Softchaos' Webstractor Now in Apple Store; Softchaos Celebrates by Offering ''Yoink'' Widget to Mac Community for Free.LONDON -- Softchaos, Ltd. today announced Webstractor the award-winning web content capturing and processing application, is now available on the Apple online store and in several Apple Retail Outlets retail outlet n → punto de venta retail outlet n → point m de vente retail outlet retail n → . To celebrate, the company has released "Yoink," an automatic web monitoring See Internet monitoring. widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. based on Webstractor technology. Yoink is available for free to anyone running Mac OS X version 10.4 (Tiger). "Way beyond a browser, Webstractor automatically tracks and captures content for intelligent archiving and custom document creation, all in one tool," explained Reza Farhad, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Softchaos, Ltd. "We've made the Webstractor technology available only on a Mac, and are excited about its availability on the Apple online store and in several Apple Retail Outlets. To celebrate, Yoink is our gift to the Mac community, facilitating easy monitoring of favorite sites right from dashboard." Yoink periodically checks the text content of a web page, and if significantly changed, captures the page. The adjustable thumbnail-size window also displays a red indicator bar gauging the percentage of changed text. The Yoink thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple opens full-size as a Web Archive in Safari in a single click. Webstractor customers can easily add Web Archives to their Webstractor documents, either to archive or use in the creation of custom edited documents. Several popular Web sites offer a preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. Yoink to automatically monitor site updates. Check with your favorite Web site for availability. The Yoink widget is also available today from http://www.softchaos.com/products/yoink/. Yoink is Webstractor's Little Sister The Yoink widget performs one of the functions found in Webstractor. Intuitive and powerful, Webstractor takes Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f beyond browsing to provide the ability to capture multiple web pages, remove unwanted content, annotate annotate - annotation , organize, retrieve and assemble the found materials into effective documents. Already dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "a Web researcher's dream," Webstractor 1.5 added a "Radar" capability to monitor web pages for specified keywords and capture them when an appropriate change occurs. Yoink is based on Webstractor's recently introduced Radar technology. Webstractor requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, with some features only available on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Webstractor is available for US$79.99 directly from Softchaos, the Apple online store and select Apple Retail Outlets. Educational discounts and Site licensing are available directly from Softchaos. Additional information can be obtained by visiting http://www.softchaos.com/ or by calling +44 (0)20 7434 0775. About Softchaos, Ltd. Softchaos provides market leading productivity-enhancing software for the Macintosh user. Drawing on the combined talents of an award-winning team with years of Macintosh programming, marketing and design expertise, Softchaos strives to create effective software aimed at satisfying the demands of the information intensive user. Softchaos currently develops WorkStrip, the ultimate file management tool with instant preview capabilities and more, as well as Webstractor. Softchaos, Webstractor, WorkStrip and softchaos.com are trademarks of Softchaos, Ltd. All other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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