All promotions starts with Perfect Logo

A logo design is like your company's face to the world. Its purpose is to uniquely identify your company and brand by making an indelible first impression on clients and customers. So if your logo is going to look very inconsistent on your various promotional marketing materials then that's going to be a problem. Reduce this hassle by starting out with an easy to reproduce logo.

Ask your marketing consultant about your logo before you approve it from your designer, because he will think of promotional merchandise and marketing activities for your business before he approves it or more simple is ask your self the following to make sure you have a perfect logo

Here are 5 basic things to consider:

1. What type of image are you going for? Do you want a descriptive logo with images or just a play on words?

2. What basic color would you like to use to represent your business? Will it fit in with your color scheme that is already in place on your web site or in your business correspondence?

3. What is the most important feature of your business that you would quickly like to convey? Is it a product or a service?

4. Do you want a complex or simple logo design? Large corporations like Nike or Target do well with simple, but a new small business might need more to make it memorable since it won't have the huge exposure that the big guys can afford.

5. Do you want your business name to be part of your logo? Small businesses may find this feature more important because of their need for exposure without the capital for large scale advertising services

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National Candy Cane Day

Today, December 26th is National Candy Cane Day. It's a celebration of the popular holiday candy traditionally eaten during the Christmas season. Much more than a candy, these peppermint red and white canes are symbolic and are used as decorations. But just because the holiday season is over, it doesn't mean that candy canes can't be used during promotions. Christmas in July promotions, or comedic Santa in the Spring events can be enhanced using promotional candy canes. Imprinted with custom messages, they can be included in mailings, or combined with other gifts to drive the theme.

The Benefit of Corporate Holiday Cards in Creating New Connections

Our life is all about connections. In personal lives as well as in the business world, connections with other people are what it is all about. For companies, connections are where the success in business is found. Relationships with customers, with colleagues along with with workers are all essential parts of a successful enterprise. Giving corporate promotional gifts for Xmas and birthday acknowledgements is a great way to create fresh relationships as well as bolster relationships already available. Such greetings can be a simple good will wish for the season or birthday or they may be expressions of gratitude for the person's involvement in the company's good results.

Corporate holiday cards, mailed for Christmas or birthdays to customers, associates as well as staff members are a well known means of keeping in touch with those who work in the business world circles the firm moves in. By giving these items which offer thanks or appreciation as well as wishes of good cheer, organizations get noticed and hopefully potential business relationships also.

Clientele who're presently dealing with the firm will appreciate the sentiments of thanks along with the good wishes for the holiday season or birthday in question.

Other patrons, such as prior clients who receive corporate holiday cards, may be inclined to revisit the company and rekindle business by buying anew the products or services offered by the enterprise that sent those greetings. Being reminded of the quality product or a nicely preformed service through corporate holiday cards is a great way for a past customer to be nudged into coming back.

If potential customers look at the top quality corporate holiday cards with an positive message of good cheer as well as appreciativeness, they'll likely remember that business when they are faced with a need this company can fulfill down the road.

Connections with personnel, clients and associates in the business world are the groundwork of a good, solid enterprise that is profitable. Corporate holiday cards play a small yet vital role in the building and maintaining of relationships between the firm which sends them and also the people that receive the cards. Whenever customers feel appreciated and noticed, they're likely to remember that emotion and support the firm later on. That support might be repeat business interactions or positive word of mouth testimonials to loved ones, buddies and co employees that could result in a lot more sales for the future. Corporate holiday cards are certainly a great investment.

Intel Core 2 Duo and Extreme Processors

For a company like Intel to stumble and that too, badly, for the two years prior to the launch of the now runaway hit, the Core 2 Duo has been quite an experience (not to be confused with the P4, Core Duo - whereas the P4 Core Duo could complete three instructions per cycle, the Core 2 Duo can complete 4 – and that is without talking about processing power and efficiency). Especially when the underdogs, AMD had almost overtaken it.

But then, all that has changed with the introduction of the Core 2 Duo and the rest. It was when Intel decided to scrap the Netburst micro-architecture that never reached the potential that Intel believed was possible, and focused on the Pentium M architecture designed by their Israeli team that things started brightening up.





The architecture of the chip is simply known as Core, of which the products include Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme. Both run on an 1066 MHz FSB bus and are built using 65nm transistors. Again, both are dual core chips, with the Core 2 Extreme coming with a higher cache and a higher clock speed. (There is also a workstation version of the Core architecture – Woodcrest Xeon.)

