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Get ecto for 20% off
by Marc Perton Dec 22nd 2005 at 9:01PM
If you're into heavy-duty blogging, there's one piece of advice that may stand above all others (well, other than the
old tip to avoid blogging about your job if you want to stay employed): work offline. There's nothing more frustrating
than spilling your guts in an entry only to have it fall victim to a sudden Firefox hiccup. And, while there are quite
a few decent offline editors, ecto is, without a doubt, one of the best. It's cross-platform, works with most popular
blogging platforms including Blogger, Movable Type and WordPress, and it's now available for 20% off (from Friday
through Monday only). That's $14.36, instead of the usual (and eminently reasonable) $17.95. At that price, you can't
afford not to work offline.[Via TUAW]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Blue_Chi said 8:11AM on 12-23-2005
I'm going to try this one out! Thanks for telling us about the offer.
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5m0k3 said 5:24PM on 12-23-2005
While Ecto is a great blogging program, you can view a list, though not comprehensive, of some of the other most useful blogging utilities here: http://techblaster.blogspot.com/2005/12/blogging-tools.htmlWhile Ecto is a great blogging program, you can view a list, though not comprehensive, of some of the other most useful blogging utilities here: http://techblaster.blogspot.com/2005/12/blogging-tools.html
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