\n\tNOTE: If you’d prefer to view this information as a blog post, check out this entry in our Five Apps blog.
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\n\tOne of the more intriguing features of Windows 8 is the ability for applications to add themselves as a search provider. This means you can enter a search phrase in Windows 8 and have results pulled from various apps instead of from the operating system itself. While the Windows 8 Store currently does not have many apps in it, there are several that show off the search integration nicely. Here are five of them.
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\n\tThe Cookbook application by Bewise is a visually impressive application. Looking up food and recipes in it makes me hungry!
\n\tSince I eat three meals a day like most folks, I have three opportunities to try something new and interesting. Quickly finding new foods or recipes for old favorites is a joy with this app.
\n\tAppy Geek searches the tech media and does it nicely. It presents the results as a convenient set of pictures and blurb text on the left, with the bulk of the screen for the results. This is a very convenient way to determine whether the results you found are what you are looking for.
\n\tStumbleUpon’s search is unique, in that it does not provide you with a list of results, it takes you directly to a result that fits your interests. This is a fun way to discover new things, much like you can get lost in the Wikipedia “rabbit hole,” as I often do.
I am an all purpose IT person. If there's a generic job title in IT, I've probably had it, most likely more than once. Programmer, systems administrator, DBA, PC tech/repair, Help Desk, webmaster, web designer, web developer, applications developer, network engineering. Somehow I have managed to get my thumb stuck in each one of those pies!
