Designing a company logo is an important first step towards a successful business.  Starting a company logo design contest at 48hourslogo.com might be a great way to create your next company logo.

48HoursLogo.com was created to connect small business owners looking for logo designs with thousands of freelance logo designers all over the world. Company logo design is easy and fun for both clients and designers. For business owners, you can get a professionally designed company logo for less than 100 dollars. For logo designers, it is a great place to practice design skills, built up logo design portfolio, and earn extra cash.

Like the name suggests, many of the logo contests at 48HoursLogo run for only 48 hours, and depending on the project award offered by the client, there are usually anywhere between 30 to 100+ designs submitted for each logo contest, offering great selections for each company logo design.

Here are some highlights about company logo design contest at 48hourslogo.com

• Affordable – The option to start your company logo design for only $29, and pay the rest after seeing designs concepts is a great feature offered by the site.
• For every company logo design, you can get anywhere between 30 to 100 different logo concepts to choose from
• Fast – run the logo contest for only 48 hours.  Client can get a brand new logo in less than a week.
• Fast payout to the logo designers – Designers get paid 48 hours after completing each project.
• It absolutely free to join as a logo designer. It takes only takes 10 seconds to register

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Have you ever wanted to save an Embedded Video?  Because a couple of days ago I found this great browser add-on.  This add-on will allow you to download YouTube videos and any other embedded videos.  It’s called YouTube Videos Plus and it is available for Firefox, IE6, IE7 and IE8.  Click here to download YouTube Video Plus for free.   The browser add-on will add a toolbar to your browser. (View Image below)

In the Firefox version, you can disable the toolbar and still be able to download videos by right clicking on the page and going to Video Downloader.  After you download the add-on they have a great website to teach you how to use this add-on. http://vids.st/help/

The one problem I see about the add-on is that the videos you download are in FLV format. So you will need to convert the videos to a usable format.  But it does have a translate option on the add-on that is very useful.

Anyway check out the add-on and tell us what you think.

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In this tough economy it is always nice to be able to save money anywhere you can.  You see a few days ago I was shopping on Amazon.com and when I was checking out I needed a coupon.  This is where SuperCoolCoupons.com came in.    SuperCoolCoupons.com is a website that collects coupons from hundreds of online merchants.   One of the best features that I found on SuperCoolCoupons.com is the search feature.  Just type in the url of the site in the search box (example: amazon.com, apple.com, dell.com, etc…) and you will get coupon codes for that site to save you money.  SuperCoolCoupons.com is  a very straight forward coupon site that gives you the deals you want to find.  The website loads very fast and there are no annoying or distracting ads that you find on most Coupon sites.  The best part of this site is that it is user-driven. Meaning any visitor can submit new coupons.  You can also rate the coupon code to let others know if the coupon worked or not.

So if you need a coupon go to it will save you money!

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This week I’ve been working on a project that required data to be shown visually. I needed a Chart Script that was attractive yet gets the data across. The Charts scripts below are built using JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, and Java.

• Flot – Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. The focus is on easy usage , attractive plots and interactive features. With Flot you can interact with the data, look at specific data by zooming in, plot a time series, and other various options.
  
• Open Flash Chart – Open Flash Chart is a Flash charting component. It is fairly easy to setup and has classes written in PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, and .Net to connect to the Chart. You can create some really nice looking Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Area Charts and etc…
  
• AmCharts – AmCharts are animated interactive flash charts. The charts include Pie Charts, Line Charts, Scatter/Bubble Charts, Bar/Column Charts, and even a stock chart. AmCharts can extract data from simple CSV or XML files, or they can read dynamic data generated with PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Perl and ColdFusion. All the charts are free but they have a link to AmCharts on the upper left.
  
• Emprise JavaScript Charts – Emprise JavaScript Charts is a 100% Pure JavaScript Charting Solution that requires no JavaScript frameworks. Emprise JavaScript Charts include Line, Area, Scatter, Pie, Bar charts with zooming, scaling and scrolling ability. Tested and works with all major browsers.
  
• PlotKit – PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. PlotKit works with MochiKit javascript library. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support. PlotKit also has great documentation.
  
• Flotr – Flotr is a javascript plotting library based on the Prototype Framework version 1.6.0.2. Flotr lets you create graphs in modern browsers with features like legend support, negative value support, mouse tracking, selection support, zoom support, event hooks, CSS styling support and much more.
  
