FTW!…">Ecto sucks, MarsEdit FTW!…

• Posted: January 24, 2008
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• Author: Christina
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• Filed under: blogging,mac,software
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• Tags: apps, blogging, ecto, mac software, marsedit

In the words of the fabulous Heidi Klum, "Ecto, you're out."...

I’ve been test­ing out MarsEdit for the last cou­ple of weeks, try­ing to decide if I like it enough to buy it as my pri­mary blog client (as I said ear­lier, I hate the damn online edi­tor — HATE it). I actu­ally thought I had bought the pro­gram, but it turns out I bought some­thing else and got con­fused. Although it isn’t per­fect, it does get things done and that I do appre­ci­ate. I’d appre­ci­ate a straight WYSIWYG mode even more (Semagic let me switch between WYSIWYG and HTML, I used that or a vari­a­tion of it for 6 and a half years…this is why I’m picky), which is why I decided to give Ecto a shot.

Well, another shot. I tried it on Win­dows ages and ages ago and was pretty unim­pressed. It has improved (com­pared to what it was like in Win­dows), but beta or not, Ecto 3 is not doing it for me. I like that it has the WYSIWYG option (it’s not that I mind look­ing at my HTML mark-up, I just wish a tool­bar for bolding/underlining/strikethrough/linking/etc. was avail­able instead of hav­ing to use the Markup drop down. I’m try­ing to learn the key­board short­cuts and once I do, I’ll stop bitch­ing — I swear — but until then, I’m miss­ing dinky-ass Semagic more than I ever thought I would), but every­thing else falls short. No place for me to insert my excerpt like MarsEdit does — thought it did allow me to have access to a lame “sum­mary” area that showed up in my excerpt sec­tion once posted, mean­ing I had to go back and edit it out. I’m not a huge fan of the way its WYSIWYG mode does link­ing (if you want to unlink some­thing, it’s a pain in the ass), and see­ing as I’ve spent a para­graph bitch­ing about how much I miss the WYSIWYG mode from Semagic, that’s kind of sucky. But really, what killed it for me was its tagging/category list­ing abil­i­ties, or should I say, lack there of.

Now, I know Word­Press only recently joined the 21st cen­tury in terms of doing tag­ging — I get that it’s hard to update older clients for that func­tion — but if you make it look like you can tag some­thing in a cat­e­gory and then add tags and then it not only doesn’t tag shit — it doesn’t even assign all the cat­e­gories you selected, well FAIL.

So, in the words of the fab­u­lous Heidi Klum, “Ecto, you’re out. Con­grat­u­la­tions MarsEdit, you’re in.” Of course I don’t get to say it with that awe­some Ger­man accent or look­ing like a VS Angel, but what the hell.

Out.

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