ecto 2 beta release!
With a bit of reluctance, due to perfectionism, I‘m releasing the first public beta of ecto 2 for MacOSX. It has endured 3 weeks of intensive beta testing by several enthusiast ecto users as well as a bunch of newcomers. The rough edges and the nasty bugs have been dealt with, so this version should be relatively stable. It will still have some bugs, as all software do. If you feel like trying out ecto 2, download it, read the included documentation (especially upgrading.rtfd), and install it.
Beta-testing guidelines:
If you bump into a bug, by all means, provide me with a detailed report (beta forum) containing:
- The exact steps needed to reproduce the bug (any HTML or rich text that might be relevant)
- The settings for your ecto (e.g. is auto-saving drafts on?)
- A crash log, if any (should be in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/)
- If the bug involves a connection issue, always reproduce first with the ecto console open (Window->Console or control-cmd-D). In fact, I recommend to always have the ecto console open until you’re sure ecto is working well with your weblog server.
- A list of haxies that you have installed on your mac (i.e Insanity haxies, SIMBL stuff, Input Managers. IceCoffee, for one, affects ecto editing).
For those who have been blogging with ecto 1, the “upgrade.rtfd” file included in the download is very informative about the changes. Please read it.
I hope you will enjoy ecto 2!
Btw, ecto 2 will be a free upgrade...
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Excerpt: i must say, if you own a mac and do any blogging, or have ever thought about it. i have to highly recommend you give the beta version of ecto2 a try. the best has just gotten better. i'm amongst the proud and privileged few who were allowed to give this program a try during it's closed beta period, and let me be (not quite) the first to say: it rocks. i mentioned
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Excerpt: [Life] "When it rains, it pours" can also have a good meaning: just after playing with MarsEdit the other Weblog editor ecto is bumped to version 2 . In fact, I'm now posting this entry with it. And I must say, I think we've got ourselves a winner here. (As much as I appreciate Brent Simmons great work and care for details...) The crucial criteria for me: it's got a WYSIAWYG (what you see is
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Excerpt: Adriaan released the ecto 2 public beta today. Overall, a very good upgrade, but there is one problem that I’ve found. I can’t seem to figure out how to change the Formatting (I usually use Markdown with Smartypants to format my entries). When it changes to html mode, the formatting
Excerpt: Adriaan released the ecto 2 public beta today. Overall, a very good upgrade, but there is one problem that I’ve found. I can’t seem to figure out how to change the Formatting (I usually use Markdown with Smartypants to format my entries). When it changes to html mode, the formatting
The Moronosphere
Excerpt: a more intuitive interface for main entries and continuations, and I'm guessing some other features that I have not found yet. Ecto 1 was great. This one looks like a major leap forward in usability. If you're an ecto user already, I'd suggest gettng it . If you're not an ecto user, but you're a blogger using any of the major platforms, take a look. It's a big improvement over the web-based interfaces that most platforms provide. I'm happy to insert this tag:
Excerpt: a more intuitive interface for main entries and continuations, and I'm guessing some other features that I have not found yet. Ecto 1 was great. This one looks like a major leap forward in usability. If you're an ecto user already, I'd suggest gettng it . If you're not an ecto user, but you're a blogger using any of the major platforms, take a look. It's a big improvement over the web-based interfaces that most platforms provide. I'm happy to insert this tag:
The Home of Mayhem & Chaos:blog
Excerpt: Real stops selling music at a loss [ I just downloaded and I am trying out the 2.0 beta of ecto -- looks very slick so far and a great improvement over the old Kung-log. I like the easy with which I can create hyperlinks -- copy a link into the clipboard, highlight some text in the post, hit the link button. The link dialog does all the right
Excerpt: Real stops selling music at a loss [ I just downloaded and I am trying out the 2.0 beta of ecto -- looks very slick so far and a great improvement over the old Kung-log. I like the easy with which I can create hyperlinks -- copy a link into the clipboard, highlight some text in the post, hit the link button. The link dialog does all the right
Der Schockwellenreiter
Excerpt: [Weblog-Editor 2.0] Tom hat seine Testreihe fortgesetzt. Und vergleicht MarsEdit mit Ecto Version 2 . Bei ihm hat ecto2 den Vergleich gewonnen. [tomster.blog]
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Tim's Reflection Connection
Excerpt: New Version of ecto I have used a couple of GUIs as a front end to my Movable Type blogging software. I liked ecto a lot. I have used it a lot. A new beta version is out. It's awesome!
