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Version 3.4 This release updates a number of search sets, plugins, and scanners, and no longer excludes Amazon, Dell, and eBay by default. This version is also slightly faster and more reliable. This update is recommended for all users. New: New search set Macintosh News (More) demonstrates the new search possibilities of search sets. Improved: Search set Macintosh News renamed to Macintosh News (Latest). Apple (Feeds), Macintosh News (Later), Marketing, and New Software default search sets. Images & Videos > Infos (Videos) and Legal > Google Scholar (Legal opinions & journals) plugins. Thumbnail Galleries and Tube scanners more reliable; the Tube scanner is again compatible to YouTube. Amazon, Dell and eBay aren't excluded by default anymore. Localized sorting of most views. HTML/XML encoding support. Sparkle framework updated. Reliability and performance. Memory management. Fixed: Plugin Blogs > Google Blog Search. Minor glitches. Removed: Obsolete plugin Apple > Macintosh News. Version 3.3 This maintenance release adds compatibility to OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion", adds sandboxing for the App Store variants, and fixes a number of minor issues. It also adds new plugins.
Note: Starting with this release DEVONagent Express requires OS X 10.6.8 or later.
New: Plugin Legal > Google Scholar searching for legal opinions and journals. App Store variant is sandboxed. Improved: Compatibility to OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion". 64 bit support. High-resolution application icon for Retina displays. Search set Marketing updated. Google plugins updated and simplified. Plugin Google Scholar renamed to Google Scholar (Articles). Plugin Discussion Lists > Usenet Groups for reliability in Agent mode. Tube scanner. Wikipedia plugin. Retrieval of link descriptions, e.g. in Express mode. Support for Google plugins, e.g. caching of previews. Handling of URLs containing pseudo-anchors. Compatibility to Text Expander. French localization. Memory usage reduced. Overall performance and memory management. Fixed: Dates older than Jan 1, 2001 were not used. Further minor bugs and issues. Version 3.2 This maintenance release updates a number of plugins, improves the help integration, and fixes a number of minor issues. This update also adds a new Welcome Assistant and makes it possible to download DEVONagent Express as a trial version from the DEVONtechnologies website and use it with a valid Mac App Store receipt. DEVONagent Express or higher: NEW: DEVONagent Express can now also be downloaded as trial copy from the DEVONtechnologies website. NEW: Welcome Assistant is displayed after launching the application for the first time. Also accessible via Help > Welcome. Improved: Retrieval of titles and descriptions for links, e.g. for the results of the Facebook Profiles plugin. Improved: Updated plugins: Medical > PubMed, Images & Videos > Webshots, and Images & Videos > Picsearch. Improved: Updated Tube scanner. Improved: Animated frame changes of tooltip of menu extra results. Fixed: Rare issue of search engine returning too many results in case of complex queries. All editions: Improved: Plugin Patents > Google Patents Search updated. Improved: Help integration. Improved: Overall performance and stability. Fixed: Cursor is now an arrow instead of an I-beam over popup and clear buttons of search fields. Version 3.1.2 This update is a maintenance update that brings support for Google Chrome bookmarks, can generate preview thumbnails via Thumbshots.com, opens the menu extra also in OS X 10.7 Lion's fullscreen mode (via the hotkey), and fixes a number of minor bugs and glitches. DEVONagent Express or higher: NEW: Support for Google Chrome bookmarks. NEW: Thumbnails can alternatively be generated via Thumbshots.com (faster but lower quality). [Read more...] Improved: Marketing default search set. Improved: Thumbnail Gallery scanner. All editions: NEW: The menu can be shown in OS X 10.7 Lion's fullscreen mode by pressing the hotkey. Improved: Updated References > SEC plugin. Improved: French localization. Improved: About and splash panels. Fixed: Action menu font. Fixed: Minor interface glitches. Version 3.1.1 DEVONagent Pro: NEW: Scripts > Window > Open Last Safari session opens last Safari session. NEW: Search windows display number of unread results in upper right corner. NEW: Names of plugins can be used as "Mozilla keywords" in browser window address bar. Improved: Slightly revised scanner popup menus. Improved: See Also results for new DEVONtechnologies website and apple.com. Improved: Embedded Multimedia scanner renamed to Tubes. Improved: Revised and completed German and French localizations of description of scanners. Fixed: See Also pane listed sometimes related websites twice. Fixed: Automator actions compatible to OS X 10.7 Lion and DEVONthink Pro (Office) 2.x. Fixed: Issues with handling of saved searches. Fixed: Some menu items were not disabled in OS X Lion's fullscreen mode. Fixed: Support Assistant updated for new DEVONtechnologies website. Fixed: Support Assistant did no longer show tutorials. DEVONagent Express or higher: Improved: DEVONtech Forum, Googlism, PubMed, Twitter, and Wiktionary plugins updated. Improved: Wallpaper, Thumbnail Gallery, and Tubes scanners. Improved: Filtering of links to login pages or social bookmarking. Fixed: Various glitches of Preferences, Menu Extra tab. Fixed: Memory leak of Wallpaper scanner. All editions: NEW: Search fields support also keywords and names of plugins as well as names of search sets followed by a colon, e.g. "google:term" or "marketing:apple", to easily switch the current plugin/search set. Improved: Tooltips of popup menus of search fields include keywords, too. Improved: Name of application added to title of Preferences panel. Improved: Links updated for new DEVONtechnologies website. Fixed: Various other minor bugs and glitches. Version 3.1 DEVONagent Express or higher: NEW: Several additional symbols ($€£¥%§) are now supported for searching for price or legal information. Improved: More reliable Webcam, Embedded Multimedia, Thumbnail Gallery, and Wallpaper scanners. Improved: Marketing and Apple (Feeds) search sets. Improved: Embedded Multimedia and Linked Video scanners recognize .f4v files. Improved: Thumbnail Gallery scanner. Improved: Advertising filter. Improved: Similar Pages filters now only pages without any additional, unique objects if a scanner is selected. Improved: Filtering of links to cached pages. Improved: Higher quality of icon previews for Facebook profiles. Improved: Default settings for some search sets. Improved: Handling of redirect/forward patterns. Improved: Compatibility of RSS parser to buggy feeds. Improved: Handling of storages used by background processes. Fixed: Various issues of handling of [range] wildcards. Fixed: Embedded Multimedia scanner is again compatible to YouTube. All editions: Improved: DEVONtech Forum plugin. Improved: Reliability, performance, and memory management. Fixed: Further minor bugs and glitches.
Note: Characters separated by dots are now considered to be abbreviations and therefore handled like words separated by hyphens, e.g. the term a.b.c is equal to "a b c" OR abc and matches a b c, a.b.c, abc, a-b-c etc.
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