Post using ecto

ecto is another external blog editor for OSX. MarsEdit is quite good but unfortunately doesn’t work from behind the school proxy. I cannot find any proxy settings for ecto either but the interface for seems a bit nicer.

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It provides more WYSWYG stuff with rich text editing or html depending on your preference. You can browse iPhoto post current iTunes track and some other stuff with the click of a button from inside ecto and there are neat check boxes for categories and tags. I’m going to try both for a bit and see which one I settle on. My money is on ecto. It’s a bit cheaper too I think.

Post from MarsEdit

I was interested to find out if MarsEdit would work with Edublogs. I tried it at school and it wouldn’t hook up (kept giving a password error – more on that later) so I thought I would try from home. Bingo! Worked first time.

Got me to thinking…

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Maybe I didn’t read the password dialogue box very carefully. Maybe it was asking for my proxy password and I kept providing the blog credentials. i will try again tomorrow and post an update.

Above is the MarsEdit logo with a link to Red-Sweater (the peeps that make MarsEdit). Below is an image that I have added from my Flickr account just to test out the functionality of MarsEdit. The inline spell checking is nice and I have played around with the hotkeys to make the html tags easier. I guess going through the WordPress WYSIWYG input fields online means you can avoid all that but it can sometimes be a bit slow.