{"id":8658,"date":"2014-04-05T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T01:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2014-04-05T21:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T01:53:53","slug":"searching-using-fnd-io-instead-of-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/05\/searching-using-fnd-io-instead-of-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching Using fnd.io Instead of iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/273180\/handy-web-tool-much-faster-way-search-itunes-store\/\">Alex Heath<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/273180\/handy-web-tool-much-faster-way-search-itunes-store\/\"><p>Let&rsquo;s be honest, searching in the iTunes Store sucks, especially on the desktop. It&rsquo;s often slow, and the results are difficult to navigate. Apple has tried to simplify things by displaying one result at a time in the App Store on iOS, but that approach also means that it can take longer to find the specific app you want in a sea of knockoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnd.io\/\">A new web tool called &ldquo;fnd&rdquo;<\/a> makes it easier to quickly search and navigate not just the App Store, but the iTunes Store in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike iTunes (and the Mac App Store), fnd.io is fast, and you can search and select text within the page. Here&rsquo;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obdev.at\/products\/launchbar\/\">LaunchBar<\/a> search template for it:<\/p>\n<pre>https:\/\/fnd.io\/#\/search?mediaType=all&amp;term=*<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Heath: Let&rsquo;s be honest, searching in the iTunes Store sucks, especially on the desktop. It&rsquo;s often slow, and the results are difficult to navigate. Apple has tried to simplify things by displaying one result at a time in the App Store on iOS, but that approach also means that it can take longer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,847,224,189,467,30,32,39,343,96],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-ibooks-store","tag-itunes","tag-itunesstore","tag-launchbar","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-search","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}