These processors are built on a 143 sq mm die and are made up of 291 million transistors, regardless of their L2 cache size. While rivals AMD use 90nm tranistors on their chips, Intel uses the 65nm ones.

Code named ‘Conroe’, Intel’s Core 2 Duo will have a mobile counterpart, named ‘Merom’.
Following are the various versions of the Core 2 Duo that are available.




Testing by PC World and others show that the Core 2 Duo processors are the fastest amongst the range considered for the desktop PCs. (Of course, we haven’t talked about the Quad Core ‘Kentsfield’ series from Intel – consisting of two Conroe chips.)

Apart from that, the Core 2 Duo series boasts of lower power consumption, resulting in lesser heat and higher performance.

Of course, the disadvantage is that you cannot use the processors on your existing motherboards as these processors - though they sit on the same Socket 775 interface as with the earlier Pentium 4 sockets – require different chipsets. Major manufacturers are ready with their motherboards which can use these Intel powerhouses, e.g. Gigabyte, ATI, nVIdia.

While it is difficult to say that whether investing in a Core 2 Duo motherboard makes sense in terms of longevity and it is known that the processor is incompatible with a lot of Pentium-compatible chipsets, it depends on the customer to make the call.

Processor Slots

These are used to attach the Microprocessor or Main Processor to the Motherboard. Mainly, there are three types of slots are available. (a) Pin Type Slot (b) Slot One (c) Socket Type.


(a) Pin Type Slot : This slot is used from the 80286 Stage to Pentium 4 Stage. This slot is in White Color with Holes for Processor. The holes of the slot are according to the processor type. In this slot we can attach Microprocessor and Heatsink with Fan.


(b) Slot One : This Slot is introduced in Pentium II Stage, and used till Pentium III 600 Mhz., Stage. The Slot is in Brown Color, looks like a Big PCI Slot. In this slot, we can attach Processor along with the Heat Sink and Fan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Socket Type : This is the Latest Slot which are used to attach Pentium D, Dual Core, Core 2 Duo and Quad Core Processors. It is introduced from Intel 915 Chipset Motherboards and still is in use with Intel 945, Intel 965 and later Motherboards. Oppositely to the Pin Type Slot, this slot is having Pins to attach the Processor.

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 "Good 'lil Board" 2010-06-18
By T. Newman (MPLS, MN USA)
I needed a low wattage board to power my Skype phone, run video conferences, and surf the web. This board handle the load at 26-31 watts [complete with drive]. Speedy ... no. Does the job ... definitely.

 "Outstanding product for the price" 2010-06-14
By GB (PA)
Bought this board to build a small size PC to use while on vacation in my travel trailer or truck.



The good points..



Extremely small



Very low power usage, I used a Mini ITX case that accepted full size 5 1/4 DVD burner and used a 250 gig 3.5 inch HD. System idle power draw was a mere 36W! If low power usage is what you are looking for this is the board to use.



Low power usage also is nice for lack of heat, this thing runs COOL, even the processor heatsink doesn't get very hot. The power supply in the case I purchased actually gave off more heat than the processor.



No processor fan is needed as long as the case has proper ventilation.



Dual core with Hyper Threading is plenty fast for most any thing I threw at it (except for HD video but that is not the fault of the processor or board, see my comments in the CONs part of my review)



XP works great with it and sees the two hyper threaded processors (it shows as 4 processors in the task manager.



Can access 4 gig of RAM (I ony installed 2 gig for my setup)



Has Legacy PS/2 keyboard, mouse, LPT, RS-232 ports.



CONs..



Since Intel was trying to keep the power usage down they did not use a very robust video card (it is built into the processor/chipset under the heatsink). This leads to the complaint that this board can not play HD video. It is not the fault of the processor and installing a decent video card into the PCI slot most likely will fix this issue. Playing HD video the Task Manager reported only 40% of the processor being used which means it can play the video but only if you have a better video card.



PCI only expansion slot, while PCI is a good type of slot the problem is that it is being phased out. I would have expexted a PCI Express instead.



Only 2 SATA ports and they are not Raid capable, this really should be 4 SATA ports at the least.



LPT, RS-232 ports are on headers on the system board and Inel does not include the connectors to bring it out to the world. If you want these features you will need to wire your own. Inel should have included the connectors with the system board (other manufacturers either include as part of the package or sell them seperate).



Ohter comments..



