{"id":47,"date":"2005-07-08T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2005-07-10T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T02:16:41","slug":"be-a-blog-author-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/be-a-blog-author-on-a-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Blog Author Using Your Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PCWorld<\/a> has a nice article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,121017,00.asp\"><i>Mac Skeptic: Be a Blog Author<\/i><\/a>) on various different applications available to post stuff to your own blog. The author compared the big four: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/marsedit\/\" target=\"_blank\">MarsEdit<\/a> ($24.95)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecto.kung-foo.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecto<\/a> ($17.95)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bradrhine.com\/freq\" target=\"_blank\">Frequency<\/a> ($19)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlehj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlogWave Studio<\/a> ($20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She ended up picking Ecto as her top choice, which is what I would have chosen given that it packs more useful features than the other ones. What&#8217;s especially nice is its integration to iPhoto. But I see the apps as something I&#8217;d use when I don&#8217;t have Internet access. Otherwise, using WordPress&#8217; interface is still my weapon of choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Based on the recommendation made in the comment, I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/orderedlist.com\/wordpress-plugins\/wp-tiger-administration\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">WP Tiger Administration<\/a> plugin (FREE). See my entry about the plugin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=51\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCWorld has a nice article (Mac Skeptic: Be a Blog Author) on various different applications available to post stuff to your own blog. The author compared the big four: MarsEdit ($24.95) Ecto ($17.95) Frequency ($19) BlogWave Studio ($20) She ended up picking Ecto as her top choice, which is what I would have chosen given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/be-a-blog-author-on-a-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be a Blog Author Using Your Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-blogging","category-geek-stuff","category-mac-osx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}