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Application Icon   List of Plugins

Technically, plugins are collections of URLs and procedures that DEVONagent Lite uses to access search engines on the Web. They are either written in Cocoa or in human-readable XML (plain text with special syntax). In addition to simple HTML queries, DEVONagent Lite also supports and analyzes Atom, RSS, and JSON feeds.

Note: Some sites need a valid log-in. If you want to query these sites with a plugin, you need to enable cookies and manually log in with your web browser in advance. When you use DEVONagent Lite, the websites then will recognize you as a returning user. You will find a note in the plugin description if a site requires a log-in.

Search

Note: DEVONagent Lite presents this category separately in its menu, above the other plugins to make them more easily accessible.

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    Baidu: Searches the web using Baidu.
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    DuckDuckGo: Searches the web using DuckDuckGo, a search engine that claims that it doesn't track its users and delivers unbiased results (see also: filter bubble).
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    Google: Searches the web using Google. Google is famous for ranking websites by the number of other sites linking to it. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine.
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    Google (PDF): Searches for PDFs using Google.
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    Qwant: Searches the web using Qwant, a search engine that, like DuckDuckGo, claims that it doesn't track its users and has no filter bubble.
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    StartPage: Searches the web using StartPage. The search engines uses results from Google and claims that it respects its users' privacy and has no filter bubble.
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    Yahoo: Searches the web using Yahoo, one of the three major search engines.
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    Yandex: Searches the web using Yandex.

Apple

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    App Store: Searches Apple's App Store.
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    Developer Connection: Searches the Apple Developer Connection database, the number one source for OS X developers.
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    Knowledge Base: Searches the Apple Knowledge Base, the #1 resource for finding technical information about Mac computers, Mac OS and Apple software.
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    MacUpdate: Searches for OS X software using Macupdate. MacUpdate watches for the latest Macintosh software updates and visits over more than 800 websites a day, looking for version changes to software titles not submitted by developers.

Blogs

Computer Science

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    ACM Digital Library: Searches the digital library of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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    Apple Cocoa-Dev: Searches Apple's cocoa-dev mailing list. This is very useful if you do OS X software development.
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    Citeseer: Searches the CiteSeer library. Citeseer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
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    Cocoabuilder: Searches Apple & Omnigroup Cocoa mailing lists using Cocoabuilder. Very useful if you do OS X software development.
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    GitHub Code Search: Searches GitHub for code.
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    Ohloh Code Search: Searches for open source code examples and projects using Ohloh. ohloh.net is a free search engine for open source code.
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    Stack Overflow: Searches Stack Overflow for answers to development questions.

Dictionaries

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    Acronym Finder: Searches Acronym Finder, the world's largest and most accurate dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.
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    Dictionaries: Looks for word definitions in online dictionaries, namely Reference.com and Hyperdictionary.
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    Infoplease: Searches Infoplease, a reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs with statistics, facts and historical records.
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    Onelook: Searches for word definitions or translations using Onelook. Onelook is a search engine that provides access to web-based dictionaries that define or translate words.
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    Wiktionary: Looks for word definitions in the online dictionary Wiktionary. Wiktionary is a free multilingual dictionary and thesaurus that's being written collaboratively. Anybody can edit any article and a record of changes is kept.

Directories

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    Open Directory: Searches the Open Directory. The Open Directory (Dmoz.org) seeks to be the largest free web catalog.
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    WoW: Searches the WoW catalog. WoW categorizes websites by country, state or region and uses a professional editorial team.
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    Yahoo Directory: Searches the Yahoo directory. The Yahoo directory was the world's first professionally edited web directory. It is currently divided into 14 main categories.

Discussion Lists

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    DEVONtech Forum: Searches DEVONtechnologies' online discussion forum. Find answers to your most pressing questions regarding DEVONagent Lite & Co.
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    Yahoo Answers: Looks for answers to user-posted questions on Yahoo Answers.

Government

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    USA.gov: Searches for U.S. government information using FirstGov.gov. FirstGov.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information, with millions of webpages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.

Images & Videos

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    Google Video: Finds videos using Google Video.
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    Picsearch: Searches for pictures using Picsearch. Picsearch is a search engine specialized in creating a searchable index of images.
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    YouTube: Searches for videos on the popular video clip service YouTube.