Over all, it is a good buy for a small dual core PC, I would consider buying another.

 "Save some power" 2010-06-01
By Sound Guy (St. Louis, MO)
I used this board with FreeNAS as storage for my various photos and audio files. It works great and FreeNAS allows you to spin the disks down when not in use. Overall I can keep a server online with 3TB of space for less than 20watts of standby power. Since I only use it about and hour each day it is a very green way to go. I only wish Intel thought to add a couple of additional SATA ports so this would be capable of supporting a better RAID type of back up. I also experimented with this board as a simple workstation (again low power) and for internet browsing and emai, it's more than enough. It's not a game machine or an HD movie watcher, but dragging down news videos off CNN and non-HD on YouTube it's just great. It has a spot for an onboard WIFI card if you want to go wireless.

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By Alexander Shen (San Ramon, CA)
This was the second mini-ITX board I've purchased and I must say that it's wonderful. I decided to go the Ubuntu route (USB Boot) and everything worked right out of the box. No setup was required for the audio, video or ethernet pieces. The board is very quiet, but that's probably because it doesn't have a fan built-in. Remember that when purchasing a board like this you have to purchase RAM and a power supply separately. Ah, and don't forget the SATA drive. I would absolutely recommend it for anyone who wants to get something setup and up and running quickly.



I'm mainly using it for simple productivity and internet surfing.



What I'm Using:

- Ubuntu 9.10 (Netbook Remix)

- 1x DDR2-800mhz Kingston RAM

- 1x PicoPSU micro power supply (90W)

- 1x Seagate 80GB notebook SATA drive

 "Great little board, low power." 2010-04-29
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Great little motherboard. I put it in a Apex case with 1tb hd, 4gb ram, and dvd/cdrom drive. I'm running Centos 5.4 64-bit and plan to use it as my server in my home office. It's very low power and totally silent. The only negative I have is that it would not boot from a cd-rom attached to a usb port. I had to buy a SATA cd-rom and boot Centos from that.




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Selecting a computer mouse

Selecting a computer mouse is worth a laugh, right? Wrong. For most of you who are not aware of RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury – caused due to repetitive movements involving a specific set of muscles and joints, e.g. – trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome etc.), this seemingly small little instrument can cause injuries that are pretty disabling.

Though the fact is that RSI depends more on the posture than on the computer mouse itself, we shall concentrate more on the mouse than on the posture in this article.

Coming back to the topic of selecting a computer mouse, we shall discuss a bit as we go along the criteria for selecting it.

Optical Mouse

Does it fit? - Amongst the various computer mice available, seek the one that best fits your palm. Of course, customization is not possible, but across the various companies and models, the size changes and that might make a difference.

What type do you need? -

a) If you are using the computer for general purposes, it is ok to buy the good old scroll mouse. This is the most common type of computer mouse that has a roller at the bottom and has two buttons and a scroll wheel on the top. It is the cheapest and most widely used.

Disadvantages? – The lint and the debris that get between the roller and the connectors do not let the connectors function properly. Moreover, the accuracy and response of this once mighty computer mouse is not at par with its counterparts today.

b) Suppose you are a graphics designer or a gamer and you do not get a response from your computer mouse that is good enough for you. Enter the optical mouse. It looks the same as a scroll mouse but underneath, there is no roller that slows up the response. Instead, optical mice use a red LED (Light Emitting Diode) that throws red light onto a surface, which bounces off and is captured by a CMOS (Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) sensor. Now, as you move the mouse, the variations in the image captured by the sensors cause the cursor on your screen to respond accordingly.

Why is it more accurate? – The image response works at close to a hundred times per second. Variations of the optical mice which use laser technology are also available in the market.

c) Want to operate the mouse at a distance? Have a problem with the wires connected to the mouse? That’s when you need a wireless mouse. Most wireless mice that are available in the market are pretty reliable and the best thing about them is the fact that they can be used even when there is no clear line between the PC and the mouse (which is not so in the case of an infrared mice). That is basically because they are radio-based (RF-Radio Frequency) devices and hence do not require any optical or physical connection with the computer.

Wireless Mouse

Issues? – The first of course is the fact that you will need to charge them up for operation. Secondly, the computer will need to have a receiver – an external device, a built in component or a special card that you can place in an expansion slot.

The Bluetooth computer mouse is a type of wireless computer mouse that uses Bluetooth technology to connect to a computer. Another is the RF mice that can operate from a distance of 33m.