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We are proud to announce four new Enso products. This time they’re all free.
Enso Media Remote Control
A remote-control for your music: play, pause, and skip tracks in you favorite music player without moving from your current application.

Enso Translate Anywhere
The power to translate English to and from eight other languages, in any application.

Enso Web Search Anywhere
Provides commands for performing web searches using a variety of web services, from Amazon to Youtube to your Gmail account.

Enso TeX Anywhere
Effortlessly render TeX markup into beautifully type-set equations (and convert them back again) anywhere from Powerpoint to your email.

Can’t decide which one you want to try first? Then download them all with the One Installer.

The Beta Products are all free; and unlike the free Launcher and Words trials, the Beta Product commands don’t expire. Why Beta? Because they’re still works in progress. Beta products are a chance to see Enso mid-thought, so they’ll have unfinished corners. That’s where you come in: new features and new products will be determined largely by you! If we get to the point where we are turning a Beta Product into a real product, we reserve the right to start charging money for the “real product” version. We might not, though. Either way, we’ll never take away your Beta Products.

The beta products bring us one step closer to fulfilling our grand vision for Enso, so we’re very excited about them. There are a lot of cool things you can do with these new commands! So download them, try them out, experiment, and have some fun! We intend to introduce a new Beta Product, or add to an existing one, every couple of weeks. Keep those suggestions flowing.

Now, for those of you who already have Enso, a couple of weeks ago your copy of Enso should have automatically updated itself. This latest patch brings Enso up to version 2846, the 6th release since launch. The new patch contains the usual round of bug-fixes. Please use the “Report Bug” command to tell us about any bugs you find in the either normal Enso Products or Enso Beta Products

Check back next week for the first mystery beta product.

Please note: Since January 15, 2008, all Enso products have been free. Any information in the above post about prices, demos, or licensing issues is, therefoure, out-of-date. To get the latest version of Enso, free of charge, see the main Enso page.

Simply amazing!
Tomorrow morning, I’m buying a new Vista laptop and I can’t wait to install all those and test them out. I’ll report about “Media remote control” and Yahoo! Music Jukebox.
As for the suggestions, desktop search integration, whether it uses Vista desktop search or Google desktop search, would be nice.
Also, I mentioned it before but adding more languages to Enso Word would be a real +. I’m writing my thesis in French and English and having some Enso love for my French would be hot!

Try creating Enzo commands for other “human software” like MindMap! It would be really helpful.

Great stuff Aza :) Your “announcement” for something big to come was a nice hint :)

Any chance Enso might get a plug-in system for everybody to write their own search-commands? I know, this would probably make Ensos look-and-feel different on each machine, but instead of putting in different commands for a search on Amazon.com .de .it .co.uk (and that’s what we need imho, as I dont want to search amazon.com but .de :) ), this could help a lot of people.

Enso’s biggest tragedy is that it isn’t Free Software.

Personally I am glad Enso is not free. I am tired of free software. When someone devotes their time, creativity, energy and knowledge to create a piece of software, it is only fair to retribute them.

It is a virtuous circle. Give and Receive.

While there are some free software iniciatives that have been greatly beneficial, it has been damaging to small software developers. Now a days people just feel entitled to own and use software without any consideration for the people who have developed it.

The price of Enso products is very low and people are still complaining. I mean… seriously, what’s going on?

Why don’t scan PC for known programs during installation?
It would be nice if ENSO could recognize Picassa, G Earth, MS Office and Skype on my pc, so I do not need to create commands for each of them.

I would like to second Rob’s comment that it is a good thing that Enso isn’t free. Think about it for a minute, people:

There are many different models for software development. MS Office is designed by a mega-corporation, for profit, and is not free. People buy it because it’s pretty much guaranteed to work. OpenOffice is designed by everybody and his brother, and is free. But it’s buggy, slow, and it develops very slowly. Other open-source projects develop even more slowly. Many people work on free, open-source software because it’s fun and they’re comfortably employed and can afford to do some work on the side.

What happens if a small group of programmers, unemployed, want to create a great new app, and want to be able to dedicate themselves full-time to it? Should they have to get jobs in a pizzeria, work on the software at night, and give it away for free? Why shouldn’t they be allowed to start a company, work like crazy, and then get paid for what they produce? That doesn’t sound at all strange to me.

In other words, some people want to design software for a living, which means selling it. The customer, in paying for the software, gets a lot more development and (hopefully) better support than with free software.

If someone offers me an old couch for free, I might take it, but if I see a couch I really like in a shop, I’m not going to go to the salesman and complain that the couch isn’t free. That’s absurd.

You go, guys. Stay out of the pizzeria and keep cranking out those features.

If I buy a mustang, it is already free! I can take it to a paint shop, and pay people to paint it, and modify it. When I buy a table it too is free; I can sand and paint it, or make it a bit shorter. Purchased books are also free; I can give it to a friend to read. With non-free software, such as Enso, I can not do these basic things.

Rather than using a non-free license and restricting it’s potential, Enso could protect itself by using the GNU General Public License.

In the hardware world, you can make money by selling copies of things because it takes material, energy and effort to make copies. In software, there is no effort in making copies, the computer does that for us at zero to little cost. Making money in the software world means getting paid to make changes to software, not selling copies of software!

Rob, and Gregory: You’re the kinds of people that faith in humanity! You showcase that we really do want to help support each other. If Enso was using the GNU General Public License, you guys would be ones giving them money to keep them out of the pizzeria!

correction: You’re the kinds of people that RESTORE faith in humanity!

The remote media control is great, the thing that makes Enso so good is that I forget I am using it.

I haven’t opened a start menu for so long, and spell checking is just there.

That to me is the mark of great software, I notice its absence when I move to a different machine.

What I would like to see is a list of what my Enso knows, like what open stuff it can display, as I have a load of short cuts and favorites that I don’t often use and probably need tidying up, and Enso seams to be a good way in.

Beautiful! So beautiful I’m going to buy it, and this is coming from a user who jokes that the only good copy of proprietary software is an illegal copy. So beautiful that when given the choice between a spanking-new Dell and my crappy old ThinkPad, I choose the ThinkPad just because I can run Enso on it.

Two things: direct file search and immediate web navigation via URL. Though Google Desktop can handle the search part, it kills my train of thought, and just isn’t as smooth as Enso. And it’s a pain to have to type “Open Opera,” then navigate to the address bar, then type whatever address I’m looking for. Learn as Open just isn’t enough for the sites I only visist every once in awhile.

Anyway, keep up the great work, guys. Also love the live comment preview.

Its a shame these are Windows only :(

But still, they look great, and I love reading the blog!

An interesting point of extension until the API comes out, you can use SendKeys in a vbs script to leverage the power of global hotkeys in some applications and then learn the vbs script “as open”. This is how I did basic media control previously, though you do end up with the ugly syntax of “open play”.

Great package. Makes Enso even more useful for me. I just need one more thing to make my life complete - I would like to search the GERMAN wikipedia and the GERMAN ebay…