New apps

Well new apps to me at least!

This my first post using ecto, a “desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows”.
Initial impressions are good. The interface is clean and easy to navigate. Writing posts can be done in plain text (with html tags) or in rich text which is then converted to html.
Click to select categories for new posts, add your current itunes tunes, publish/unpublish/delete…….. all from one app. Nice.

Also new to my Mac today is Growl, a notification system for OS X.
Basically posts an alert on your desktop when a supported app does something, eg. Apple Mail receives a mail, new ICQ message, download completes, etc.
Supported apps on my machine at the moment include the above mentioned ecto, Adium (chat), Colloquy (IRC), Cyberduck (FTP), and Shiira (my new fave web browser). Growl is proving quite useful actually. It has certainly lessened the number of times I flick back to read my new ICQ “message” only to see an Emoticon! It’s worth it just for that!

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