http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/10/marsedit-10/ Where Past Meets Future Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:01:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/10/marsedit-10/#comment-20 goskar.com » Blog Archive » Ecto: The Review Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:26:17 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=8#comment-20 [...] Ecto is a mature, stable blogging client. It has enough features to make is powerful, but designed in such a way that is isn’t daunting to use. I still haven’t read the manual (I will get around to it at some point!), which demonstrates how intuitive it is. It is quite obvious (to me, at least) how to perform most of the tasks that I need to do. I have tested MarsEdit, but found that it lacked many of the features of ecto, a little more ‘clunky’ to use, and more expensive. The only thing I liked about MarsEdit over ecto was its icons [...] [...] Ecto is a mature, stable blogging client. It has enough features to make is powerful, but designed in such a way that is isn’t daunting to use. I still haven’t read the manual (I will get around to it at some point!), which demonstrates how intuitive it is. It is quite obvious (to me, at least) how to perform most of the tasks that I need to do. I have tested MarsEdit, but found that it lacked many of the features of ecto, a little more ‘clunky’ to use, and more expensive. The only thing I liked about MarsEdit over ecto was its icons [...]

]]> http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/10/marsedit-10/#comment-3 Tom Tue, 10 May 2005 15:18:31 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=8#comment-3 I've just found the "Live Preview" pane in MarsEdit, so you can see roughly what your post will look like when you upload. While this is good, it means that you have lots of clutter - one window for your blog control, one for a new post, one for an image upload, and one for a live preview. It's very unlike the well-polished NetNewsWire, which I'm using in the version 2 beta. I’ve just found the “Live Preview” pane in MarsEdit, so you can see roughly what your post will look like when you upload. While this is good, it means that you have lots of clutter - one window for your blog control, one for a new post, one for an image upload, and one for a live preview. It’s very unlike the well-polished NetNewsWire, which I’m using in the version 2 beta.

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