save settings on a per-blog basis
- extensive help documentation accessible from within ecto
- support for multiple weblogs and servers (with easy-to-use Account Manager)
- embedded debug console to troubleshoot server connections
- full-featured more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later.
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| Downloads:28,201 |
| Version Downloads:2,887 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Demo |
| Date:18 Feb 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $19.95 |
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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. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log. With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). 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. 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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Features:
- support for multiple weblogs and servers (with easy-to-use Account Manager)
- full local control of recently posted entries and drafts (with search function)
- intuitive interface for creating and editing weblog entries
- a Rich Text and an HTML editor with spellcheck and search/replace
- syntax-coloring in the HTML editor
- quick access menu with HTML tag templates and keyboard shortcuts (fully customizable)
- support of all available remote control options of MovableType API (posting entries with continuation, summary, keywords, multiple categories, trackback, text-formatting, comment options)
- advanced create-a-link dialog
- easily change the posting date of entries
- full-featured HTML-rendered preview of entries using Safari's WebKit
- powerful file and media upload, incl. iPhoto import, via attachments
- convert, scale images and create thumbnails
- create poster movies or create thumbnails from movie frames
- save settings on a per-blog basis
- send notifications by email (with Address Book support)
- insert details of the currently playing iTunes song in your entry
- embedded debug console to troubleshoot server connections
- extensive help documentation accessible from within ecto
- hate the metal and icons? Set the window texture via the Preferences window and change icons with the supplied switcher!
- works with NetNewsWire, PulpFiction, and Shrook
- localized in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, and Japanese
- support for del.icio.us, the social bookmarks manager
- Services menu items to blog selected text (with extra features for Safari)
- Flickr integration via 1001 app
- Amazon Tool
- and much much more!
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Anxious to put this new ecto version to good use and know a lot of others are, too!
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This app was never fully updated for Snow Leopard, and now here we are with Lion about to be released. I gave up on this app back in late 2009... WAJ....
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I won’t recommend ecto anymore. Sad, but true.
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M Prewitt reviewed on 13 Aug 2010
The biggest problem I have with this software, and it's HUGE, is that it keeps deleting parts of my posts! UNBELIEVABLE, but true. I discovered it when I went back to my latest entry, and found the last half was missing. At first I thought it was human error ... maybe I had deleted part by mistake. Thankfully I had a backup, and I replaced it. Then, I noticed after I saved the post, that the last half was missing again in the preview window! In HTML code, the last half was just not there. I pasted it back, in HTML mode this time, with all the proper tags. It did it again. Sometimes it would delete a longer or shorter portion. Sometimes, if I didn't edit the file, and clicked on and off the entry, it would reappear ... only to be partially deleted when I opened to edit. Then I looked back through old entries, which happen to include important and personal blog entries, that many of them were partially missing. It was like the app had shot holes in my life story for the last several years. Believe me, I was not happy.
If you value your data, do not buy this version! You may never recover it. I am reporting on version 3.0.2.
I am currently switching over to MacJournal, which unfortunately it not as elegant in some ways, but seems much more polished and is better supported.
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I wish there was Bring more competition out there, but unfortunately nothing beats Ecto, which is even more frustrating.
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Leoofborg reviewed on 22 Jan 2010
1/ 3.0 hasn't been bugfixed in over a year. And there's a serious data loss bug that was reported pre-version three that was NEVER FIXED. See this forum entry: 'Draft Post Wiped (3.0b44)' at http://is.gd/6PSW6
I emailed them about this bug days ago and never heard back. And I can't get on the forums (below).
2/ Older Ecto users are not allowed on their forums to report issues, even tho' we're licensed users. And as others have said, all emails to support are ignored.
Ecto's a great app, getting long in tooth, but if Illuminex doesn't work on support and bugfixes, it's going to be 'formerly' a great app really quick. 4-5 stars for the app as it is now. -1 for not fixing a serious, documented bug and another -1 for unresponsive support.
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http://illuminex.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1241
No words. Goodbye Ecto, wellcome MarsEdit.
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I've tried using the alternative access point provided in the ecto forums, and resetting my password, but no luck!
Egustavo rated on 25 Jan 2011