Excerpt: New Version of ecto I have used a couple of GUIs as a front end to my Movable Type blogging software. I liked ecto a lot. I have used it a lot. A new beta version is out. It's awesome!
Still Eggplant . . . forever more
Excerpt: I learned about Ecto through Boing Boing. Here are some of the great things about it: -It has an HTML guide (for those who don't sleep it -It is quasi-WYSIWIG -It has a small footprint And there are supposedly hundreds of cool things about it that I haven't discovered,
Excerpt: I learned about Ecto through Boing Boing. Here are some of the great things about it: -It has an HTML guide (for those who don't sleep it -It is quasi-WYSIWIG -It has a small footprint And there are supposedly hundreds of cool things about it that I haven't discovered,
TheMM or us?
Excerpt: n zu sehen, wenn shareware programmierer sich nicht auf einem bereits guten und ausgereiften programm ausruhen, sondern auf die user hören und ihr programm weiterentwickeln. so geschehen im falle von [IMG]ecto, das jetzt in der [IMG] öffentlichen betaversion 2.0 vorliegt.The basic idea behind ecto's WYSIAWYG is to offer users the ability to compose entries without having to bother with HTML tags. Since most blog entries are not complete web sites, composition of entries only allows font and paragraph changes,
Excerpt: n zu sehen, wenn shareware programmierer sich nicht auf einem bereits guten und ausgereiften programm ausruhen, sondern auf die user hören und ihr programm weiterentwickeln. so geschehen im falle von [IMG]ecto, das jetzt in der [IMG] öffentlichen betaversion 2.0 vorliegt.The basic idea behind ecto's WYSIAWYG is to offer users the ability to compose entries without having to bother with HTML tags. Since most blog entries are not complete web sites, composition of entries only allows font and paragraph changes,
MacMove
Excerpt: beta release of Ecto2 . Ecto, as well as a couple other pieces of nice OS X software can be found over at http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/ As regular readers of this blog know, both Mike and I are regular users of Ecto. it is easy to use, has some limited photo management and
Excerpt: beta release of Ecto2 . Ecto, as well as a couple other pieces of nice OS X software can be found over at http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/ As regular readers of this blog know, both Mike and I are regular users of Ecto. it is easy to use, has some limited photo management and
Hot Links - Level 2
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padawan.info
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Fivis
Excerpt: I'm aiming to research how many posters for top blogs, listed at Bloglines, use Apples as their primary computer. There is certainly an undercurrent of sameness syndication that occurs with every Apple product release or major software release . A misrepresentation of Windows users is not necessarily wrong, but it deserves to be quantified. posted by Michael @ 6:49 PM
Excerpt: I'm aiming to research how many posters for top blogs, listed at Bloglines, use Apples as their primary computer. There is certainly an undercurrent of sameness syndication that occurs with every Apple product release or major software release . A misrepresentation of Windows users is not necessarily wrong, but it deserves to be quantified. posted by Michael @ 6:49 PM
いい感じ
Excerpt: WYSIWYAG ；） ecto2 β [IMG ecto2]ブログ投稿ツールのectoの次期バージョン。 ecto２のベータ版が公開 された。 WYSIWYAG...WYSIWYGじゃないそうだ。；） 完全なWYSIWYG（見たまんま）じゃないけど、それらしい使い勝手。十分。これはいい感じ （まだ、バグはいろいろあるようだけどね）
Excerpt: WYSIWYAG ；） ecto2 β [IMG ecto2]ブログ投稿ツールのectoの次期バージョン。 ecto２のベータ版が公開 された。 WYSIWYAG...WYSIWYGじゃないそうだ。；） 完全なWYSIWYG（見たまんま）じゃないけど、それらしい使い勝手。十分。これはいい感じ （まだ、バグはいろいろあるようだけどね）
The Last Minute
