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Niice Is A Unified Search Engine For Behance, Dribbble & Designspiration

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The world of digital art is amazing; whether you’re an aspiring designer, or just someone looking for cool posters to hang at your work space, you can go online and lose yourself in the vast variety of images available. Niice is a little web app that you are bound to like if you’re a designer. It’s a three-in-one search engine that displays digital artwork from Behance, Dribbble, and Designspiration. You can search for artwork related to anything from these three sites. The images that match your search are previewed on Niice’s own interface, and clicking any of them opens it at its source. The interface is somewhat like that of Pinterest, without the clutter of social media buttons and comments. Niice isn't built to create any sort of social network; it is rather meant to help you find inspiration art for your projects or everyday life. Read More

Everything Search Engine Is The Fastest Way To Find Files On Windows

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Usually when we hear about the term ‘Search Engine’, names like Google or Bing instantly click the mind (sorry Yahoo! you don't cut it to the list for most anymore). Often, one wishes for something similar on our PC that can quickly index and display search results from local drive. While the default search feature in Windows works fine for the Start Menu or Start Screen entries as well as your installed programs, it's not as instant for the rest of your computer's files and folders because the feature indexes the content of files as well. Everything Search Engine makes things simpler and much, much faster. This tiny Windows application is designed to let you search for files and folders located anywhere on your computer and display search results in real-time at breakneck speed, leaving everything on your computer just a few keystrokes away. The application achieves its impressive speed by indexing file and folder names only, skipping file content. Read More

Popular Search Engine DuckDuckGo Releases App For Windows 8 And RT

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DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine that promotes privacy as its key feature and aims to burst the ‘filter bubble’, which the company believes limits search queries by profiling people on the internet. Profiling means that search results are displayed according to a person’s taste, habits, occupation, country etc. and the information regarding these is extracted from a user’s previous queries and a web browser’s cookies database. While most of us tend to Google our way through nearly all our web searches, many might not know that the world's leading search engine uses tracking algorithms to instantly filter the results and display suggestions custom-tailored for you. DuckDuckGo believes otherwise and presents the exact same results to everyone searching for the same query. The company has now released a Modern-UI app for Windows 8 and RT platforms. Sporting a very minimalistic and elegant design, DuckDuckGo allows users to search the internet using DuckDuckGo search engine, check on daily Water Cooler stories, and much more! Read More

Blekko’s Izik Is An Intuitive, Tablet-Ready Search Engine For Android & iOS

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With the growing user base and popularity of smartphones, tablets and other web-enabled gadgets of the present age, the most renowned search engines are trying to carve out an ideal solution to help mobile users conduct online searches on their devices in the most convenient manner possible. The introduction of Google Now in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and the release of a Smart Cards-powered Google Search app for iOS is a definite testament to the above statement. That being said, most existing mobile search solutions are still deemed by many as a bit unintuitive and hard to get a hang of. New to the scene, Blekko's izik is a search engine with companion mobile apps that builds upon the concept of rich search results, answering your online queries with an even greater wealth of information on a single, interactive and visually rich search page. Read More

Movie Twist For Android Recommends Movies By Mood, Tags, Genre & More

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Who doesn’t love watching movies and adding new titles to their personal movie collection? However, the problem lies in the lack of quality and reliable sources to get useful and accurate movie suggestions from. Everyone has their own personal tastes and preferences, which could vary considerably from yours. Therefore, relying solely on the word of your friends or anonymous IMDB commenters regarding ‘good’ movie recommendations might not always prove to be too useful. How about a mobile app that helps you get near-perfect suggestions regarding the movies based on your mood, choice and liking? This is what Movie Twist brings to the table. Fresh to Google Play Store, Movie Twist is a free Android app supporting a well-crafted online movies exploration platform that lets you discover and bookmark some of the best film titles in a number of ways. Furthermore, each movie title suggested by the app is supplemented with relevant IMDB rating, star cast, YouTube trailers, tags, brief description and a slew of assisting tools to find more relevant matches. Read More

Set Mobile Safari’s Default Search Engine To Wolfram Alpha, Baidu, Yandex & Others

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A few months back, we covered a rather complicated method for adding more options to the list of default search engines in Safari for iOS. While that method (involving iFile and file system editing) still works perfectly, the margin for error in it is very little. One wrong entry in the registry, and you might end up rendering your iPhone’s Safari completely unusable (I landed my iPhone in that condition doing that, so that's personal experience right there). So, it was about time some clever developer came up with a one-touch solution for this issue. SearchEnable is a new tweak that automatically adds 8 new search engines to Safari’s stock list, which natively includes only Google, Yahoo and Bing. Of course, you cannot add a search engine of your choice to the list using this Cydia tweak, but the offered options should prove to be sufficient for most people. Read More

