Endo and Ecto for Your Mac
Two new programs I have downloaded onto my computer are endo and ecto, made by Adriaan Tijsseling of Kula Co., Ltd.. They are also the makers of Flickr desktop client 1001, the mood setter widget Whatever, Japanese vocabulary training aid Kotoba, NBA tracker Tip-Off and MLB tracker Ballpark. A lot of their software and scripts are freeware, although endo and ecto are not. What they are is well worth the money, though.
So what are endo and ecto, exactly? Endo is a smart aggregating feed reader, and is now the only feed reader I will use. It is comprehensive, easy to set up, impressively simple to put to use, and as far as I can tell is fairly idiot proof. Ecto is a desktop blog manager that will work with (and import from) nearly any blog platform on the market, including the free ones like Blogger and the pay-to-play ones like Movable Type.
With all of the blogs I write for, both programs have become invaluable, working flawlessly as a team on my MacBook. They interact well with FireFox and Safari, and they aren’t bandwidth hogs. You can open as many feeds as you need to, and start as many posts for as many blogs as you’d like with no strain on your system at all. Not only do they play well with others, they fit the Mac “look” as well, key to marketing to the Apple fanatic crowd.
Read the rest of my product review on endo and ecto here.
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