My friend and co-worker Dan Spencer was recently a victim to a domain thief. His site flyguydesigns.com and domain was hosted with godaddy one day, and then before he knew it, they allowed an unauthorized transfer of ownership to the domain and hosting account. After making over 10 calls yesterday to them, the summary is that they can’t help him. The hijacker has converted all of his “buy now” buttons into his/her own paypal account, and when a customer makes a purchase, they don’t receive any product. Not only is this a complete violation, but his reputation is now on the line. After years of building up traffic and sales from lots of hard work, it’s hard to believe that someone like godaddy would allow such a thing.

For the time being, don’t purchase anything from his site. If/when he gets this resolved, I will post again.

Jarad Johnson has a few words to say about this. Other comments and info on the Departika blog.

UPDATE
Thanks to commenter below for providing information on how digg helped David Airey get his domain name back, I’ve decided to push the digg thing a little harder and see if we can’t try and help out Dan a bit. Please take a second and digg it up.

This is a set of seamless contemporary vector patterns for any application you can dream up. A blend of bubbly, colorful, high-spirited patterns inspired by modern coffeehouse wallpapers and a blend of retro goodness. All eight of the vector patterns are the original work of Designfruit.

Included in this packet: 8 EPS files. Each file contains a seamless vector pattern. Download a free sample (677Kb).

Purchase this set for $17.99.
By purchasing this set, you are also agreeing that you have read and understand the the terms of use.

Departika just released a new set of high-res bug Photoshop Brushes, Beautiful Buggers. These Bug-themed, designs are a cinch to download and are perfect for scrapbooking, decorating your photography, enhancing an illustration and more. If you’re a digital scrapper, you need these in your arsenal.

These are some sweet, delicate, elaborate, fancy, wiry, ornate, bugs; and you need them bad. Put them in your pool of design assets, and you’ll be sure use them over and over again.

If you want scalable, the original vectors are available for a mere $29; a small price to pay for a slick vector set of bugs and modern, swirly, flowery things.

If you’re crazy, and you’re still unsure, check out the free vector sample. How kind.

And if you have a min, please give it a digg

Departika recently released a High-Resolution, Holiday Photoshop Brushes set. In addition to the Photoshop Brushes, you can purchase the PNGs and the EPS vector files. You’ll find angels, stars, snowflakes, trees, lights, ornaments, bows, bells and more. If you do scrapbooking or digiscrapbooking, these should compliment your holiday creations nicely. Use them to embellish your photos, or add flair to your designs, ads, etc. This is all fresh, original art from the folks at Departika, and just in time!

There are a few concerns about traffic and bandwidth on Departika’s temporary site, so if you have trouble getting in, please try again later.

Take me to the Departika, Photoshop Brushes, Holiday Design Set

A fancy ornamental set of seamless borders in vector format. Each border has a left and a right ending piece and a seamless center piece that can be duplicated to create any length of border. This download includes 6 decorative borders in the following formats:

• Adobe Illustrator CS2
• Adobe Illustrator 8
• EPS (compatible with most vector editing programs)

Download the sample file (1 free vector sample included with download).
Photoshop Brushes are not part of this release.

Please ask for permission for any use of the Baroque Bordersâ„¢ set that is not covered in the Terms Of Use. You can NOT use these designs for sale on stock photography sites!

Baroque Borders $8 (BaroqueBorders.zip 16.74 MB)

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• Material: 4.3 oz., 100% superfine cotton.
• Lightweight. Cut for women.
• This shirt runs small. Be sure to check sizing information.
• AdditionalPhotos and information about this style of T-shirt
• All shirts will be shipped next business day, but if I need to order more please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.
• Made in the USA.

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I commissioned some folks at Blacksuits Creative Departika to help out on some designs for this Valentine set of Photoshop Brushes, PNGs, EPS, and Illustrator vector art. There is quite a mix of ideas here. Thanks to Katie Canada, Dan Spencer, and Erik Rothrock for helping me put these together. Would have had them up earlier but my hosting company decided to shut down my site for a few days because my traffic was maxing out the CPU on their shared server. :)

I’m now on a Dedicated box. Whatever the heck that means. Hopefully that won’t happen again. I’m glad to be back…

There are 15 Brushes in this set. The brushes work with Photoshop CS and above. Anything before CS will require using the PNG files below. Buy this set for $11.99.

The original vector files for this set are available for $9.99. You must have vector editing software (such as Adobe Illustrator, or Macromedia Freehand) to edit this file. Included in this download is an AI, and an EPS file compatible with Adobe Illustrator version 8 and above. Preview of the Vector files.

For those of you using earlier versions of Photoshop or other editing software I offer a nicely zipped file of all 15 PNG files from this set. Buy this set for $11.99

Please ask for permission for any use of the Valentineâ„¢ set that is not covered in the Terms Of Use. You can NOT use these designs for sale on stock photography sites!


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