Try ecto. It’s rilly, rilly good

I 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.

ecto 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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