DEVONagent Express

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)

This maintenance release addresses a sporadic crash some users had when accessing the Preferences panel on macOS Mojave, as well as some visual artifacts in the interface. We have also added support for JSON RSS feeds and improved handling of RSS feeds in general. Overall reliability has been the primary focus of this release.

NEW

• Added support for JSON RSS feeds.

Improved

• Updated plugins: Government > USA.gov, References > SEC.
• Improved handling of untitled RSS feed items.
• Improved overall performance and reliability.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where opening the License panel could stall the application when a network connection was not available or reliable.
• Fixed an issue where an alert was not displayed after entering an incorrect license code.
• Fixed a crash and incomplete display of the window when accessing the Preferences panel (macOS Mojave).