Very cool! I just put a list of my current iTunes on my page. It shows the currently playing song (if playing) and the last 5 (or whatever). I want the same on my laptop and then they’ll have to duke it out for the “current song”.

Thanks to Kung-Tunes for the tool to do this… They are also the author of the Ecto (formerly Kung-Log) for posting you your blog.

And way at the bottom of the same column is a link to the weekly free tune from Apple.

I’d love it if Apple had a better way to link back to the iTunes site by author (without having to do it manually with their link maker).

LATER: I’m not doing it this way at this time

Remember when I mentioned Kung-Log a while back? Well, now the first public beta of Ecto is out.

Us poor Mac people don’t even have the formatting toolbar when editing our Movable Type. But now we (and other brand bloggers) have this excellent editor for OS X! Create thumbnails, edit different blogs, easily use categories, post drafts, customize your own HTML commands, save drafts on the hard drive (if not on-line) and edit (yes, I said edit) previous posts and it has a spell check. It’s really great if you like to blog. It’ll even use your CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) to show you the previews!

There seems to be some issues with editing Movable Type posts on a Macintosh, it doesn’t show you the formatting tools (bold, italics, underline, links). Well even if it did, you’d still want this software tool, it’s called Ecto (formerly Kung-Log) (for OS X) and it lets you do all that and more. Create thumbnails, different blogs, categoris, post drafts, customize your own HTML commands, save drafts on the hard drive (if not on-line) and edit (yes, I said edit) previous posts and it has a spell check.

This version requires MacOS 10.2 or higher and either a MovableType installation of version 2.6 or higher, Nucleus 1.55 or higher, or any weblog system supporting the MovableType, MetaWeblog and/or Blogger API.