Quick Look: Mac OS X Desktop Blog Authoring Clients

It supports multiple blogs and works with most blogging services including Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, and Movable Type to name a few.Features include drafts, category keywords, web preview templates, spell-checking, live preview, Technorati tags, automatic blog search engine pinging, image and file uploads and external editors….  Ecto supports most blogging services including Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, and WordPress, as well as others.Features include support for multiple weblogs, full local control of recently posted entries and drafts, intuitive interface for creating and editing weblog entries, a Rich Text and an HTML editor with spellcheck and search/replace, syntax-coloring in the HTML editor, quick access menu with HTML tag templates and keyboard shortcuts for the HTML editor (fully customizable), categories, trackback, text-formatting, comment options, Technorati tags, advanced create-a-link dialog, easily change the posting date of entries, preview of entries using Safari’s WebKit, powerful file and media upload with iPhoto import via attachments, convert, scale images and create thumbnails, create poster movies or create thumbnails from movie frames, plus much more.Ecto 2.4.2 is very powerful….  These supported blogging services include LiveJournal, Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, and more.Features include 2-D Quartz rendering technology making graphically rich journals, nested, multiple journals and entry keywords, efficiently organizing your entries (have one for your work log, and have another for your personal journal), password protection and AES-256 encryption, multiple file formats (exporting your data to Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML, etc.), drag and drop of image files, Rich Text Editing (individual entries can have multiple colors, fonts, kerning, spacing), powerful searching capabilities, print any entry to a printer or PDF file, Mac OS X Toolbar functions are available as items in the customizable toolbar in the main window, spellcheck while composing entries, and backs up any and all activity within the product.

Quick Look: Movie - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I’ve never read any of the Harry Potter books and I’ve only seen a few of the movies, mostly after they’ve come out on DVD.  During this recent wedding weekend there was time to kill on Saturday so my daughter and her friend convinced me to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.I must say, this is the best Harry Potter movie….  It kept my attention and interest in the story…I didn’t look at my watch once.There’s a good bit of violence and suspense, so the PG-13 might be a good guide.

Quick Look: Movies - Ratatouille and Transformers

If you want to take your young kids to a movie you can all enjoy without being worried that there will be scenes that are inappropriate for them, this is it….  I didn’t check my watch once during Ratatouille, highly recommended.Transformers - Rated PG-13: First let me say that the special effects were very good, actually maybe too good.  By that I mean the Transformer Robots were so detailed that when the fast action scenes were taking place it all seemed busy and confusing to the point of losing impact.

Quick Look: Bad Sinatra

After a few hours sleep here are my initial thoughts on it: Overall, interesting first effort.It was too long. I found myself looking to see how much time was left.  I’d suggest shortening them to 20 minutes maximum and saving the remainder for the next episode….  Some type of Sinatra theme segue between the video sections, perhaps with names/locations would be a welcome addition for the viewers.

Quick Look: Nisus Writer Pro

On top of the feature that Writer Express had the Pro version has added: Table of ContentsIndexingBookmarksCross ReferencesAttribute Sensitive SearchText Wrap Around ImagesLine NumberingWindow and Orphan ControlExtended MacrosEnhanced Note StylesGlossariesand moreIf you want to compare Writer Express and the Writer Pro products, Nisus provides a handy chart for feature comparison.A huge consideration in selecting a main office application is what formats can it read and write documents in. If you have friends or colleges that use MS Windows or other word processors on a Mac or Linux you can probably exchange documents with them with no problems.  Below are the formats that the Writer Pro can read/write documents in:As you can see, Rich Text Format is the preferred format, for both Writer Express and Pro.  Rich Text Format is somewhat a universal format for written documents and is support by almost all word processors.You can often learn a great deal about an application by looking at it’s preferences.

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