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Aware is a desktop application for
managing deep topic research of online sources. Its patent pending,
context-aware search technology allows you to direct search sources toward
your topic of interest to make each set of results highly targeted. And it
has features to help you organize, manage and share your research with
others. Aware's patent-pending search technology
learns about your research topic as you search and silently enhances your
searches to bring back highly targeted results. Aware works in the
background, learning from you in a number of ways:
Each research topic in Aware has a
Collection tab where your results are saved. The Collection is a permanent
record of your research - say goodbye to bookmarks! Aware stores copies of
the results on your hard drive, in case the web page is removed or you are
disconnected from the Internet. And if a webpage is already in a collection,
Aware will automatically exclude it from future results for that search. Aware presents you with a weighted list of
key terms that it thinks best represents your research topic. Reviewing these
terms is a great way to discover different ways to think about your topic and
sparks new ideas for areas to pursue. Aware uses these terms to help target
new results. If you disagree with the list, you have the option of changing
term weights, adding new terms or removing terms by ignoring them. Organize your results and documents within
Aware using a familiar folder structure. “Projects” can contain
any number of “Searches” and “Folders” to organize
your research. “Searches” are where you actively search for new
information – with each Search independently understood by Aware.
Folders (and sub-folders) are a convenient way to store information you might
want to share. You can also move documents around using drag and drop. A special “File Later” folder
is provided as a catch all place to store results until you file them
appropriately at a later time. This helps capture information on the fly when
you are focused on some other topic. Share your work with another Aware user or
transfer your research between work and home computers with the Import/Export
feature. Export saves all the data about a Search to a single zip file, and
Import adds it back to Aware just as it was. You can also export Folders or
all the data you have in Aware. Export will save to any external media that
is recognized by the PC as a separate drive, such as a USB key or floppy. Change which sources you search and change
the results analysis using the Search Properties. You can select sources from
a checklist and Aware will send queries to each source every time you search,
deduplicating results that return. You can also change the number of queries
sent – the more queries sent, the more broadly across your topic a
search will look. Change the depth ratio to increase the quality of the
results that Aware brings to the top. Research often brings up the same Web site
again and again. Aware lets you check a box on a result to either ignore the
specific Web page or all pages from that site. This can come in handy when a
webpage is not useful but keeps reappearing in search results, or if it is
useful but you don’t want to keep seeing pages from that site. Aware has extensive Help text to cover all
the features and functions of Aware. There is also a link to contact us
should you have any questions or comments. Aware is a PC desktop application. It runs
on Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and higher, XP Service Pack 1 and higher
(Win98 is not supported). Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 is required and will
be installed automatically by Aware if needed. Minimum system requirements
are: Pentium III, 600MHz or better; 256 MB of RAM; 20GB Hard Drive; Screen
resolution of 200dpi or less. |
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