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nontroppo:
It seems Freedom is on the march (the Bush doctrine has had an unexpected domino effect?  ;)), as yet another shareware app is going free, and one whose product area is close to many of our hearts:

http://www.humanized.com/enso/

(the web site is currently down, but the direct download link is still working: http://www.humanized.com/installers/EnsoLauncher.exe )

Enso is a launcher, aka expensive FARR clone :Thmbsup:

You can see some DC discussion on it here:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7197.0

I haven't used it since demoing the first (buggy) release, but fundamentally you will either like it or loathe it, as it uses a a pseudo-modal interface (though you can use a classic trigger key if you want). I actually really like the core UI idea, but it requires too much typing (no shortcuts unless it was added recently). Anyway, it is elegant and interresting to play with.

Lashiec:
Barring my initial reservations about the self-attributed "GUI guru" status of Aza Raskin, I might give a try to this one now that it's free. Bye, bye, FARR ;D

I'm seeing that Enso Words is free as well, this could be more interesting.

Might this be connected with the news about the guys at Mozilla hiring developers from Humanized? </shameless plug>

Darwin:
I take it that that the above is a shameless plug for your post on DC about this, right? Or are you affiliated with the Mozilla development team?

Lashiec:
ROFL. Me affiliated with the Mozilla team, that would be good!

nontroppo:
The beta products (basically plugins) are pretty neat too:

http://www.humanized.com/enso/beta/all

The translator is cool, as is the mapping agent (select an address fragment, [MAP] and a google map is inserted into your document!). The thing that Enso is really great at is capturing a selection, doing something with it and putting it back. So you can be typing in an app, select text and translate it directly without needing to cut-n-paste anywhere in the workflow. I don't know how FARR could handle that kind of task. I remember mouser adding a copy selection ability after discussing about Enso, but putting the results back I don't know; FARR has advanced quite a bit so I may be missing out on the newer plugin abilities...

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