Kevin A. Smith

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Daisy: Your Personal Web Assistant - Today's Browser Tip (Download Squad)

Nov 13th 2005 6:26PM Daisy Beta 3 was released today, 11/13/2005. This release fixes many bugs reported in Beta 2 and adds searching support for PDF, RSS, and Atom documents.

Daisy: Your Personal Web Assistant - Today's Browser Tip (Download Squad)

Nov 10th 2005 10:05AM Hi - I'm the author of Daisy and I'd like to address a couple of points about Daisy: 1) Daisy is specifically targeted at web surfing and web content. It doesn't do full PC indexing. If that's a feature you need, then please consider one of the desktop search products out there. 2) Daisy compresses all content stored on your disk. This drastically reduces the amount of space needed. There are also options in the control panel to tweak how long content is retained and also how much disk space is used. Daisy's strength lies in its ability to recreate a page as it existed at a given point in time. Daisy will even let you export that snapshot as a zip file suitable for standalone viewing so you can send the snapshot to others. Keep in mind too that Daisy is a work-in-progress. The current UI doesn't expose the full featureset. Features coming soon are: * Full PDF and RSS/Atom feed indexing and snapshotting. If you can point you're aggregator at Daisy as its proxy server Daisy can index and snapshot your "blogstream". This feature will be in the next release (Beta 3) which should be out by this weekend. * Querying on other attributes besides text including host name, links, etc. * An external scripting API callable from any language which can send HTTP requests and process XML. I'm very committed to making Daisy the best product possible. Please feel free to email me (kevin@electricanvil.com) with your comments about Daisy. Of course, all flames will be sent to the bitbucket.