Excerpt: [IMG 7280_front.jpg] Watch these new ads from people who were in the Air National Guard Unit that Bush says he was in. These dudes are like I never saw Bush once! Texans for Truth Testing out Ecto 2 Beta with this post... Currenty listenin to: Crutch from the album "Pinback" by Pinback September 9, 2004 in Current Affairs, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Excerpt: [IMG 7280_front.jpg] Watch these new ads from people who were in the Air National Guard Unit that Bush says he was in. These dudes are like I never saw Bush once! Texans for Truth Testing out Ecto 2 Beta with this post... Currenty listenin to: Crutch from the album "Pinback" by Pinback September 9, 2004 in Current Affairs, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A View from Home
Excerpt: I want to stress that I'm doing this not to rag on ecto or its developers...I'm only trying to help in the beta testing process. I'm sure these kinks will be worked out and ecto 2 will be fantastic. ecto version 2 is out in public beta
Excerpt: I want to stress that I'm doing this not to rag on ecto or its developers...I'm only trying to help in the beta testing process. I'm sure these kinks will be worked out and ecto 2 will be fantastic. ecto version 2 is out in public beta
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Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
Excerpt: allow editing, I chose the easier route. Images can still be positioned and resized in place, but text flow is not what you will see. That's one reason for the 'A' in WYSIAWYG... 'almost' (If your entry fails to post, read "Got" instead of "Get"...). Link
Excerpt: allow editing, I chose the easier route. Images can still be positioned and resized in place, but text flow is not what you will see. That's one reason for the 'A' in WYSIAWYG... 'almost' (If your entry fails to post, read "Got" instead of "Get"...). Link
eclecticism
Excerpt: The well-preserved remains of a steam ship that once smuggled guns, drugs and illegal workers -- but which is best known for launching the Klondike Gold Rush -- have been identified near Cordova, sticking out of the mud. (c:0) (tb:0) ecto blog: ecto 2 beta release! (c:0) (tb:0) Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement. (c:0) (tb:0) Should I Rip This? v1.0
Excerpt: The well-preserved remains of a steam ship that once smuggled guns, drugs and illegal workers -- but which is best known for launching the Klondike Gold Rush -- have been identified near Cordova, sticking out of the mud. (c:0) (tb:0) ecto blog: ecto 2 beta release! (c:0) (tb:0) Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement. (c:0) (tb:0) Should I Rip This? v1.0
[観] 観測気球
Excerpt: ecto 1.x から 2.0 へのアップグレードは無料のようです。 If you feel like trying out ecto 2, download it, read the included documentation (especially upgrading.rtfd), and install it. ecto blog: ecto 2 beta release!
Excerpt: ecto 1.x から 2.0 へのアップグレードは無料のようです。 If you feel like trying out ecto 2, download it, read the included documentation (especially upgrading.rtfd), and install it. ecto blog: ecto 2 beta release!
Letters From Exile
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seanbonner
Excerpt: That said, there is potential there - it just needs to be much simpler to operate. I think people finding better ways to do things is great, I'm just not sure this is it. So, No, I'm not using Ecto. UPDATE: They have released a public beta so you can feel free to try it on your own. As I said, a lot of people I know love it, it just doesn't feel right for me.
Excerpt: That said, there is potential there - it just needs to be much simpler to operate. I think people finding better ways to do things is great, I'm just not sure this is it. So, No, I'm not using Ecto. UPDATE: They have released a public beta so you can feel free to try it on your own. As I said, a lot of people I know love it, it just doesn't feel right for me.
Just a Gwai Lo | nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn
Excerpt: [IMG Dark mask painting by Lisa Chau] © Lisa Chau Upcoming Ain't shit happenin' Asides September 8th ecto 2.0 public beta released
Excerpt: [IMG Dark mask painting by Lisa Chau] © Lisa Chau Upcoming Ain't shit happenin' Asides September 8th ecto 2.0 public beta released
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Ecto 2 RULEZ!!! And thanks for describing the bug!