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DEVONthink Personal - 2.0pb7

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.0pb7
Release Date:	2009-09-15
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	392
Downloads (all versions):	38,439
Price:	$39.95

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Product Description:

Everything is digital today. But where to store all these e-mails, PDFs, Word documents, images and multimedia files you accumulate every day? How to organize them, and find the right one when you need it?

DEVONthink is the solution for the digital age, the one database for all your documents. And it's flexible. It adapts to your personal needs. Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your e-mail archive or your project organizer. Collect and organize data from the web for a publication, enrich it with sound and movie files, and export everything as a web site, drag it to an Apple Pages document for publishing in print, or copy it to your iPod.

The Database for the Internet Age: DEVONthink keeps your important data in one database, regardless of where the data is physically located. Integrate both local documents and live content from the Internet to keep all project-related information together. Seamlessly mix local documents, clippings and live web pages.

Your Digital Workplace: DEVONthink is not only a simple database, it's a flexible work environment with powerful management features. It provides you with all the tools you need for effectively working with your documents. Use the integrated RTF editor to write new documents, or open them in a third party application.

Intelligent Assistant: DEVONthink is based on a powerful AI architecture that helps you organize and navigate your information collection. It assists you with filing documents and with finding similar items. Master even huge data collections with a few simple clicks.

What's new in this version:

NEW: Quick Look preview of audio files contains play, plause, and mute buttons. Uses Play automatically preference for QuickTime media.
NEW: Services updated for compatibility with new system services (services appearing in contextual menus).
NEW: Dock menu uses indentation.
Improved: Scroll bars in head-up display styles, e.g. the Groups panel, support arrows at top and bottom.
Improved: Display of icon previews created by Quick Look, e.g. for web archives.
Improved: Overall compatibility to Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
Fixed: Incompatibility of Apple Mail conduit plugin.
Fixed: Compatibility issues of OCR and scan functions.
Fixed: The Image Capture application can use DEVONthink Pro Office again as a target application.
Fixed: Automator workflows did not work.
Fixed: Editing of smart groups did not work.
Fixed: Quick Look panel did not work.
Fixed: Quick Look based views did not work in full screen mode.
Fixed: Duplicate Remove Link items in contextual menus of rich texts.
Fixed: Minor visual glitches.
Temporarily disabled: Defunct option Global Inbox in Save Dialogs of Help > Install Add-ons panel.
Removed: Now obsolete services menu in contextual menus of various views.
From this release on all editions of DEVONthink require Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires December 31, 2009.
NEW: Instances pop-up menu listing all enclosing groups for this item and all duplicates. Selecting a location in the menu reveals it.
NEW: Command-clicking the title of main, document, and search windows list all enclosing groups of the shown document. Selecting an enclosing group opens the group in the main window or opens a new window for it.
NEW: Menu option to clear the recent destinations.
NEW: Number of pages of PDF documents without (!) text is used to recognize duplicates. Note: This applies only to documents imported/indexed/created using 2.0pb7 or later.
NEW: Services and the PDF Services script try to capture the URL from Firefox again. Due to limitations and bugs of Firefox 3.x, this might or might not work for you.
NEW: Support for Internet locations (e.g. .webloc) using the data fork.
NEW: '.sdef' added to list of known text/XML extensions.
NEW: Custom icons of files/folders with at least 64x64 pixels are added to the database while importing/indexing (used e.g. by templates).
NEW: (Insert) Link To sub-menus of contextual menus contain last destinations.
Improved: Shortcut of Edit > Paste with Current Style is now identical to the ones used in Apple's applications.
Improved: Revised appearance of non-editable fields in Document Properties panel.
Improved: See Selected Text renamed to See Related Text.
Improved: It is now possible to drag items on groups in classify and search results.
Improved: Edit > Find > In Database shows the toolbar if necessary.
Improved: Inbox can be moved in unsorted views but only at the top level of the database.
Improved: Handling of window positions and sizes; improved cascading.
Improved: Log panel does no longer become active automatically anymore.
Improved: Orphaned files that could not be imported while repairing are logged and moved to the folder 'Orphans' inside the database package/folder.
Improved: Overall performance and stability.
Fixed: Results of duplicating/replicating multiple selected and nested groups was kind of unexpected.
Fixed: Total size in Database Properties panel was not correct.
Fixed: Depending on active/focused view in three-pane views, different destinations for new/captured items were used.
Fixed: Smart groups using only tags did not apply the 'Search in' setting.
Fixed: After emptying the trash containing replicants, tabs/windows displaying other replicants of the same record were invalidated.
Fixed: Rare glitches after expanding basic/additional information of Info panel fixed.
Fixed: Various other minor bugs and glitches.
NEW: PDF annotations. PDF documents can be annotated using new toolbar items similar to Apple Preview and existing annotations can be selected, moved, or edited by double-clicking them. Pressing the Delete key or using Edit > Delete removes the selected annotations.
NEW: Image editing panel. Double-clicking an image opens the new panel which lets the user change exposure, black and white points, brightness, contrast, sharpness, etc. and choose between a selection of pre-defined filters. Undo/redo and rotating is supported, too. Changes are saves as lossless TIFF.
Improved: Templates are appended to Data > New menu, support custom icons, and exporting as template exports custom icons, too.
Fixed: Groups panel and Group selector support all spaces.
Fixed: File > Export > Database Archive sometimes failed due to bugs in the 'ditto' and 'zip' command line tools. Workaround.
Fixed: Quick Look panel could have been empty after enabling Cover Flow.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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Who is "Brass Hammer"? - Version: 2.0pb6, 8/8/2009 08:43PM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

philosopherdog

Obviously the previous reviewer has a problem. Click on his name and see the drivel he writes. Obviously the dude hasn't used DT. Anyhow, DT is simply the most powerful program on the Mac for researchers. Check out there website and forums and judge for yourself. I personally prefer the Pro version myself.

No confidence from the company - Version: 2.0pb5, 7/30/2009 08:25AM PST

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Brass Hammer

Here is what I think when a company continually puts out one beta after another. The company has no confidence in its product and is trying to pawn it off to the public while being able to fall back on "Hey! We said it was beta!" DEVON: If its any good, release it. If it is junk, stop using the public to do your testing for you.

Too Little Too Late? - Version: 2.0pb5, 6/26/2009 04:14PM PST

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jarlaxle.merc

All the features worth looking at are quickly becoming freely available in other existing technologies, not to mention the handful of necessary features DTP lacks. If I wanted a glorified Finder I'd turn to Path Finder. That said, DTP is hardly even glorified as the Spotlight criteria capabilities are rather sad. Oh well.