With over 300,000 apps and no decent way to filter through search results means a long, painful process if you’re looking for anything particular. Well, it was a painful process. Apple has quietly updated the App Store to include new search filters/categories that will make all of our lives easier, and reduce the amount of time wasted needlessly scrolling. Search categories include: Category Customer Rating Device Price Release...

Ask someone you know their idea of the ideal employer. I’m sure that out of all the responses, one of the most popular would be “self employed”. Ask a techie however and you’ll hear a few common names — Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc., etc. Tonight, the spotlight is on Google — the company known for their difficult, impossible, and “out there” hiring questions. But none of that really matters because Google is simply...

For some time now, Google has given users the option of narrowing down your search results based on various factors, with time being one of the more important options — in my mind anyway. For “in the now” folks such as myself, I’ve made heavy use of the relatively new “Latest” category in Google Search which pulled its information from Twitter as well as many other real-time, constantly updating services. Today, however, Google is giving...

Android users and fans of food finding service “Yelp” have a new toy to play with residing in the latest Google Maps 4.4 update — food, ATMs, Bars, Gas Stations and more. In a market (no pun intended) that is heavily saturated with similar “food-based location search” apps, Google’s update may seem like a “me too” approach. For the most part, that assumption would be true. Google Places aggregates its data from Yelp,...

Ever wonder what happened to those old staples of the internet such as AskJeeves, Info Search, and so on? Breathe a sigh of relief because you can sleep soundly again thanks to this handy little info graph that shows us (with a little NSFW languague) what was, and what now is. Hop inside for the full-sized...