I choose an offline blogging tool.
I did some research — I admit, not a lot — and wound up trying two offline blogging tools: MarsEdit and ecto.
After testing both for a while and really playing around a lot with ecto on a recent trip to Howard Mesa, I settled on ecto. It all came down to interface. I decided I liked ecto’s best. The main selling point? It’ll sound silly, but I like the fact that the composition window always opens as it was configured the last time I used it: size, category display, etc. Lots of keyboard shortcut support, too.
This evening, when I paid for ecto — it’s try-before-you-buy software — I learned about endo, a feed reader application by the same folks. The deal was, if I bought ecto for $17.95, I could get endo for just $8.98. Never one to turn down a deal without first checking it out, I downloaded endo and gave it a good perusal. And even though I don’t generally subscribe to feeds, I coughed up the extra few bucks. I can always load it up with articles before I go off-the-grid and read them (or at least flag them for online reading, in the case of excerpts) when I have time.
Or not use it at all. Frankly, I think ecto alone was worth the $27 I spent.
Anyway, you can learn more about ecto and endo at Ado’s software page.
Ecto comes in two flavors: Windows and Mac OS X. Endo is Mac OS X only.
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1 Miraz // Jul 23, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I’ll be interested to hear how you get on with Endo.
Get ready though for the frustration of feeds that only provide excerpts - especially if you’re planning on offline-reading. :-)
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