Testing Ecto for blogging. So far I’ve created an entry, created a second entry, deleted that entry, and now I’m modifying the first entry. The UI is a bit clunky under Windows – small unintuitive icons scattered all over the place – but the basic functionality seems to work after a shaky start. Spell-checking is OK. Default post settings are broken; there’s a documented workaround on the support forum. It works with my Movable Type 2.64 version out of the box.
I”ll try the Mac version later. (I’m in the middle of backing up everything to my new LaCie 200GB drive.)
ecto is shareware… or rather trialware – it stops working after 14 days without paid registration. (That’s not my definition of shareware, but never mind.) It’s $17.95 for either Windows or Mac OS X; if you use both, you need two licenses. If the Mac version is as good as I expect, that will be a very reasonable price; I’ll just have to decide which machine to use as my primary blogging vehicle.
[composed and posted with ecto]