Found about 40 iOS resources (phone templates, UIs, etc.) before finding a single Android resource. That leads to nothing good for state of mobile design.
Oh for sure. I probably should write a blog post that lists all of those tricks aimed at selective news sourcing VS constant watching in fear that you miss something.
This is definitely the main issue I have with the site. I can produce exactly the same results on Dribbble itself by using the tags feature, but the "psd" tag doesn't actually mean you can download a PSD (the user just decided to tag it with "psd").
Usually the author (that posted it on Dribbble) will have a description of how he likes the PSD to be used - ie: Not for redistribution or doesn't want to see it used and reposted on Dribbble etc.
Safest bet - contact the author directly and clarify. You can find their contact info through Dribbble.
Personally when I find resources I'd like to use (mainly non print, commercially), I contact the authors directly and offer to buy a license. Everyone's pretty open and friendly.
Half the value of these sorts of resources is in having a clearly displayed license. If you're managing such a service why would you not require people to specify a license at upload (which could include "must contact me at user@example.com") rather than have each individual have to make the effort of establishing the license conditions?
I used http://www.stockfreeimages.com/terms.html recently, they have a clear statement of terms and each image download page has the copyright details on it; handy.
I'm not sure how Dribbble works, can you please clarify it for me?
I guess you need an invite to be a designer that posts work but do you need an invite to download the PSD or can you sign up on your own to download them?
It's a place for designers to show off their current work and projects by posting 400x300px shots. You can only post and comment however if you have been "drafted" (invited) by another player and those invites are pretty hard to come by - a good thing considering the quality of work that's on display. There's no member restriction on downloading any of the PSD's that the designers have posted - this site just scrapes those freebies into one location.
Themeforest has free files, but they're only free for one month as far as I know. They don't want to get their users into the habit of getting stuff for free, which is smart.
