Ecto – Another choice for blogging
About a month ago I decided to try MarsEdit, a desktop blogging application for the Mac. The idea behind MarsEdit was to provide a better interface for creating,editing and managing blog post. As someone that maintains and writes for multiple blogs, this was something that sounded interesting. After all the web interfaces were often somewhat less than ideal, especially if you write for several different blogs. There were passwords and URLs to remember and lets face it even the best web interfaces are still not as responsive as a good ole desktop application.
Overall I was quite impressed with MarsEdit. Yes there were a few small things that I didn’t like, but overall I thought it was a far superior experience to the multiple web interfaces I was using to provide content to several blogs. In fact so impressed was I that I was ready to go ahead and purchase MarEdit, but before I did I thought it would be worthwhile to check out the competition.
Perhaps the best known competitor in the desktop blogging space on the Mac is a program called ecto by Adriaan Tijsseling of infinite sushi. I had seen several positive reviews on both MarsEdit and ecto, so I thought I would give the trial version of ecto a spin, before I purchased either.So that is exactly what I am doing – I am writing this post using ecto the feature-rich desktop blogging client for Mac OSX. The trial version of ecto is a 21 day trial (9 less than MarsEdit or the typical 30 day trial), so I will give it whirl and see which one better suits my needs. I do see some promising aspects to ecto, like the Amazon integration. I did download the newest release, which is ecto 3, which is still a beta today as I write this entry. At anyrate I’ll post my thoughts once I have used ecto for a few weeks and let you know which one I decide to buy.