*sigh*<\/small> <\/p>\n
I’ve been using Ecto as a blogging tool for a couple of years now. It’s a nice offline blogging client with some features I can’t imagine living without. In particular it has some great formatting tools, a versatile picture uploader, and a template\/tag\/snippet tool that makes my life huuuuugely <\/em>easier.<\/p>\n But …<\/p>\n Ecto<\/a> was originally created for the Mac, with a separate developer working on the Windows version. Upgrades of the Windows version have gotten slower of late, and now the two versions have reached a<\/a> parting of<\/a> the ways<\/a>. While the developer says he’ll continue to support the Windows version, the signs aren’t promising:<\/p>\n On the other hand, a new point version was posted at the beginning of April (first since January). And that fixed the one most annoying bug in the program. And I’ve always found the developer to be responsive until the last several months.<\/p>\n So I’m worried. 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