Fed up with repetitive Web browsing? The Easy Bee Version 2.0 saves time and money

(PRWEB) October 3, 2003

Web automation specialist Altercept unveiled today version 2.0 of The Easy Bee, a software product for Windows that periodically downloads and aggregates web content extracted from virtually any web site, even from password-protected sites.

Repetitive Web surfing wastes a lot of time to individuals and companies. The Easy Bee aims to provide an user-friendly solution to Web browsing costs. Indeed the product lets the user quickly and easily record web browsing macros. It then replays them periodically and silently. Macros --web agents-- can include user actions such as form filling and button clicking, thus allowing the so-called invisible Web to be reached and included in dashboard pages.

The product also allows the user to specify an area to extract from target web pages such as an image or a table, letting users focus on their interests without being distracted by flashing advertisements and irrelevant links. The Easy Bee aggregates these extracts on pages that the user can easily edit by resizing and moving excerpts. Aggregated pages may be thought of as dashboards that always display up-to-date information. Dashboards are printer-friendly and can be annotated before being printed.

Altercept founder Denis Dollfus believes that The Easy Bee will help companies reduce their internet costs. "Web-related productivity will rise when employees stop repetitively visiting the same sites, filling the same forms and waiting for the same pages to download", he explained, "I wanted a product that lets the end-user easily automate these tedious tasks and keep every target web pages always on hand and up-to-date".

The graphical interface is designed to guide the user through the creation of a new web agent in such a way that no technical knowledge is required in order to record a browsing sequence, specify an area to cut out of the target page, indicate the refreshing schedule and design the layout of dashboard pages.

The product automatically locks all agents that operate on password-protected pages, hiding the gathered content and preventing agent edition. A global password chosen by the user is used to unlock such private content. Files related to private agents are encrypted on the user disk with standard algorithms provided by Windows systems, preventing any malicious user to access private data.

Altercept has chosen to hide the complexity of its underlying proprietary technology with a nice metaphor: honeybees -web agents- diligently fly and gather their Web harvest in honeycombs -dashboards.

Agent execution is managed by a background process, the Hive, that silently launch them as soon as an internet connection is available. The user can also configure the Hive to automatically open and close an internet connection when an agent has to run.

The Easy Bee is designed for Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003. It requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.

The Easy Bee v 2.0 costs $129.95 (US) and may be ordered online from http://www.TheEasyBee.com. Volume pricing and site licenses are available. A demo version limited to 6 Web Agents is also available from the same site. For more information contact Altercept, 4 route de Mauzaise, 78125 La Boissiere Ecole, France. Phone: +33 (0)1 34 94 35 97. E-mail: support@TheEasyBee.com. Internet: http://www.TheEasyBee.com for product information, http://www.Altercept.com for company information.

About Altercept

Altercept is a young company aiming at increasing Web-related productivity. Altercept developed a set of software components for Windows operating systems that cover various aspects of Web surfing automation. The Easy Bee makes use of some components of Altercept's technology.