Try ecto. It’s rilly, rilly good

Picture 2-2I like being able to compose blog posts even when I’m not online – though that’s quite seldom. And while you could use any old text editor or word processor to compose and format your posts, you’d still have to do a bit of cutting, pasting or clicking here and there.

So I’ve been using blogging client software for a bit now – beginning with w.bloggar (Windows only), and for the past half year, with this nifty little one for both Mac and Windows, called ecto. There are sweet little script functions that allow you to add technorati tags, iTunes info, Amazon IDs, paste iPhoto pictures and customise a whole lot of other things to make blogging easier, so that when you’re blogging, you’re concentrating on your content, and not about formatting.

Picture 3-3ecto also works with almost every single blog engine that I know, or are worth knowing – Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, Livejournal – so it means you can keep track of and post to several blogs, just from the one application. Good hor?

So, if you’re still logging on to Blogger or wordpress.com, and regularly losing half-done blog posts because your mother came into the room and pulled the modem plug out to vacuum the floor, I reckon now’s as good a time as any to check ecto out.

Any connection dead or alive between this software review and this blog being named ecto-powered blog of the week is purely coincidental. But thank you ecto! You is rawks!

iTunes is playing an illegal copy of The Christmas Song from the album “2046 Original Soundtrack” by Nat King Cole And The Nat King Cole Trio of which I have the original CD.

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14 responses to “Try ecto. It’s rilly, rilly good”

  1. A week after installing ecto after seeingmiyagi advertise it, I chanced upon Performancing. It works a bit like Ecto, but what is good about it is that, it’s a Firefox extension, which means you blog from within Firefox, but without having to sign in to Blogger or whatever your weblog system is.

  2. jackson Avatar

    WOw! for this you are the last ecto-powered blog of the week in 2005!

  3. jackson Avatar

    WOw! for this you are the last ecto-powered blog of the week in 2005!

  4. Adriaan Avatar

    No no, Jackson, this entry was written AFTER the ecto-powered blog of the week was awarded.

  5. Adriaan Avatar

    No no, Jackson, this entry was written AFTER the ecto-powered blog of the week was awarded.

  6. jackson Avatar

    Even more wow than. Wower.

  7. jackson Avatar

    Even more wow than. Wower.

  8. the screwy skeptic Avatar

    Oh my god that’s amazing stuff. This is like watching one of those infomercials where I feel compelled to go out and get it now. Gah.

  9. the screwy skeptic Avatar

    Oh my god that’s amazing stuff. This is like watching one of those infomercials where I feel compelled to go out and get it now. Gah.

  10. I is trying ecto for the first time

  11. […] anyways, ecto used mrmiyagi’s review of it … heh its like seeing a mirror behind u while ure facing another mirror, ecto is using his entry on their site but his entry is giving a good review of their software .. heh […]

  12. heidi Avatar
    heidi

    Yeah,you are talking rubish!

  13. heidi Avatar

    Yeah,you are talking rubish!

  14. […] ecto used mrmiyagi’s review of it … heh its like seeing a mirror behind u while ure facing another mirror, ecto is using […]

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