The Progress Bar

The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!I stopped using Ecto, my favorite offline blog editor, [...]

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For most people, blogging is writing for a few minutes a day and going on to their other tasks. I like working on the blog system and tweaking templates and doing custom installs for clients as much as I enjoy the blogging process itself.
I’ve been blogging since 2002. I started on Movable Type and stayed [...]

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I just added about 10 very cool links to a draft post in Wordpress and deleted it by mistake. Where is the undo feature? It’s times like this that I miss Movable Type and Ecto.
You would probably like the flexible OLED screens. As for the rest, you probably knew about Compete’s new API and most [...]

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Took me a while to figure out why Ecto wasn’t downloading posts. turns out Wordpress 2.1 has a bug. Fix via NSLog();

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Ecto is a fantastic blog editing tool. Unfortunately, getting it to work with Wordpress when advanced tools like Ultimate Tag Warrior are involved (for doing many cool things with tags like indexes, clouds, etc.)

This page contains a much-needed tip and links to everything you need to do to get the tri-fecta of Ecto/UTW/WP playing together [...]

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Ecto is a fantastic cross-platform blog editing tool. Makes writing posts incredibly easy compared to web-based tools.
I’m having a continuing problem though which I posted http://bb.infinite-sushi.com/viewtopic.php?t=2045. Never got any reply so I’m trying the Lazyweb.
I checked out the Mac Console today while dragging and dropping images into draft posts and see the following:
DRAGnDROP:
2006-11-07 15:36:17.802 ecto[21933] [...]

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Ecto is my blog writing software of choice on the Mac for a variety of reasons. Yesterday, for some odd reason, it stopped letting me add images to posts. I did remove some languages from OS X to free up some disk space, could this have been the culprit?

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