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November 01, 2004

If you blog on a mac this Ecto will change the way you post.

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After looking around the web all weekend for a better way to manage my blogs, I came across Ecto. I first thought it would be good for posting photos and little things like that, but from the moment I opened the app, I could tell it was made to do much more.

Getting Started:
When I first opened up the app, the set up assistant helped me get the app talking with my blog. This only took about 30 sec, a lot faster than I had thought. Once it made a connection to my blog's database, it displayed all the posts I had with all the categories.

Time to do a Test:
It works straight out of the box? No... !!! So I thought I would do a test. Let's edit one of the entries. I opened one up by clicking on it and added "...." to the last line of my first entry and clicked "post".

It gave me a little popup window telling me it was uploading.

After I finished, I went to the site and looked to see if it worked and it did. Now I was impressed. (It does not take much to impress me) .

Photo Test:
It can't make everything about blogging that simple, can it??? Let's try a photo.... No! Let's try four photos, and I want it to pull them from iPhoto. ( This should kill it. *evil laugh*)

So I started with a new entry. After looking around, I did find an "Import from iPhoto". This popped up a new window with all my iPhoto images and the albums.

I clicked on four and clicked "import". This added them to the entry as thumbnails.
B y clicking on the image, it gave me a little box (located on the bottom right) for scaling the image, and by double-clicking on the image, a new box popped up, giving me more options than I imagined.

Thumbnail size
Embedded
Convert image to jpg: (good if you are taking screenshots that are .pdf)
Image resize: good if your jpg are large
I was also able to save my setting so I would be able to use them again later.
and much more..

Sample of photos

All the other stuff it will do:

This app has so much other stuff I could go into, but I do not think you want to read about it all, and I didn't have that kind of time. So this is the list from their website.

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 for the HTML editor (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 with iPhoto import via attachments
convert, scale images and create thumbnailsv 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 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)
and much much more!

What I really think:
If you work with blogs and you are looking for a app to ease some headache, check this app out. It is so simple to use but has all the stuff a pro would want in it.

The only bad thing I can say is that the html editor is a little buggy and sometimes will crash, but even with crashes, it will still save your work.

FYI:
If you have not figured it out by now, I used Ecto to enter this post and will probably use it for future posting.

Posted by macomadmin at November 1, 2004 01:30 AM

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