Perform A Wolfram Alpha Search On iPhone Using An Activator Gesture

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Wolfram Alpha is a rather unique search engine, and can help a lot of users in getting more information on any subject in less time. If you don’t know what Wolfram Alpha is, it is a search engine that integrates content rather than results consisting of pages. The service comes up with a complete article related to any entered keyword, complete with images, text and related links. Although the service has got an iOS client and a web version, now you can search Wolfram Alpha even faster than before, if you have a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Gesture control is all the rage these days, and the new tweak WolfRam Quick Search makes use of Activator gestures to let its users look for any Wolfram Alpha definition you want. Its like having a widget for the search service, waiting for you to perform the chosen gesture so that it can come into action. Read More

Jobs Aggregator For Chrome Makes Job Searching A Snap

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Are you looking for a job? Seeking a job can be frustrating. Tired of spending hours searching thousands of individual job boards, career sites, local newspapers, and corporate sites? It seems like the job market is gradually picking up its momentum once again, so there is some hope. You probably just need to know where to look. Jobs Aggregator is exactly the kind of Chrome extension you need to install in order to hunt for jobs. It claims to help people find millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards and newspapers. Read More

Dunno Helps You Research Any Topic With Related Blogs, Images, Videos, Wikipedia Results & More

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In many instances, a cursory Google search is enough to familiarize you with any topic, but there are cases when you want to know everything there is to know about your object of interest. For such thorough researches, you have to browse through Wikipedia, YouTube, images, and a lot of other sources related to the subject. Dunno is an app that saves you all this trouble by researching anything for you! All you have to do is define a keyword or phrase, and then leave Dunno to do its job. The app integrates information from all the most important resources around the web, and you can view all this accumulated data at your own leisure. Read on if you want to know more about this really helpful iOS and Mac app. Read More

Wolfram Alpha+: Comprehensive Search Engine & Scientific Calculator For WP7

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Wolfram Alpha has always been popular, but in recent times, it has been more in the news owing to Siri’s dependency on the service. For those who don’t know much about Wolfram Alpha, it is a service that can be useful if you are looking for some piece of information, but don’t want to sort through a lot of search results. Wolfram Alpha is intelligent enough to come up with all the necessary information related to your query, and you can even perform complex calculation using the service’s calculator. Wolfram Alpha+, although not an official Windows Phone 7 client for Wolfram Alpha, comes with all the features offered by the web version of the service. You can perform calculations, simplify mathematical equations and ask Wolfram Alpha+ anything you want. Read More

DuckDuckGo Zero-Click Info Adds Instant Answers To Google Search [Chrome]

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If you have heard of Knowledge Graph already, it's a new feature being worked on by Google that enables you to search for things, people or places  relevant to your query. If Google is your favorite search engine and you want something similar to Knowledge Graph before it becomes available, then you might want to try out a Chrome extension called DuckDuckGo Zero-Click Info. The extension uses DuckDuckGo's methodology of grabbing information from crowd-sourced websites (e.g., Wikipedia) to augment traditional results with auto-generated content and improved relevance.  The extension offers you zero-click information boxes that are automatically integrated at the top of Google search results for your queries, just like DuckDuckGo. These boxes generally display multiple meanings  for your query, and provide direct links to the main article pages, so you don’t have scroll and click around to find what you’re looking for. Read More

Add Any New Search Engine To Safari On Your Jailbroken iPhone

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Jailbreaking is all about getting complete control over your iOS device and making changes to every area of your iPhone’s operating system. Mostly, jailbreak users don’t have to go through too much trouble to make these changes, thanks to the tweaks available in the Cydia store. However, you can’t rely on tweaks for everything, and at times, things have to be done manually. If you are a fan of any search engine other than Google, Yahoo and Bing (the ones included in Mobile Safari’s default list), there isn’t any clear and easy way of changing Safari’s search engine to the one of your choice. Fortunately, thanks to the steps recently highlighted by our friends over at LifeHacker, you can add any search source to Safari’s search engine list. Read on to discover the procedure, which makes use of iFile, and thus, requires a jailbroken iDevice. Read More

Select/Highlight Words To View Definitions & Perform Search In Chrome

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Wouldn’t it be great if we could search and lookup definitions of difficult words without navigating away from a page we are currently on? Inline Search & Lookup, a Chrome extension, works perfectly and allows you to perform searches or lookups without leaving the page. Once you’ve installed the extension, all you have to do is simply hold Alt (configurable) and double click a word. As you do this, a small inline box will pop up with the results of your search or lookup. Moreover, the search engine from where the definitions are retrieved can be changed. The extension works on almost any website, and allows you to easily specify your own sources. You can also specify default scrolling actions for each source, so when you perform a search, the pop-up will automatically scroll to the appropriate section of the page. Read More

