Ecto started acting up on me lately. It may be because of new hardware, new version of WordPress, whatever. It’s just not a smooth as it once was. I’ve also been looking around and reading other reviews about blogging software on the Mac – and one term keeps resurfacing when it comes to Ecto: Abandonware.
It shows. There haven’t been many posts about Ecto, no new versions, even their support forums are down (due to technical error, but still..)
Here is another one of those sites that has made it to my RSS reader. WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO is a website devote to displaying user contributed photos of where they do the things that they do. I came across this site when I was looking for ideas for my new office design. While a lot of the pictures concentrate on the PC or Mac that is located in the office (I’m assuming that most of the people just live on their PCs/Mac like me…), there are quite a few that are unique and don’t feature high-tech hardware. It’s a wide collection of creative, and some times raw work environments that makes me look forward to each new posting. Do yourself a favor and add it to your favorite RSS reader — If you’re like me, you’ll enjoy spending some time seeing where people do the things that they do.
-JT
Disregard my last post about Back in the Saddle with Live Writer — I’ve found Nirvana in Ecto v3 for the Mac. No longer will I have that icky feeling firing up a Windows VM to run a blog editor. Now I can concentrate on just producing content and not worry about interoperability or resource consumption. I think I’m going to cry.
Whew.. I’ve missed this program a lot since losing my VMWare Vista client. I’ve just downloaded and installed Windows 7 on VM and it seems to be working. I’ll have another blog entry about that. But for now, I think the most important thing that help resolve some of my networking issues with both Vista and Windows 7 clients is switching to NAT addressing rather than bridging with the new version of VMWare Fusion – 2.0.1.
I now simultaneously run a client VM and Mac software at the same time without losing any networking on the Mac side. Entirely too bizarre and I’m happy just to have a work around.
Looks like they also upgraded the software since the last time I used it. Looks like we’re up to Build 14.
-JT
I’ve help develop a couple of websites lately and I’ve been bitten once again by dated material found on the Internet. I seriously hate it when you are doing research and you encounter what you think is a great page with pertinent data only to find out you based all your research on ‘yesterday’s’ technology/views/opinions. I guess I’ve been running out of patience to do thorough work in some aspects. Yet, I do think that anyone that attempts to share information, they should put it into context or at the very least put a date on their article/comment.
On this blog, I’ve been a little re-miss as well. I’ve taken the easy route and just have the blogging software display the date that the article was published or edited. I think I’ll need to do more than that as a vanity search has proven that people have been reproducing info from this site (thank you btw for stopping by and I do hope you found the information useful) and basically the reproduce information was ‘archaic’ as one commenter mentioned. Now I’m not saying that I have any control of what people do with the information I post – but I think I’ll make more of a concerted effort to inform all readers that the information on this site has a limited usefulness lifespan.
Thanks!
JT