{"id":389,"date":"2009-08-19T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/good-riddens-ecto\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:35:36","slug":"good-riddens-ecto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/good-riddens-ecto\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddens Ecto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was using <a href=\"http:\/\/illuminex.com\/mac\/ecto\/\">Ecto<\/a>, a Mac OS X blog client for the past year or so.&nbsp; Overall I really DIDN&#8217;T like it, except that it had the ability to allow me to &#8220;Paste&#8221; images into the blog using the clipboard.&nbsp; You&#8217;d be surprised at how many blog clients still force you save a file on to your computer, then browse to it, and then upload it, then include it in your post.&nbsp; A real drag when you&#8217;re trying to do a few simple software screen shots.<\/p>\n<p>I upgraded to a new Mac recently and the Ecto license key I had didn&#8217;t come over from the old Mac.&nbsp; According to the Ecto <a href=\"http:\/\/illuminex.com\/support\/keys\/\">website<\/a>, just email them and they&#8217;ll send it along.&nbsp; I emailed on 8\/11\/2009 and no response.&nbsp; Not good customer service at all.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But I really wanted to blog about the <a href=\"\/bt\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/encrypted-variables-in-pdi\/\">encrypted variables<\/a>; I downloaded and gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a> a try and I&#8217;m switching.&nbsp; It can paste images same as Ecto and it&#8217;s built right into Firefox.&nbsp; Excellent!<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Ecto customer service really goofed on this one.&nbsp; You&#8217;ve got a customer who isn&#8217;t happy, gave me an opportunity to find something I like better, and a chance to blog about the whole thing!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=0c4a809b-3724-83f4-84aa-b68eb49d891f\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was using Ecto, a Mac OS X blog client for the past year or so.&nbsp; Overall I really DIDN&#8217;T like it, except that it had the ability to allow me to &#8220;Paste&#8221; images into the blog using the clipboard.&nbsp; You&#8217;d be surprised at how many blog clients still force you save a file on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}