Web search from the menu bar. Demo ($4.95)
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DEVONagent Express 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
Your search assistant: While the 'express' mode just collects the results
What's New
Version 3.8:
New
- Shopping > Amazon plug-in.
- Recently used submenu for quick access to recently used plugins and search sets.
- Support for JSON-based plugins.
- Menu extra shows "No results" instead of giving no feedback in case of no results.
- Expansion tooltips of menu extra results wrap too longs titles instead of truncating them.
- Recent searches appear in a submenu of the menu extra.
- Inactive results in the menu extra are easier recognizable.
- Search results support VoiceOver.
- Plugins updated: Apple Cocoa-Dev, DEVONtech Forum, Facebook Profiles, FDA, FindLaw, Google Patents Search, Google Scholar (Articles), Google Scholar (Legal opinions and journals), Gutenberg.org, Healthfinder.gov, Images, Info (Images), Poetry, RocketNews, US Patent Office, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Yahoo News, and Yandex.
- Plugin Koders Code Search becomes Ohloh Code Search, FirstGov becomes USA.gov.
- Linked Audio Files and Linked Video Files scanners support certain JavaScript links; Tubes scanner supports JSON.
- Marketing default search set updated.
- Support for Yahoo.
- Support for news feeds.
- Filtering of links to cached results and to social bookmarking and social networking sites.
- Localizations.
- Obsolete plugins: Exalead, Google Government, Googlism, Scinet, Scirus, Usenet Groups, and Webshots.
- Deprecated plugin key "ReformatPreformattedText".
Version 3.8:
New
- Shopping > Amazon plug-in.
- Recently used submenu for quick access to recently used plugins and search sets.
- Support for JSON-based plugins.
- Menu extra shows "No results" instead of giving no feedback in case of no results.
- Expansion tooltips of more...
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.6.8 or later
Intel, OS X 10.6.8 or later
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| Downloads:3,173 |
| Version Downloads:114 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Demo |
| Date:17 Apr 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $4.95 |
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DEVONagent Express 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.
What DEVONagent Express does for you:
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.
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
- 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
- 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)
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June8 reviewed on 26 Mar 2013
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Funjoy reviewed on 15 Jan 2012
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I have found the App Store to be so unlike anything the Steve Jobs envisioned or even a representative as an Apple product. This is not the first time that the App Store has been a problem for me, plus the last time I e-mailed them for support online, with the online acknowledgement that my e-mail was received, I never received a reply from the the App Store.
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The App Store is no different than any other means of distributing commercial software, and IMO the only people that will complain about it are probably not going to pay for shareware anyway.
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Wanna test it before buy it.
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PRjohnson rated on 02 Oct 2013
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