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<p>THIRD OF FOUR: DEVONAGENT 1.5 (AND DEVONTHINK 1.9.2)</p>
<p>London (UK, European Union), 2nd of February, 2005 -- DEVONtechnologies<br />
Ltd. releases version 1.5 of its Internet research tool DEVONagent. Also,<br />
it updates DEVONthink Personal Edition to version 1.9.2.</p>
<p>DEVONagent 1.5, DEVONthink's research companion, is the first major update<br />
for almost a year and so it comes with a huge list of new features,<br />
improvements and, of course, some bugfixes. First of all, the user<br />
interface has been revamped to make web research much easier than in<br />
previous versions, and includes a simplified search window similar to<br />
iTunes. The preferences dialog window has been simplified, a pop-up menu<br />
gives direct access to search settings and a new search set editor allows<br />
to comfortable define and manage sets of all parameters that define where<br />
and how to search. Sets can be added, edited, saved and exported.</p>
<p>Search sets contain now both, a list of websites to scan and a list of all<br />
plug-ins that are queried when using the set, and can contain HTML pages as<br />
well as RSS/RDF/RSD/Atom newsfeeds. Plug-ins are interfaces between<br />
DEVONagent and one or more search engines and are either Cocoa- or<br />
XML-based. Users can even write their own XML-based plug-ins for<br />
integrating specialized search engines. DEVONagent comes with nearly fifty<br />
new or heavily improved plug-ins for querying almost every major search<br />
engine and a very robust parser that handles almost every known HTML bug.</p>
<p>A brand new feature of DEVONagent 1.5 are scheduled search runs, which make<br />
DEVONagent a real "search agent". The scheduler can automatically send<br />
e-mails with a summary of all new information, creating a personalized,<br />
customized newsletter. DEVONagent uses the UNIX "cron" command for its<br />
scheduler and doesn not need system extensions or background applications.</p>
<p>DEVONagent 1.5 also comes with an enhanced web browser tailored especially<br />
for the needs of Internet researchers. Tight integration with DEVONagent's<br />
built-in intelligence allows it to show related results using a "see also"<br />
button similar to the well-known function of DEVONthink, and a new<br />
"Objects" drawer gives direct access to selected page elements like all<br />
links to RSS feeds, e-mail links, images or linked multimedia files.<br />
DEVONagent features fifteen so-called "scanners" that filter elements of a<br />
certain kind out of web pages.</p>
<p>To make DEVONagent a real "researcher's alternative" to established web<br />
browsers, version 1.5 has its own download manager, mirrors the bookmark<br />
lists of Safari, Camino, Firefox and OmniWeb, and fully supports RSS, RDF,<br />
RSD and Atom newsfeeds (like Safari 2.0 which will be part of Mac OS X 10.4<br />
"Tiger"). A full-screen mode makes intensive research more comfortable.</p>
<p>On the integration side, DEVONagent directly connects to DEVONthink for<br />
one-click-archiving data as full HTML pages, links, rich text or PDF<br />
document. PDFs from web pages are not generated using the print function.<br />
Instead, the whole web page is stored as one single long page to prevent<br />
unnecessary page breaks. DEVONagent 1.5 supports OPML for importing<br />
bookmarks from OPML-compliant applications (e.g. newsreaders, outliners and<br />
the forthcoming DEVONthink Professional), and AppleScript (similar to<br />
Safari) for integrating with third-party applications and workflows. A<br />
script menu gives direct access to commonly used scripts, six useful<br />
example scripts are already included, e.g. for downloading linked JPEG<br />
images or sending URLs by e-mail.</p>
<p>As always, DEVONagent 1.5 is significantly faster than its predecessor and<br />
almost every detail both internally and in the user interface has been<br />
overhauled. It is already based on the next revision of the DEVONtechnology<br />
core.</p>
<p>DEVONthink 1.9.2 is a maintenance release that adds a new option to open<br />
groups within the current window, support for DEVONagent 1.5 and a few more<br />
QuickTime, XML and plain text file formats. Also, it brings many internal<br />
enhancements and kills a few bugs.</p>
<p>DEVONagent 1.5 and DEVONthink 1.9.2 require Mac OS X 10.2.7 or Mac OS X<br />
10.3, a fast Internet connection is strongly recommended for DEVONagent.<br />
Both are immediately available as a free download from<br />
<a href="http://www.devon-technologies.com" title="www.devon-technologies.com">www.devon-technologies.com</a> and must be purchased in DEVONtechnologies'<br />
online shop for US$ 35 (DEVONagent) or US$ 40 (DEVONthink Personal Edition)<br />
after the evaluation period. They are also available as "Infoworker's<br />
Bundle" for US$ 65.</p>
<p>Contact details for your readers:<br />
E-Mail <a href="mailto:info@devon-technologies.com">info@devon-technologies.com</a>, Internet <a href="http://www.devon-technologies.com" title="www.devon-technologies.com">www.devon-technologies.com</a></p>
<p>BACKGROUND: DEVONAGENT</p>
<p>DEVONagent overcomes all the shortcomings that make Google & Co. such a<br />
pain for serious research. More than 50 plug-ins for search engines,<br />
scientific databases and research tools, predefined search sets you can use<br />
right away and a clean, easy to use user interface make DEVONagent the #1<br />
tool for finding information on the web for the Mac.</p>
<p>DEVONagent is much more than just an interface for web search engines. It<br />
helps you</p>
<p>- searching,<br />
- collecting and<br />
- organizing</p>
