Favorite Blog client
Ecto, for my money, has a tendency to over power you with the number of windows and choices that you have. MarsEdit gives you less in the way of options, but I think that actually makes the product much more usable.
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The Apple Blog wants to know what your favorite blog client is. I have made no effort to hide the fact that I enjoy using MarsEdit for a...
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I've been using Ecto for a week, I've been quite impressed, but reading here, I think I'll try MarsEdit to compare. I don't like the way Ecto puts tags at the side, I haven't managed to upload a photo successfully from iphoto yet, but the basic functions are well done and simply enough to figure out quickly.
January 20 2006 at 7:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNow I have to try Etco and MarsEdit. You all make them sound so good. But what about MacJournal? http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85
No one mentioned that and I think it's on sale till the first of the year.
I use Mars Edit with half a dozen WordPress blogs and a Typepad blog. It works beautifully for me. Being able to create custom tags is extremely useful, and of course the bookmarklet to pull things straight off a web page into Mars Edit.
December 28 2005 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRapidweaver for me. Does more than just a blog!
December 28 2005 at 5:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI use MarsEdit to update both my WordPress blog and Livejournal. I've tried Ecto and various Livejournal clients, but MarsEdit has been my favorite.
December 28 2005 at 4:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI use ecto, but I have a slight issue where occasionally with my wordpress blog it will not actually make the blog entry viewable at all. I have to delete the entry and repost it for it to be viewed.
December 28 2005 at 3:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI use ecto. The best feature it has is it keeps me from ever seeing the horrible interface that is the WordPress admin area.
December 28 2005 at 3:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI hate it when you guys link to a search inside TUAW instead of linking directly to a product page. That's so Engadget-y. It really gets on my nerves.
Anyways, I only use the BlogThis! bookmarklet that blogger offers. Very handy. And probably if someday I switch to some other blogging system I'd use the Admin page. I feel they are more reliable, don't ask me why. It's just a feeling.
I use ecto. I used to use Marsedit, but at the time it had annoying incompatibilities with the blogger API, so I bought ecto. I think those bugs have been ironed out of Marsedit, but I've gotten used to ecto, so I'm sticking to it.
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