Trying out Ecto 
January 17th, 2006
Well I’ve finally broken down and I’m looking around for a new blog tool (a desktop program I can use to compose, edit and store blog posts then publish to my blog). I’ve downloaded Ecto and got it up a running pretty quickly. So far it seems good. Simple user interface, syncs well with my existing blog posts and has good support for tags and categories that my Word Press blog uses. Although it’s not free, a 21 day trial and $17.95 price tag seem reasonable to me. No WYSIWYG editor though:(
Why someone hasn’t built a kick ass web based user interface for blogging is beyond me…especially since if they used AJAX + Flash it could be used online and offline:P Soon enough. I’m guessing it’s hard to make a buck building blog software.
(Update: Ecto is no where near as good as Performancing’s FF plug-in for blogging)
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January 25th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Have you tried Performancing.com’s plug-in for Firefox Andre? It works pretty well, all from within the browser. You should try it out. Qumana isn’t bad either, although it’s a standalone app.
Mathew
January 25th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Qumana is terrible. It’s so slow I want to gauge my eyes out.
January 25th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Wow. I hope you were wearing safety glasses! I’m using Performancing’s plug-in right now. I really like it so far. I think I’m going to stick with it for a while. It’s fast, has wysiswyg, lighweight and integrated into FF. Good stuff boys!