A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I love seeing creative logo designs. There’s something sublime about a logo that manages to find just the right intersection of creativity and simplicity.
Culled from Intantshift’s 101 logos as well as other logo collections, here are some of my favorite clever and minimalist logo designs.
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Last week we got hit by the Google slap on one of our Adwords campaigns that we’ve been running for a long time. Overnight, traffic went to zero – the domain was nuked – even the content ads stopped running.
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This is a guest post by Nick Reese. Nick is a fellow internet marketer and blogger. Follow Nick on Twitter.
Following Markus’ post on Top 5 Online Data Backup Services, he asked me to do a review of both SugarSync and Dropbox knowing that I have used both for over 9 months now.
Markus’ request couldn’t have come at a better time. Just a few weeks ago, my hard crashed wiping out all my entire desktop. Fortunately, I had installed both SugarSync and Dropbox so retrieving most of my data wasn’t an issue, I can’t imagine if I hadn’t.
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Checkout the follow up post, comparing Dropbox vs SugarSync.
Millions of people lose personal and sensitive data every year due to hardware failure, viruses, and simple negligence. The easiest way to protect your data is to develop a backup system.
Backing up your own data can prove to be complicated for novice and experienced computer users alike. Even if you implement a backup service, you’re still at risk if your backup and source are in the same physical location. The easiest way to make a secure backup of your data is to use an online backup service. Your data will be encrypted and uploaded to a server that is maintained by professionals, and you will be able to restore your data to your computer at any time. [Continue Reading…]
I’m a very casual domainer and have been buying some domains here and there over the last few years. One of the biggest mistakes I see new domainers make is buying domains with trademarked terms in them. I monitor NameJet for certain terms that drop, and have seen lots of obvious examples of trademark-ridden domains that have gone into auction at ridiculous prices. Do NOT be one of these people.
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