DEVONagent Express
Web search from the menu bar.
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 DEVONagent Express
This release brings many fixes and improvements, including support for Apple Silicon Macs. Lastly, we included many fixes and improvements in performance and reliability.
NEW
- Added support for Apple Silicon Macs.
Improved
- A
filetype:operator can be added to a search if it's supported by the search engine, e.g., Google. - Improved the HTML-to-text conversion in case of websites containing all text inside
NOSCRIPTtags, e.g., our Discourse forum. - The default encoding is now UTF-8 when none is specified by the site.
- Updated plugins: Web, Computer Science > ACM Digital Library, References > Internet Public Library, References > SEC.
- Updated Search Sets: Marketing.
- Improvements to the HTML parser enhances processes like improved scanner compatibility with websites loading images dynamically.
- Background tasks now support automatic graphics switching, potentially increasing the battery life on dual GPU MacBooks.
- Sending bug reports via MailMate is now supported.
- Improved the application registration mechanism.
- Improved overall reliability.
Fixed
- Certain Atom-based RSS feeds were incompatible. Fixed.
- Rare search engine issue. Fixed.
- The shortcut control in Preferences wasn't working properly. Fixed.
Removed
- Removed plugins: Bing.
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