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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

So Smart Software today announced the availability of Resources Picker, a new plugin for the Revolution family of software development tools. Resources Pickers lets users search and retrieve information about Revolution from the built-in documentation, stacks, mailing lists and web sites. The plugin comes with a help stack in French and English and is available for Mac OS 9/X and Windows XP.

"Revolution is a very powerful development environment, and the user community is growing at an amazing rate. Finding information which is scattered across various sources is often difficult. Resources picker makes it simple by gathering relevant sources of information and letting people search within them with just one mouse click," said Eric Chatonet of So Smart Software.

Resources Picker searches for information from four main sources:

1. Contextual and intelligent search through four aspects of the Revolution documentation: FAQ, dictionary, topics section and cookbook recipes.
2. Public Revolution related mailing lists by utilising the users web browser and a choice of three main search engines (Google, Gmane and Mail Archive). Support is also provided for direct additional links to Google Advanced Search, Gmane by threads and Mail Archive by threads or by date. Automated preparation of posts to the use-Revolution or Education lists.
3. Revolution related relevant web resources: websites, stacks and files etc. through a local customizable database, an index of the contents of Rev Online and an index of the contents of RevNet.
4. An "All the Web" search from within the IDE with a choice of three engines: Google, Yahoo or MSN.

This announcement brings to fourteen the number of free Revolution plugins available from So Smart Software. For further details, screenshots and downloads, please visit www.sosmartsoftware.com.