Recently I posted a link to Mac’s Journal review of Qumana, a desktop blogging client. This week, he’s posted an indepth review of Ecto, another popular client. Further details are on the blog, including some clarifications on errors he experienced with a previous version of the app. More and more of these clients seem to be useful, and with inline tagging for apps like Ultimate Tag Warrior, they may prove to be even more functional.
Offers a complete review of the Windows blogging client BlogDesk. (since I don’t really use my Windows box for any blogging, I must say I didn’t pay close attention to the post, but I often see bloggers on the quest for the holy grail of blogging clients, so I thought I’d pass it on 
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Another in their line of customizing WP series, this one addresses the issue of multiple loops. Though there a several ways to tackle the issue, one who’s not a coder at heart can never have enough resources and input on the subject.
A beautiful theme, featuring a single column, with the “big footer” or bottom sidebar as some may call it. Lots of whitespace, pleasing colors, a generally good addition to the theme community. Also supports several plugins, including del.icio.us cached and related entries.
Nice feature is a small arrow at the top to take the visitor to the bottom content area.
Warning though, site is in Spanish, but download link is easily identifiable.
Update:Not only is the site in Spanish, but the theme is too. I really like this theme, and will be looking at translating it to English.
Solostream Small Business Blog
A WP 2.0 3 column theme, with several built in features, such as user color scheme changing, a featured post, and built in del.icio.us support.
This could be quite the handy plugin, though I haven’t tried it yet. How often do you forget to uncheck the default category when posting? Especially if you have a lot of categories. This one will do just that. Great idea, and surprised that it hasn’t been thought of before.
It was announced yesterday that you can now register for an API key at wordpress.com without creating a blog. With the recent wave of spam I’ve read about, this might move a few to go ahead and use Akismet along with SK2 and Bad Behavior.
Broken Kode
Announced last week that Shuttle was “launched”, and subsequently the WP community was in a sea of posts recanting the “launch” of a new admin interface for WP. The truth of the matter is, there isn’t any code, from what I’ve read, purely some images, and some Photoshop files. There also seems to be mulitiple versions, and a split within the team that developed it. So the truth of the matter is yes, a lot of time and energy was put into mocking up a better interface, but much more work will be required before it truly is launched. I wouldn’t expect to see any of this in 2.1, and I’m not even sure what the roadmap looks like from there.
An updated AJAX based “shoutbox” that protects against spam by filtering through Spam Karma 2.
MuTube
A handy plugin that seems to leverage some free technology to allow visitors to send SMS text message directly to your phone from your blog. Not sure of spam protection, and unless you have unlimited text messages in your plan, it could turn out to be an expensive plugin, but nifty use of technology to say the least.