Comments on: ecto for Windows 2.2 released

By: One Stop Under

One Stop Under — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:06:16 +0000

UltraRob – you can either do it now while you don’t have a lot of content and not many incoming links, or you can do it later when it’ll be a much bigger job and much more disruptive. You really need to control your own domain if you want control over your destiny.

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:00:42 +0000

Khurrum – you’re right, there’s nothing wrong with java – just that it totally slows down an application (and freezes up quite a bit) on my PC – I had this discussion on my blog a while back and many felt that way and even one of the people behind Qumana said if they could start again they wouldn’t have used Java.

Darren – yep, you’re right. xmlrpc.php is where the problem lies. I’ve tried Deborah’s (#4) suggestion Post2Blog and same problem.

Guess it’s off to my web host.

Next step is to decide between Ecto and Post2Blog – both look good. :-)

By: UltraRob

UltraRob — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:57:21 +0000

Has anybody used GoDaddy’s Quick Blog? If so what’s your impression of it? On a somewhat related note, my blog is on blogspot and I’ve considered moving it either to GoDaddy or at least publishing it to my site instead of having it at a blogger URL. I don’t have a huge number of inbound links but at least a few dozen. I’m assuming at least half of them wouldn’t get updated if I move URLs. I’m worried about what it would do to my Google rank.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:55:11 +0000

Martin, I couldn’t get Ecto to work properly for a long time, and it turned out my web host was filtering/restricting access to xmlrpc.php. It wasn’t something they told me about, and it took me a lot of asking similar questions multiple times, but eventually I got a tech support person who knew what I was talking about and fixed it.

It works fairly well for me now (I’m using the Mac version).

By: Khurrum

Khurrum — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:50:20 +0000

Martin Neumann> Nothing wrong with java ;) . Try downloading SE6

I have the windows version. I used to use it all the time but these days I’m actually liking MS Live writer more. I’ll try ecto 2.2 and see if it’s gotten any better.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:30:13 +0000

I am a mac user and love ecto. I also use a Dell laptop and tried using ecto and had problems right off the bat with installation. Files were missing!
I deleted and tried again only to find then some functions did not work at all. My post would only half load.
I was really disappointed with the image editing, not anything like the ecto for mac.
So what am I saying here?
Still not enough updates for me to use on the Dell, I am currently using Post2blog for my laptop blogging.

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:18:42 +0000

I like the interface and that it’s not based on Java (Quamana is perfect, except the java it’s based on ruins it) – but sigh!!! I can’t get ecto to find my blog – my guess it has to do with xmlrpc.php

Oh well, it’s off to their forums…

BTW, someone should do a thorough review/comparison of all the blogging editors out there – I’m sure it’ll be a sticky winner.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:59:54 +0000

yeah – while I strongly recommend the mac version I can’t vouch for the Windows one as I’ve not used it yet (maybe soon). I’d heard the previous versions of the Windows ecto were not as good as the mac one – not sure how much this really catches it up.

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:50:15 +0000

Darren – I recall you being a user of ecto but you’re mac man – would you recommend the windows version? I’ve tried most of the desktop editors out there and nothing appeals to me.