Search Assistant: Get Results From Custom Search Engines In Chrome’s Address Bar

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Often, when we browse the web for research purposes, we have to search the same keyword on multiple search engines. Typing the search term over and over again in different search engines can be a difficult and time consuming task. Search Assistant, a Chrome extension, solves this problem and lets you search multiple search engines for the same keyword with only a click or two. The extension adds a tiny button in the address bar, which, when clicked, displays a pop-up, with a list of search engines, such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and YouTube. The extension is customizable, so you can delete the default search engines and add others according to your preference. Read More

CloudMagic Releases Its Mail & Twitter Search Client For Android & iOS

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Whether you’re a businessperson, a student or a casual web user, chances are that you often find yourself swarmed by plenty of emails, contacts, online documents, calendar events, social activities, and so on. Surely, with the consistent flow of information from so many various sources, it becomes a tad difficult to recall and pluck something at the time of need. CloudMagic is a cross-platform online search tool for Gmail, Google App accounts, Google Docs, Events and Contacts and Twitter that claims to fetch you required content from multiple accounts in just a few seconds through its handy web extension for desktop browsers as well as the recently introduced smartphone client for Android and iPhone. Read More

Nuance Brings Its Voice-Controlled Search Engine Dragon Go! To Android

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Nuance, the company behind Dragon Dictation, Dragon For Email, FlexT9, Dragon Search and now, Swype and Vlingo, has released its voice-based search assistant, Dragon Go!, to the Android Market. After the successful launch of the app in the iTunes App Store, Nuance announced at the recent CES 2012 that it would be bringing its latest brainchild to Android users as well. Arguably among one of the most elegantly designed, feature-rich and simple-to-use voice search apps in the Android Market, Dragon Go! vows to help you with searching for virtually anything. Whether you wish to get the latest weather forecast for your hometown from multiple weather services, want to post a quick update to your Facebook Wall, check your Twitter timeline, need the map of Venice, listen to Madonna on Pandora, YouTube or Last.fm, search for a movie's DVD on Amazon or eBay, locate a McDonald’s outlet in your vicinity, or conduct your routine searches on Google, Ask.com, Bing or Yahoo!, the app has you covered. Read More

FilesHut Can Search 50 File Hosting Sites & Filter Results By Format

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If you’ve used FilesTube, then you know being able to search multiple sites at once can make your life infinitely easier. FilesTube searches the popular file hosting sites like Megaupload, FileServe, FileSonic etc. FilesHut is a similar web service that crawls over 50 websites in its search, including the same popular ones that FilesTube does. You can even filter search results by format. Please note that FilesHut is a search engine, so it will not help you bypass pay walls or speed up downloads. The make or break with this service lies in how relevant the search results are to your query, and that it boasts crawling more services. Read More

Official Ask.com App Brings Its Q&A-Oriented Search Engine To Android

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Ask.com – one of the most popular Question and Answer (Q&A) based web services/ search engines has just launched its official client for Android users, bringing along with it a bunch of handy features that had so far been enjoyed by iOS users only. Using Ask.com app, you can easily post questions based on any preferred topic and get answers from people (and experts) from all around the world. You can also browse and answer listed questions, get answers for personal questions, receive push notifications for questions/answers and post queries about local places near you. All this and more, right on your Android device absolutely free of cost! Read More

Easily Change The Default Search Engine In The Awesome Bar [Firefox]

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If you’ve just started using Firefox it’s likely you’re still poking around its options and customizing it as per your preference. In the process you might have noticed that unlike Chrome or Internet Explorer, Firefox allows you to tweak just about anything from about:config.While the option opens a whole new world of customization for those who know what to do, the average user might be fairly clueless making it very difficult to tweak something simple like the default search engine in the URL bar. If like many people, you use only the URL bar to both search the web and enter web addresses, you might want to set the search engine as per your own preference and Choose Search Engine is a Firefox extension that let’s you do that easily.

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Change the Default Search Engine In Windows Phone 7 [How To]

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Some of us today have become so addicted to search engines that sometimes the impulse is there to look for your lost pair of socks on Google! Due to this essential role of search engines, many web browsers come integrated with search engines. You simply have to go to your browser’s address bar and key in any word you want to search. This is a time-efficient tool as you don’t have to go all the way to the search engine’s website and search from there. Being a pretty slick OS, Windows Phone 7 uses Internet Explorer as its default web browser and Bing search comes integrated with it. But if you are more of a Google or Yahoo fan, you can change this setting using a little registry tweaking. Read More