Which icon is worse?

London Olympics 2012

Any Olympic Logo Ever

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We noticed several complaints at MyBiggestComplaint about the new logo for the London 2012 Olympics. What better forum to test the resolve of the logo than in Icon Battle. We obviously don’t have every Olympic logo represented, just a random sampling of the latest you might […]

Which icon is worse?

Google Earth Day

Yahoo! Earth Day

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So many things happened last week, Earth day seemed to come and go without much ado. Shocking really in the aftermath of the success of “An Incovenient Truth”.
It’s great that Google and Yahoo! acknowledge Earth Day with a logo change. One of readers tried to get Google […]

Last week’s Icon Battle was a bit of a ho-hum affair between TurboTax and TaxCut 2006. Not really too much to get excited about there, so at the risk of starting a raging flame war and crashing our servers, we are caving into requests to let the big boys go at it in this week’s […]

POLL CLOSED: TAXCUT 2006 DECLARED WORST ICON WITH 76% OF VOTES.

Which icon is worse?

TurboTax

TaxCut 2006

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The Last Icon Battle between Ubuntu and Debian dubbed “Brotherly Love” turned into a two week war of attrition complete with a militant insurgent attack. Debian pulled it out in the closest Icon Battle to date. Debian took the title […]

POLL CLOSED: DEBIAN DECLARED WORST ICON WITH 55% OF VOTES. Current Icon Battle

Which icon is worse?

Ubuntu

Debian

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We are branching Icon Battle out from our Mac OS X icons for this week. It’s been suggested we have a little “brotherly love” action in the ring for Icon Battle and pit Ubuntu vs. Debian.
I was a […]

POLL CLOSED: TEXTWRANGLER DECLARED WINNER WITH 69% OF VOTES.

Which icon is worse?

Cyberduck

TextWrangler

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This week’s Icon Battle is between two of my personal favorite free apps for Mac OS X, Cyberduck and TextWrangler.
I use Cyberduck daily and highly recommend it for all of your FTP needs. It’s free, well documented and easy to get along with. […]

POLL CLOSED: HANDBRAKE DECLARED WINNER WITH 72% OF VOTES.

Which icon is worse?

Handbrake

RsyncX

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Handbrake is everyone’s favorite DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter that forked and then unforked but is widely regarded as the worst OS X icon ever. RsyncX is the slick graphical version of rsync but the icon looks like a pill with the medical prescription […]