Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under productivity
05/16/2011
What Your Friends Like
A few weeks ago I was inspired by HackNY (where students design/develop/launch an app in 24 hours) and decided to try and fix a recurring problem I’ve been having with Facebook.I often want to segment my Facebook friends based on what they like (places, bands etc) and message them individually. Instead of posting to my [...]
03/28/2011
Must have apps for the iPad 2
It’s thinner. It’s lighter. It’s faster. None of these are the real reason to love the iPad 2. Ultimately as evey device in our lives gets thinner, lighter and faster comparing specs tells you very little. The iPad is the software and these apps are the reason I use my iPad more than my iMac, [...]
01/31/2011
LiveView – Stream iOS Comps from you Mac to your Device in Realtime
LiveView, a new project from NIcholas Zambetti allows you to broadcast your working iOS application designs from your Mac to your device for testing. You start off by installing the LiveView Screencaster on your Mac, and the free LiveView app on your iOS device. The Screencaster app is a simple window, shaped like an iPhone, [...]
01/20/2011
Pinterest.com – Visual Bookmarking Tool
Pinterest is a bookmarking tool, introduced to me by Jenny Bowskill, that operates like a visual pinboard – letting you save images you like and follow people who share your aesthetics. Users set up categories (known as boards) and pin images by clicking a browser plugin or bookmarklet. Unlike some visual collections, a link to [...]
12/13/2010
My abbreviated version of the Y-Combinator funding application
A few weeks ago the application for funding that Dropbox submitted to Y-Combinator (the VC firm that ended up funding them) was posted online. Nothing confidential was revealed, but is serves as a great example of how a successful startup thought through their product launch. While not all of the questions pertain to those of [...]
10/08/2010
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious + Instapaper
I’ve tweeted about it, told everyone I know, and am now writing a blog post about it. That’s how great Packrati.us is. I’m not sure if I’m the standard use case for Twitter, but ultimately Twitter is a replacement for my RSS reader. Google Reader failed for me, it was all business, and Facebook is [...]
08/24/2010
Free Web UI Sources
Mashable has collected 10 sets of great UI templates for Photoshop, Illustrator and Omnigraffle. These sets include everything from icons, to skin-able vector buttons, to browser specific form elements that can really speed up the prototyping process. The posts get a little redundant if you go through the entire list, but there are definitely some [...]
06/01/2010
Seen a font and want to know what it is? Check out What The Font.
Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the [...]
03/10/2010
TestSize.com – Test Your Site at Multiple Sizes
Designers have a distorted view of the web. We all have huge monitors and speedy computers and it’s easy to forget that your average web user isn’t always so lucky. Testsize.com is a simple web app that allows you to easily check out how your site will display on monitors of varying size. To use [...]
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