Don’t you hate when you design something, only to find it stolen and sold by another company? Check out these two images:
The one on the left is a shirt by All Saints Apparel. The one on the right is a Valentine card by Mitch. Totally identical. It seems someone liked the design so much they snagged it and turned it into a shirt. Here is the original post about it at 4 color rebellion:
Zounds!
Posh London retailer All Saints Apparel plagiarized a shirt design from the gaming site 4 color rebellion. The site originally unveiled the ‘You Complete Me’ tetris-heart figure for Valentine’s Day in 2006. Designer Mitch was surprised to find that All Saints had plastered the exact same design on a shirt selling for £40—that’s like, $90! Mitch asked All Saints for an explanation, which was enough to prompt a decent resolution.
Well, luckily it looks like this has come to a happy ending. According to this post on the consumerist all is well:
You know, I didn’t expect it to happen, but things actually did end up with (somewhat of) a happy ending. I managed to get back in touch with the head of Manches, the guys that do administrative or production or whatever for All Saints, and we managed to work out a settlement.
Because they deal with plagiarism of their stuff a lot, they were apparently very receptive and sympathetic. Apparently, designers get about 2 - 3 percent of the profits in royalties. I managed to squeeze 7.5% out of them. So, that equals out to about $2,400 with the weak dollar.
Long story short, I’ve licensed the design to them for this run, and I’m still in ownership of it.
All in all, they were kind to me about it - however, from what I hear, them paying me wiped out all of their profit on these shirts. Should teach their designers a lesson!
Good for him! I hope designers start learning the internet is a good place for ideas, but not a place to steal whatever they want to profit!
I finally got around to taking some nicer pics of Jessica’s ring, but the camera still didn’t want to focus right. Oh well. It’s a beautiful ring and everyone always asks to see it, but Jess doesn’t follow me around everywhere, so now you can look here!
Nice, huh? 
You can click the links to see the images a little larger, and for those wondering, we got it custom-made from Whitehall Jewellers!
Seems I forgot the “Author” image in my about section up top… how’d I manage that?
Well, it’s there now… good ol’ Black Mage leading the way!
While I was imaging a laptop in the office today I noticed a connection named “Free Public Wifi” on the Windows Wireless Network Connection screen. I found this quite odd for a few reasons…
- It was a PC to PC connection
- My office building is by an airport in the middle of nowhere
- We have only two wireless connections in our building
Being the nosy person that I am, I thought I’d google to see if this is something others have seen. Imagine my (lack of) surprise… it’s a scam! It seems people are sitting around at airports and using this “free” wifi connection to get into your system… nice.
A quick snippet from the article:
The next time you’re at an airport looking for a wireless hot spot, and you see one called “Free Wi-Fi” or a similar name, beware — you may end up being victimized by the latest hot-spot scam hitting airports across the country.
You could end up being the target of a “man in the middle” attack, in which a hacker is able to steal the information you send over the Internet, including usernames and passwords. And you could also have your files and identity stolen, end up with a spyware-infested PC and have your PC turned into a spam-spewing zombie. The attack could even leave your laptop open to hackers every time you turn it on, by allowing anyone to connect to it without your knowledge.
If you’re a Windows Vista user, you’re especially susceptible to this attack because of the difficulty in identifying it when using Vista. In this article, you’ll learn how the attack works and how to keep yourself safe from it if you use Windows XP or Vista.
You can read the article here: Don’t fall victim to the ‘Free Wi-Fi’ scam @Computerworld
Today is Neowin’s 5th Birthday! I hope everyone is enjoying the festivities! Also, if you didn’t already check, here’s a preview of Neowin 5.0… the link is inside (make sure you look… I spent most of my time in Denver workin’ on it on my laptop). I hope it’s enough to hold you over for awhile. 
Okay, back to the old grind, if I don’t make these images, who will? 