<p>information with a powerful and flexible search architecture, a simple to<br />
use built-in archive and perfect integration with DEVONthink. DEVONagent<br />
creates perfectly tailored summaries, acts as a fast and lean web browser,<br />
supports news feeds like RSS and shows all items of interest in a separate<br />
drawer. It can't be easier to look for information on the web.</p>
<p>Key features:</p>
<p>Collects, analyzes weights and summarizes search results from all major<br />
Internet search engines. Eliminates junk, similar, archived or error pages<br />
on-the-fly and looks for specific types of data, e.g. webcams, multimedia<br />
files, downloadable archives, e-mail addresses or links on demand.</p>
<p>A scheduler allows to run predefined queries completely unattended and to<br />
execute a series of actions like archive in DEVONagent or DEVONthink, send<br />
an e-mail or speak a text.</p>
<p>The integrated web browser based on the Safari engine is especially<br />
tailored at the needs of web researchers. Access all your Camino, Firefox,<br />
OmniWeb and Safari bookmarks, filter out e-mail addresses, images or linked<br />
files with just one click and compare the results of a search run using A.I.</p>
<p>DEVONagent is able to scan RSS, RDF, RSD and Atom feeds. In addition, the<br />
integrated web browser converts such feeds on-the-fly to HTML and presents<br />
them similar to Safari 2.0.</p>
<p>Presents the result of the search run in human-readable format as digest,<br />
dynamically assembled to selected topics. Found search words are<br />
automatically highlighted and texts summarized.</p>
<p>An easy-to-use but powerful web page archive allows you to organize and<br />
search stored pages.</p>
<p>DEVONagent is built on a flexible and extensible plug-in architecture that<br />
allows to query a great variety of search engines and write new plug-ins at<br />
ease. Also, DEVONagent automatically scans your favorite web pages for news<br />
and follows promising links.</p>
<p>DEVONagent features a clean, intuitive user interface and full AppleScript<br />
integration. Like all DEVONtechnologies applications, DEVONagent is built<br />
to seamlessly integrate with Mac OS X and supports services or<br />
drag-and-drop and provides a Dock menu.</p>
<p>BACKGROUND: DEVONTHINK</p>
<p>DEVONthink is the Mac incarnation of the real paperless office. It's a<br />
notepad, outliner, scrapbook manager, information manager, freeform<br />
database, archive, bookmark manager and image and multimedia database, all<br />
in one integrated application. DEVONthink intelligently stores and helps<br />
organizing all types of data, text files, PDFs, images, bookmarks, even<br />
QuickTime movies and MP3 files. A hierarchical filing structure and AI<br />
functions for sorting in and finding documents makes it ideal for both<br />
keeping a simple notebook and organizing large information collections.</p>
<p>An integrated text and RTF editor including a real-time<br />
paragraph/word/character count and many other comfortable editing and<br />
highlighting functions make it easy to not only enter short notes but to<br />
write letters, articles, even books. Finally, the integrated Safari-based<br />
web browser displays web pages directly within the DEVONthink workspace,<br />
e-mails can be comfortably imported using a provided AppleScript and all<br />
documents that DEVONthink does not natively recognize can be "printed"<br />
directly into the database from any other application.</p>
<p>People use DEVONthink to</p>
<p>- collect text snippets, documents, images, PDF or movies, bookmarks,<br />
- archive their e-mails,<br />
- write new documents,<br />
- organize all of them,<br />
- create links between them,<br />
- find that "needle in the haystack",<br />
- and surf the Internet.</p>
<p>DEVONthink provides the main features of many standard applications such as<br />
- Dynamic Wiki-style links and static cross links<br />
- Built-in outlining capabilities<br />
- Easy-to-use interface providing Services and a Dock menu<br />
- Supports Services (like CalcService or WordService)<br />
- Supports drag-and-drop in both directions</p>
<p>What's unique:</p>
<p>- Im- and exports Finder comments<br />
- Captures contents from the built-in browser or from Safari<br />
- Imports e-mails from Apple Mail<br />
- Plays QuickTime movies and MP3 files<br />
- Stores aliases to local files<br />
- Groups or ungroups documents, organizes them into hierarchies<br />
- Works with much more file formats than all alternatives<br />
- Batch imports and exports data extremely fast<br />
- Works flawlessly with huge databases ()300 MB)<br />
- Does not need indexing but searches faster than the competition<br />
- Uses all major features of Mac OS X</p>
<p>CORPORATE BACKGROUND</p>
<p>DEVONtechnologies Ltd., founded in 2002, incorporated in 2004 and<br />
headquartered in London, UK, European Union, researches in the field of<br />
semantic and associative data analysis and synthesis, and develops key<br />
applications based on the DEVONtechnology. Named after the Devonian Period,<br />
the DEVONtechnology marks the departure into a new age of data processing.<br />
The main focus of all activities is clearly on using the robust, flexible<br />
and versatile architecture intelligently to create rock-solid applications<br />
for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to databases,<br />
intelligent agents, data-mining, information retrieval and<br />
human-computer-interfaces. More information: <a href="http://www.devon-technologies.com" title="www.devon-technologies.com">www.devon-technologies.com</a>.</p>
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