http://logoblink.com/ might be the best blog dedicated to logos that I’ve come across.

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Ok, maybe that headline is a little harsh. Photoshop, you know I love you. We’ve been together for over 10 years, and no other software can take your place. Not yet, anyway…
Still there are three pretty decent alternatives in the form on online software which are looking to give photoshop a run for it’s money.
Phoenix [...]

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BlueFly has been on my watchlist for a few years now. They always manage to put that extra effort into design to make things look good.
After my post about the virtues of keeping things simple in email design, Bluefly shows that ‘busy’ designs can work just as well… This email from BlueFly is really nice, [...]

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Deadline: March 6, 2009
Enter the most prestigious competition for creativity in photography, the 50th annual Communication Arts Photography Competition. Any photograph first printed or produced between March 12, 2008 and March 6, 2009 is eligible. Selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and photographers, the winning entries will be published in [...]

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I couldn’t help but enjoy the recent email I got from PayPal. Very simple. Super-easy to digest. 
 

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Check out the MINI Space Design Competition. From the site:
“Reinterpret the topic “Electrified” by designing a background for the MINI Space website. Win exposure, fame and prizes! Gert Hildebrand, director of MINI Design, and his team will choose their favourite design, which will be awarded with a shiny new, lightweight MacBook Air!”

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iTrello Free Web Hosting

Free hosting provider iTrello Launched a redesign in conjunction with crossing the 10,000 user milestone. The new site is clean and simple and now includes web marketing, development and SEO articles.

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I know this is good news, but all I keep thinking in the back of my head is, “Great, another browser to worry about when I’m creating websites…”
Read Google’s Official Post on the new Browser

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I’m writing this post from the iPhone wordpress app. It’s pretty freakin sweet – very simple and easy to use.
I also upgraded our wordpress installation to v 2.6.1 or whatever was the latest. It was a little painful- but not so bad.
Hopefully some new updates for the site are just around the corner.

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Just in case you’re in the middle of designing a new condiment packet and needed some inspiration, here is a collection of like 700+ condiment packets…

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I imagine this has been around for a long time, but I recently came across the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. There’s also a ~28MB 400+ page PDF available.
Surprisingly enough, I found the interface for the guide to be clunky, somewhat difficult to use, and really painful to try to read (probably due to text stretching to full [...]

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I hate looking this stuff up and I don’t do it enough to remember so here goes:

Logging in: mysql -u <username> -p
list or show all databases: show databases;
open or start using database: use <database name>;
list or show all tables: show tables;

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I’m not a big fan of intermediate landing pages, but this one is so well done, I had to mention it: http://marketing.beatsource.com/landing_pages/gateway/
 

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So due to the overwhelming pressure to conform and be ‘cool’ like all those other developers, I started using Lightbox2 to make that cool floaty image on top of greyed out content functionality. I must say, it was really really easy to do. I did it for the first time on a site (still in [...]

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Deadline for Entries: April 1, 2008
Enter your great web designs in STEP’s Best of Web Design Competition sponsored by Jupiterimages Unlimited and get the recognition you deserve. Winners will be interviewed and prominently featured in the Best of Web Annual [September|October 2008 issue].
Enter your …

Entire Website
Web Advertising [web banners, pop-ups, etc.]
Motion Graphics

… in these categories

Business
Consumer
Self-promotion
Nonprofit [...]

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