Ecto blogging tool for Windows

Ecto is a handy, fast, and powerful (but easy-to-use) blogging tool. Unfortunately, it's only been available for Macs- until now. The developers finally released the much-anticipated version 2.0 of ecto, now with Windows compatibility. It requires the .NET framework, and costs just under $18. What's so great about ecto? For me, aside from support for almost every major blogging service out there, it's the customizable HTML templates you can stick in the toolbar. That, coupled with the fact that you can save settings for each blog engine independently, means you can pretty handily set up your own blog empire within minutes. Seriously, I consider ecto to be one of the best apps of its kind. That isn't to say it's perfect. File upload in TypePad doesn't work yet, and there's no 64bit support yet in Windows, but ecto certainly makes blogging faster.

Tags: blogger, commercial, ecto, moveable type, MoveableType, typepad