Legal

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    EUR-Lex: Searches EUR-Lex for law documents and other public documents of the European Union. The contents of the site amount to more than 2.8 million documents with texts dating back to 1951. The database is updated daily and every year around 12,000 documents are added.
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    FindLaw: Searches for legal materials using FindLaw. FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal website, providing a comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, businesses, students and individuals.
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    Google Scholar (Case Law): Searches for legal materials using Google Scholar. Google Scholar provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
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    Lexis: Searches for legal materials using Lexis. LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news, and business sources.

Medical

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    Clinical Trials: Searches for materials on ClinicalTrials. ClinicalTrials provides regularly updated information about U.S. federally and privately supported clinical research on human volunteers.
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    FDA: Searches for material on the website of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The index is updated every night as many FDA documents are time sensitive.
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    Healthfinder: Searches for health-related materials using Healthfinder. Healthfinder is a gateway to selected consumer health and human services information resources provided by government agencies and other organizations.
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    MedlinePlus: Searches for health-related materials using MedlinePlus. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicie (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
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    PubMed: Searches the PubMed bibliographic database. PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE, as well as out-of-scope citations, citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing, and some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by the NLM.
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    WebMD: Searches for health-related materials using WebMD. WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health and support to those who seek information.

News

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    BBC News: Searches for news on BBC News.
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    Google News: Searches for news using Google News. Google uses its own search engine to scan important news websites and automatically compile a news portal using the found data.
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    Reuters: Searches for news on the Reuters news database. Reuters is a global information company providing information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media, and corporate markets.
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    RocketNews: Searches for news using Rocketinfo. Rocketinfo continuously searches and indexes over 16,000 Internet sites, 70,000 RSS and blog sources, as well as client-defined content channels, for current news and business information.
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    Topix: Searches for news using Topix. Topix provides a news portal that aggregates news from other sources.
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    WorldNews: Searches for news on the World News Network. World News Network ranks as one of the top sites for world news on the Internet. It includes more than 3,000 sites and covers 24 languages, categorized by geography and subject.
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    Yahoo: Searches for news on Yahoo News. Yahoo uses its own search engine to scan important news websites and automatically compile a news portal using the found data.

Patents

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    Google Patent Search: Covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO, from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. It doesn't include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months.
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    US Patent Office: Searches for patents on the US Patent and Trademark Office homepage.

References

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    British Library: Searches the British Library.
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    Google Scholar (Articles): Searches for scholarly literature using Google Scholar. Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.
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    Googlism: Lists the 'knowledge' stored in the Google database about a given search word. Googlism will find out what Google thinks of you, your friends or anything else.
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    Gutenberg.de: Searches for literature in the German-language Project Gutenberg database of free ebooks.
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    Gutenberg.org: Searches for literature in the English-language Project Gutenberg database of free ebooks.
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    Highbeam: Searches for articles on Highbeam Research. HighBeam regards itself as the premier online research tool for business and academic use, with more than 80 million articles culled from the archives of over 6,500 newspapers, magazines, journals, and other publications.
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    Internet Public Library: Searches for literature in the The Internet Public Library. The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning and teaching online environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.
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    JSTOR: Searches for articles on JSTOR. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR claims to be one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.
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    Philosophy: Searches for literature in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field.
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    Poetry: Searches for English poetry using the Electronic Poetry Center, founded by Loss Pequeno Glazier and Charles Bernstein.
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    SEC: Searches the EDGAR database of the SEC.
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    Wikipedia: Searches for articles in the free online encylopedia Wikipedia. The content of Wikipedia is free and is written collaboratively by people from all around the world. Begun in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into the largest reference website on the Internet.

Science

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    American Chemical Society: Searches for materials on the American Chemical Society (ACS) website. The American Chemical Society is a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 158,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry.
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    IngentaConnect: Searches online journals using IngentaConnect. IngentaConnect publishes scholarly and professional journals in all subject areas. It supports and produces more than 3,000 online journals.

Shopping

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    Amazon: Searches for articles on Amazon. Chooses Amazon in the USA, Germany, or France depending on the system language.

Social Networking

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    Twitter: Searches for tweets on Twitter. No available on macOS High Sierra as access to system-wide social accounts is no longer possible.
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    Facebook Profiles: Searches Facebook profiles.

Note: The Twitter plugin is not available when you purchased DEVONagent Lite in the Mac App Store due to sandboxing restrictions.