For the past year we have been getting emails from users asking us to add parametric search to Octopart. We told you we were working on it and you probably thought we were working on our sun tans. To all of those users thanks for being so patient. We're finally releasing parametric search today!

Have you ever wanted to use Octopart to sort capacitors by their capacitance? Or to look for resistors with a power rating greater than 50W? Well, now you can. Whenever you see a numeric filter just click on it and a slider will pop up to help you set the range. For advanced users, you should try playing around with the url to refine your search even further.

OK, let's not get too excited. We realize that the features we're releasing today aren't perfect. However, we thought some people might find them useful so we wanted to release them as soon as possible. Now we're going to go back to work trying to make parametric search better so please email us with comments and suggestions (contact@octopart.com).

Take a look at the gadgets and technology sub-reddits - there are lots of cool links being posted there all the time. You'll also see this ad for Octopart there once in a while to let redditors know about Octopart. Welcome redditors!