Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with search
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 [...]
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 [...]
02/01/2010
Iconfinder.net – Icon Search Engine
Iconfinder is a search engine for (you guessed it) icons. It’s a great source for graphic designers to get inspiration or even download icons for commercial use. A search for “music” yielded 12 pages of results, the first of which is displayed below. The site’s functionality is fairly basic but does allow you to change [...]
08/18/2009
Personas – How does the internet see you?
Personas is an amazing web app (with a Flex front end) that scours the internet for information based on a person’s name and builds a profile of how they are perceived online through natural language search. Since the application has no idea how to separate the list of people who share your name, it gives [...]
04/30/2009
Reverse image search
Tin Eye is a new type of image search that returns results based on the visual characteristics of an image instead of how you describe it using keywords. Don’t search for the word tree, upload an image (or paste the url) of a tree and Tin Eye collects similar images for you. Check out Tin [...]
