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releases version 2.0 of DEVONagent, its intelligent Internet research<br />
assistant. It is immediately available for US$ 49.95.</p>
<p>After three months of public beta testing, DEVONagent 2.0 is fast, rock<br />
solid and, of course, now a universal binary. It runs natively on both<br />
PowerPC and Intel processor based Macs. The overall performance on Intel<br />
Macs is up to two times higher than on current PowerPC machines.</p>
<p>DEVONagent 2.0 jumps in where traditional Web search engines don't go<br />
further. Instead of delivering just a list of links, it digs into the<br />
Internet, collects all of the pages and presents the data in a variety of<br />
ways. DEVONagent 2.0's user interface was designed to be easy to use yet<br />
powerful. Unique features such as the interactive topics map (visualizer),<br />
language filters, scanners, actions, and the scheduler make DEVONagent the<br />
most sophisticated way to find information on the Internet.</p>
<p>"DEVONagent adapts to the needs of every individual user and finds exactly<br />
the answers to the questions instead of letting the user digging through<br />
hundreds of links manually," says Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann, President of<br />
DEVONtechnologies. "And with version 2.0 we've made DEVONagent even more<br />
powerful. It's the Mac way of searching the Internet!"</p>
<p>DEVONagent 2.0 comes with a redesigned user interface that is easier to use<br />
and more logically integrated into the complete search workflow. Additional<br />
items like scripts are automatically installed if needed, and a contextual<br />
menu extension inserts a "Search with DEVONagent" item into other<br />
applications' contextual menus. A Dashboard widget gives the user access to<br />
DEVONagent from any application simply by activating the Dashboard. The<br />
documentation has been completely rewritten, and the new icon reflects<br />
DEVONtechnologies' new corporate design.</p>
<p>The most innovative addition to DEVONagent is the AI-based topics map<br />
(visualizer). Based on topics extracted from the pool of found information,<br />
the visualizer dynamically creates a graphical map around a selected topic<br />
word. For each selected topic, DEVONagent 2.0 generates a new map showing<br />
the topic in the center with related topics grouped around it. The size and<br />
color of the "blobs" show the degree of relation and when the user moves<br />
the mouse over them, DEVONagent highlights the most important relations as<br />
darker lines. The topics map directly influences the digest. This summary<br />
of the found textual information refocuses dynamically on any topic the<br />
user selects in the map. "The interactive topics allows our users to<br />
navigate through the pool of found information without drowning," says Eric<br />
Boehnisch-Volkmann, "and the digest presents the actual data from the Web<br />
pages without the user having to visit them. With some 'modern,' flashy Web<br />
sites this would be no fun anyway."</p>
<p>The core search functionality of DEVONagent has been massively enhanced.<br />
Version 2.0 comes with more than 130 hierarchically organized search<br />
plugins that connect it to Web search engines. Plugins cannot only be used<br />
for designing search sets, but are now also separately accessible. In<br />
addition, the user can assign keywords to plugins and use it for a quick<br />
search from the address bar of the built-in Web browser. This effectively<br />
replaces the search toolbar item approach, like Safari's Google search<br />
field, with a much more flexible concept.</p>
<p>Fourteen scanner plugins post-filter found Web pages, e.g, for linked<br />
images, Office documents, thumbnail galleries or desktop pictures. Language<br />
filters for eleven languages and five non-latin writing systems eliminate<br />
Web pages that do not match a selected language, and secondary queries<br />
fine-tune search results if the number of pages returned by a search run is<br />
too large.</p>
<p>The built-in Safari-based Web browser features the long-requested tabbed<br />
browsing, optionally clears all caches and history files after quitting for<br />
privacy, and supports Mac OS X's spell checker and completion. JavaScripts<br />
that try to zoom the window to full screen can be blocked, and the improved<br />
download manager is now able to start and stop the queue at any time, and<br />
is more compatible with certain forwarders.</p>
<p>Finally, DEVONagent 2.0 comes with greatly enhanced automation features and<br />
an expanded AppleScript dictionary. Scheduler and actions have been<br />
separated, and actions can now be attached to every search set, not only to<br />
scheduled sets. Actions can be executed after each search run. Actions<br />
include: bouncing the Dock icon, zooming and bringing the search window to<br />
the front, archiving the results or adding them to DEVONthink, playing a<br />
sound, speaking a text, sending a digest by e-mail to a given address, or<br />
executing an AppleScript script. DEVONagent 2.0 comes with pre-made scripts<br />
that e.g., notify the user via Growl when a search run is done, present the<br />
found pages as RSS feed or speak the titles of the found pages. Automator<br />
actions let even non-experienced users create simple workflows.</p>
<p>Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann: "All these new features, from the interactive<br />
topics map, the more than 130 new plugins, the language filters, and the<br />
improvements to the built-in Web browser, to the new, flexible automation<br />
options including actions, AppleScript, Automator and the scheduler, make<br />
DEVONagent a real information agent. It collects exactly the information<br />
the user is looking for and provides a large number of flexible options to<br />
process them in any possible way. That's why we originally named it<br />
'agent'. It's a must-have for everyone who needs to find information on the<br />
Web effectively."</p>
<p>DEVONagent 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger". A fast<br />
Internet connection is strongly recommended. DEVONagent 2.0 is immediately<br />
available as a free download from <a href="http://www.devon-technologies.com" title="www.devon-technologies.com">www.devon-technologies.com</a>. It must be<br />
purchased for US$ 49.95 after the evaluation period of 60 hours of<br />
non-continuous runtime. Registered users are entitled to upgrade for US$<br />
19.95. DEVONagent is also available together with DEVONthink Professional<br />
as the "Infoworker's Pro Bundle" for US$ 99.95.</p>
<p>The knowledge of mankind doubles every one to two years, speed increasing.<br />
How to cope with this unbelievable huge mass of data? How to find that very<br />
document one is looking for? How to find the answer to a question?</p>
<p>DEVONagent is the solution for those who are tired of clicking hundreds of<br />
links delivered by Google & Co. just to find out that most of the links are<br />
either outdated, broken or lead to junk pages. It communicates with search<br />
engines, digs through all the results and presents only those documents<br />
that are really worth reading. Also, it summarizes the accumulated<br />
knowledge and make it available as a list of the most important topics and<br />
an interactive mind map. Finding information on the Web has never been<br />
easier!</p>
<p>DEVONagent finds, collects and organizes information with a powerful search<br />
architecture, a simple to use built-in archive and perfect integration with<br />
DEVONthink. More than 130 plugins for popular search engines, databases and<br />
search tools, predefined search sets, and a clean Mac-like user interface<br />
make DEVONagent the number one tool for finding information on the web for<br />
the Mac.</p>
<p>DEVONthink companion: DEVONagent can send search results as plain or rich<br />
text, web archive or as PDF directly to a DEVONthink database with just one<br />
click and from any view. Then, one can use DEVONthink's intelligence to<br />
organize it.</p>
<p>CORPORATE BACKGROUND</p>
<p>DEVONtechnologies LLC, founded in 2002, incorporated in 2004 and<br />
headquartered in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA, 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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