ecto for Mac
Post entries to weblog systems (was Kung-Log).
$19.95
In English
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ecto overview
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 in version 3.0.2
Version 3.0.2:
- Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
ecto for Mac
$19.95
In English
Version 3.0.2
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Aug 27 2016
Version: 3.0
Sad. I was looking at some reviews and Ecto was the best blog writer.
But unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in 7 years.
And the developer illumineX hasn't updated their website in 7 years as well.
Their website no longer has a forum also.
So I can assume that Ecto is unfortunately dead software.
May 4 2015
Version: 3.0
This still works well for me, its just a shame it got abandoned, I might try blogo, MArs edit doesn't cut it for me
Dec 5 2013
Version: 3.0
This software used to be useful, but now it crashes all the time while trying to launch the app. Please update the app to be workable with Mavericks.
Mar 26 2011
Version: 3.0
Ecto is very much alive. Just received this note from the illumineX CEO who writes: "Yes, we've been doing a lot of work to ecto. We're going through the entire codebase, updating it to the modern Snow Leopard APIs so that it will be more stable and responsive. We've made about 2700 changes so far, and have a few more to go before we can release an update."
Anxious to put this new ecto version to good use and know a lot of others are, too!
Nov 26 2010
Version: 3.0
This software seems to have been abandoned. The current version is extremely buggy and unstable. Developer is AWOL. Too bad since it was good in the day but that day is gone.
