6/7/2023 0 Comments Devonagent pro windowsThe recent advent of version 1.5 is a good excuse to write about DEVONagent, but the fact is, I’ve been meaning to mention this wonderful program for a long time – ever since I first tried it, to learn the answers to questions like these: "Prior to the artificial revival of Hebrew as a spoken language in post-War Israel, when did Hebrew go extinct as a living vernacular?" and "What’s the story behind the Lisa Della Casa / George London recording of Richard Strauss’s ‘Arabella’?" In both cases I ended up learning exactly what I wanted to know, immediately, and I knew instantly that this program was a keeper. What if you had an application that provided exactly that, by taking the second step for you? Using a search engine, it would perform the search, then visit all the top links, download the content, and filter that content by relevance and index it so that you could find the particular facts you were looking for, quickly and easily. The truth is that when you have a question, what you want is not a list of links what you want is content, and in particular, content that answers your question. Instead, Google just confronts you with a completely new task, namely, to start visiting all those links and perusing them, with hand and eye and brain, hunting for the information you want. Basically, Google alone doesn’t solve your problem unless the first two or three links happen to consist precisely of a complete discussion of exactly the question you had in mind, which rarely happens. Google is nice (and don’t you wish you’d bought stock?), but what it gives you is just a list of links. Finding facts on the Internet is not easy. And it’s just sitting there, waiting for you to find it.īut how? There’s the rub. No matter what you want to know, someone, somewhere, has been nutty enough to be extremely interested in it and to have written it up in excruciating detail. ![]() 1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blindĭEVONagent Rushes In Where Google Fears to TreadĪs I keep telling my mother when she doesn’t know or can’t remember a fact: "No problem, this is why heaven gave you the Internet!" Isn’t it great? You don’t need a memory the Internet is a giant encyclopedia.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook. ![]() #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.
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