• PHP/SWF Charts – PHP/SWF Charts is simple yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data. You use PHP to gather the data and put it into flash. It supports many charts types, Line, Column, Stacked column, Floating column, 3D column, Stacked 3D column, Parallel 3D column, Pie, 3D Pie, Bar, Stacked bar, Floating bar, Area, Stacked area, Candlestick, Scatter, Polar, Mixed, Composite and Joined. These Charts have some great features like Animated transitions, Printable charts, and more.
  
• Visifire – Visifire (Powered by Silverlight) is a set of open source data visualization components. With Visifire you can create animated Silverlight Charts with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML.
  
• FusionCharts – FusionCharts is a cross-browser and cross-platform flash charting component that can be used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations. All you need to know is the language you’re programming in.
  
• JFreeChart – JFreeChart is an open source Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display quality charts in their applications. The JFreeChart project was founded seven years ago, in February 2000, by David Gilbert and is used by approximately 40,000 to 50,000 developers. JFreeChart supports many different output types that includes JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS and SVG. This is a great resource for Java developers.
  

If you know of any other Charting Scripts please post below.

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A couple of days ago when I wrote 14 CSS Tools to Save you Time I left some resources off that list because they weren’t CSS Tools, but they do save some time. The majority of these tools are generators that create all sorts of useful graphics. These tools range from Background generators to a rounded corner generators. Below is the list of Web 2.0 Generators.

Background

• Background Image Maker – Background Image Maker allows you to create backgrounds with the choice of stripes, gradients, and dot background style.
• Stripe Designer – Stripe Designer allows you to create any type of stripe or texture you want, with any color you want.
• Stripe Generator – Stripe Generator allows you to create a stripe background of any size and color. You can even add up to 5 colors for the stripes.
• Tartan Maker - Tartan Maker which is created by the same people who did Stripe Generator allows you to create a yarn like design.

• Web 2.0 Badges – Web 2.0 Badges lets you create all sorts of bursts and symbols with any text you want. It also lets you have gradients and very nice colors.
• Fresh Badge – Fresh Badge is another badge creator that allows you to select different types of shapes, colors, text, text effects, and more. You can save the badge you create in png format.
• Official Seal Generator – Official Seal Generator allows you to write text, choose a border, an emblem, and pick your colors to create an official looking seal for your website.

• My Cool Button – My Cool Button is an online tool that you can create a button that you want. My Cool Button features 3 shapes, 50+ fonts, 170+ icons.
• Buttonator – Buttonator is a button generator that allows you to create many different variations of buttons.

• ButtonGenerator – ButtonGenerator allows you to create single buttons and has an option to buttons for navigation.

Domain

• MakeWords - MakeWords is a domain name generator that creates random words that you either supply or you don’t. It lets you know what domain name is available.
• NameBoy – NameBoy creates domain names based on a word that you want in your domain. It then tells you what domain is available.
• Dot-o-mator – Dot-o-mator is a web 2.0 domain name generator that allows you to select words and then have it combine them to form a domain name.

Favicon

• Favicon Generator - Favicon Generator takes an image that you upload and makes it into a favicon.
• Favicon.cc – Favicon.cc allows you to create a favicon icon online without having to upload any file.
• Favicon Editor – FaviconEditor allows you to upload a photo or you can create a favicon.

Gradients

• Gradient Maker – Gradient Maker allows you to generate a gradient of 3 types, with instant previewing so you get exactly what you had in mind.
• Gradient Texture Generator – Gradient Texture Generator allows you to create up to 4 different types of gradients with any colors that you want.
• Online Gradient Image Maker and Button Generator – This generator is the most in depth I’ve seen it has so many different options. It is a must see for any one.

• Web 2.0 Logo Creator – Web 2.0 Logo Creator generates a web 2.0 logo. All of the logos that this generator creates will have all the same styling.
• Logo Creator – Logo Creator has a few different styles to choose from and it works pretty well.
• Logo Generator – Logo Generator allows you to create logos with any color you want and with any background. You can even add a symbol to the logo.
• Web 2.0 Stylr – Web 2.0 Stylr is another Logo creator that allows you to change the gradient of the text and the background color.

Rounded Corners

• RoundedCornr – RoundedCornr is a very in depth rounded corner generator. RoundedCornr has 4 different types of rounded corners and the output gives you CSS and html.
• Cornershop – Cornershop creates 4 rounded corner graphics and gives you the css and html to implement the corners. You specify the color and radius of the rounded corners you would like.

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