DEVONagent Express overview
DEVONagent Express (based on DEVONsphere) brings Web search directly to your menu bar. Just like Spotlight searches your computer, DEVONagent Express searches the Web and presents the results directly in its menu. A great selection of top-notch search engines and large tool tips with preview pictures and summaries let you find the right page before you open it in your Web browser. You can even query all three major Web search engines all at the same time or use pre-fab collections such as a thumbnail gallery search set.
Your search assistant: While the 'express' mode just collects the results the 'agent' mode does a lot more for you in the background. It downloads each page, filters advertisements, error pages as well as pages that don't fit your question, and applies its own ranking. No more Error 404 pages, no more pages that have nothing to do with your search at all.
Features
- What DEVONagent Express does for you:
- Let's you search the Web as easy as using Spotlight
- Shows convenient summaries and preview pictures
- Filters advertisements and error pages
- Gives you only really relevant results back
- Talks to more than 80 general-purpose and specialized search engines
- Perfectly integrated and easy to use:
- Located directly in the menu bar, always there when you need it
- Opens results in your Web browser or DEVONagent (if available)
- You already know how to use it
- Accessible by pressing a hotkey
- Supported search engines categories:
- General purpose
- Apple- and Mac-related (e.g., App Store, MacUpdate)
- Blogs
- Computer science
- Dictionaries (e.g., Wiktionary)
- Directories
- Educational resources
- Government
- Images and videos (e.g., YouTube, Flickr)
- Legal
- News
- Patents
- References (e.g., Wikipedia)
- Science
- Social networking (e.g., Facebook profiles, Twitter)
What’s new in version 3.11.6
Updated on Sep 22 2022
This maintenance release has many under-the-hood technical improvements. Several plugins have been updated, including the JSTOR plugin, and the Linked Documents scanner now finds also EPUB and Kindle files. DEVONagent Express also better handles and traverses links in RSS feeds. The release, of course, also improves the overall stability and performance.
Note: Starting with version 3.11.6, DEVONagent Express requires macOS 10.14 Mojave or later.
Improved:
- Updated plugins: Apple > App Store, References > JSTOR, Images & Video > Google Video, and Images & Video > YouTube.
- Searching for documents now also looks for EPUB and Kindle files.
- Improved parsing of Google results.
- Improved retrieving the title of HTML pages and feeds.
- Improved overall reliability of thumbnailing of web pages.
- Improved filtering of advertisements.
- Improved overall performance and reliability.
Fixed:
- Brave bookmarks didn't work. Fixed.
- The default order of search sets wasn't sorted correctly. Fixed.
Removed:
- Removed Twitter plugin as it's no longer supported on the latest versions of macOS.
Information
App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- macOS 10.14.0 or later
