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DESCRIPTION
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.
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!
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.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later.
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| ecto User Reviews (61 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jan 23 2010 |
RELAXEDGUY I agree with LEOOFBORG. Have voiced our concerns for a year, frustrated about lack of response from developers. This is what happens when almost-great software is acquired and left to die. I wish there was Bring more competition out there, but unfortunately nothing beats Ecto, which is even more frustrating.
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 | Jan 22 2010 |
LEOOFBORG Ecto is a great blogging app on par with everything else out there, like MarsEdit, and I've used it for years and will continue to do so. It's a 4-5 star app with two BIG minuses. Two REALLY BIG minuses at this point: 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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| Aug 9 2009 |
RKMS Goodbye ecto, hello myblogedit!
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| May 28 2009 |
HUKAPAN http://illuminex.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=786&p=4427#p4427 http://illuminex.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1241 No words. Goodbye Ecto, wellcome MarsEdit.
(Version 3.0) | |
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| May 25 2009 |
ADRIAN Thanks for the new update.
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| Jan 27 2009 |
MACMEND.COM I too cannot connect to my wordpress blogs, which is very disappointing
(Version 3.0b36) | |
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 | Feb 21 2009 |
GARY W. LONGSINE ecto 3 works fine with WordPress, there are many happy WordPress+ecto users. Occasionally a 3rd party blog plugin will cause an issue. If you have such plugins, disable them all, configure ecto, then re-enable them one at a time to find the culprit.
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| Feb 23 2009 |
MACMEND.COM What I found was that everything went back to working when I lowered the amount of posts ecto was asked to download. Whilst marsedit seemed to have no problem, ecto seemed to put a strain on the server if asking for more than about 50 posts.
(Version 3.0) | |
| Feb 23 2009 |
GARY W. LONGSINE Thanks for the follow-up. Could you please contact me at support@ { illumineX daht com }? I'd like to dig into this a little deeper. (If both applications are using the same remote editing API, the load they place on the server, given the same number of posts being fetched, should be about the same. ) Thanks. /gary
(Version 3.0) | |
| Apr 11 2008 |
VINOD I have no issues with Wordpress Blogs with the 3.0b44. Bought it. Very feature rich and stable.
(Version 3.0b36) | |
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| Dec 25 2007 |
GLOBETROTTERDK I get the same message when trying to use ecto on WordPress. I guess we will have to wait until ecto3 is out. It is in beta at this time.
(Version 2.4.2) | |
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 | Jun 23 2007 |
POLITICAL_HACK I'm trying to log into my blogger account and I always get this message when I start up: A list of blogs could not be retrieved! Please verify the account you created. I've tried using the alternative access point provided in the ecto forums, and resetting my password, but no luck!
(Version 2.4.2) | |
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| May 7 2007 |
GRYPHONENT Used to be the best... but has become totally unstable and unusable under WordPress. Posts disappear, and accounts show only a fraction of a blog's entries online. I've been waiting for an update to address these serious issues... but unfortunately ecto 3 is nowhere in sight.
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| Nov 11 2008 |
ALJUK Not so. I've been using 2.4.2 with WP for about 18 months and it rocks. Never had even a hint of an issue.
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