eclecticism

01/09/2004 |

The creator of blogging client Kung-Log has rewritten, updated, and renamed it, and has just relased the first public beta of ecto, which I’m playing with now. While I was never completely pulled in by Kung-Log, ecto so far seem to be fairly impressive. Quick response time, supports about everything I’d want it to (trackback pings, categories, file uploading, etc.), and has a decent number of useful extras (an option to prevent uploading posts that don’t have a category set or a summary written, and a live preview that can even tie into your site’s stylesheet so that it actually looks the way it should once posted), plus some “fun” goodies (like the ability to automatically insert what track iTunes is currently playing).

I’ve gotten so used to just using the web interface that I’m not entirely sure if I’ll be coaxed away from that or not, but I’m always willing to give one of these things a try. We’ll see how it goes.

(via Lane)

iTunes: “Difficult Listening Hour - 02v2” by DJ Wüdi from the album Difficult Listening Hour (2000, 1:04:41).

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2 Responses to “ecto beta available”

lane Says:
January 9th, 2004 at 11:07 am

the things that really sell me on ecto:

easy multiple blog support
all the necessary image tags!
easy editing of posts
customizable auto-html tags

i’m sure there are more, but these four have me hooked.

pops Says:
January 9th, 2004 at 7:38 pm

It lets you add pings (e.g. Technorati) which TP doesn’t support. That’s cool, plus it does do some HTML tricks TP is still working on.

Also it has an advantage using Safari as its interface. TP’s underline, italics buttons et al. don’t work on Safari. Those do work in Mozilla but Mo is still kinda unstable in many areas. It’s a bit of a relief to work off Safari instead.

Since it’s good until the end of the month I’ll give it a spin. I kinda like seeing my posts in the typestyle I’m using.

HOWEVER back here at Mac 10.2-something Ecto doesn’t do line breaks worth a damn.

10.2-whatever?

We might get a new Mac so I’ve held off spending $130.