Over on the Tuts+ Premium blog, Skellie has listed 20 Must See TED Talks for Creatives. This is one of them.

“Kelli Anderson shatters our expectations about reality by injecting humor and surprise into everyday objects. At TEDxPhoenix she shares her disruptive and clever designs.”

There have been some great free app roundups on AppStorm over the last few weeks and months. If you haven’t seen them yet, they’re worth checking out.

Free App Roundups

Other App Roundups

If you’re not necessarily after free apps, here are some great roundups you’ll want to check out.

If you’re an active member of the Envato community, there’s a good chance you’re already aware that in late April, many Envato staff members set off to tropical Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to have our second ever staff conference and official community meetup! Over the two weeks in which we were there, we discussed a huge range of topics and laid out plans for the future of Envato. We worked as hard as we could to get the most value out of our time there and discussed many topics such as our company goals and values, our development priorities, the future of our brands, future sites and much, much more. In addition to this, we also spent a lot of time trying to get a deeper understanding of the fantastic community that make Envato special. It’s safe to say we all got a huge amount of value from the conference and are more motivated than ever to continue to deliver value to our awesome community – who are ultimately at the heart of the decisions we make.

As a company with staff spread throughout the world, we also finally got to meet people in some cases who we’ve known for years but never actually seen face to face. Friendships were solidified, working relationships enhanced and the overall sense of Envato as a team augmented.

We’re excited to announce some of what we discussed at KL 2012 to the community in the near-future and are committed to continually improving the experience our community has with our network moving forward. Whether you are on the Learning side or the Earning side (or both!) – we’ve got a huge amount of exciting stuff coming up!

In the meantime, we wanted to share with you a little video we put together of Envato KL 2012! We hope you like this little snapshot of what we got up to. Just a quick note, the shots of us talking intensely for hours upon hours were a bit drab, so we decided to throw some of the more fun stuff we got up to in the video!

Don’t forget to check out our Flickr stream to see some awesome shots from the conference!

This is the dark Windows 7 desktop of ThemeForest author Semicolonweb. I like it! Click the image for a full-resolution version.

The desktop is clean and simple – a working man’s desktop. No plugins have been used, and the wallpaper was taken from ThemeForest.

What do you think of Semicolonweb’s desktop? Let us know in the comments.

Would you like your desktop featured on Envato Notes? Upload your screenshot somewhere on the Web and let us know about it on our Write a Post page. Or upload it to Flickr and tag it with #envatonotesdesktops. Either way, add an interesting description. Each week we’ll choose and publish a new screenshot.

What graphics/photo editing software do you use? Have you invested in the industry standard, Adobe Photoshop? Have you picked up something less expensive from the Mac Appstore or Net, like Pixelmator or Photoshop Elements? Or are you satisfied with a free alternative, like the GIMP or Paint.net?

What factors influenced your choice? And are you happy with it?

What features do you use regularly? Do you just need to make basic edits to images that already exist, like cropping and resizing? Do you do more advanced edits? Or do you create sophisticated images from scratch?

Let us know in the comments!

Over on the Tuts+ Premium blog, Skellie has listed 20 Must See TED Talks for Creatives. This is one of them.

“Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context. At TEDxVancouver, he shares his moving projects, from graphing an entire year’s news cycle, to mapping the way people share articles across the internet.”

Do you love the design of Envato’s gorgeous websites? Would you like to know the secret formula, or at least get some tips from our amazing devs? You’re not alone!

While in Malaysia, Webdesigntuts+ editor Ian Yates had the opportunity to pick the brains of our designers and developers and pick up some amazing tips. I mean, what does a web design guru do in KL except talk design with other web design gurus!

Luckily for you he’s not keeping his discoveries a secret.  He collated some amazing tips from five different developers in a helpful article on Webdesigntuts+ called Five Quick Web Design Tips From Team Envato.

Here’s a list of the devs and designers he got to speak to, along with the tips they gave:

• Stuart Richardson: Multiple variants of one theme using Sass and Compass.
• Cameron Jones: Test your layout for responsiveness in seconds.
• Rodney Blackney: Gimme Bar FTW!
• Jacob Zinman-Jeanes: Never let your iPad out of your sight..
• Jeffrey Way: Don’t close your list items, let the browser do it for you.

So race over to Webdesigntuts+ now and check them out. Now!

What was your favorite tip? Let us know in the comments.

Legendary inventor Thomas Edison was once asked how he felt about the 1,000 failed attempts he made before creating the lightbulb. Mr. Edison had a great attitude towards the word fail.

“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Instead of thinking about failure, focus on how much to you have learnt! When you think of each pitfall as a lesson, you will get the most out of your experiences.

Basically this will allow you to tag your files with different services. So rather than uploading a WordPress theme into a Buddypress category,  you would instead upload it to the most relevant WordPress > Descriptive category and then use this field to add in any services the theme is compatible with (i.e. Buddypress, WooCommerce).

At this time, only WordPress themes are completely built out but more will soon follow including Joomla, Drupal, etc…

Update:  Mark Brodhuber has provided further information to help clarify.

It’s kind of a mixture of both here’s some more information. Within our current situation if an author submits a theme for a band or artist it would normally go under something like WordPress > Entertainment > … But lets say the theme author decides to integrate social aspects using BuddyPress. Right now the BuddyPress option would take precedence and the file would go under WordPress > BuddyPress. This type of categorization lacks the extra descriptive information gained with our descriptive child categories. Additionally, it limits the theme to only being classified as a “BuddyPress” theme.

Where as under the new method, an author could submit that same theme into the proper category of WordPress > Entertainment > XXX and then attribute it with BuddyPress. But he/she could also integrate other services like WooCommerce for sales. So now you could have a WordPress theme that’s categorized based on description, and then using the Compatible With attribute, it could be sort of tagged with both BuddyPress and WooCommerce.

Another nice thing about this new method is the way in which our items are displayed. If a WordPress theme with both BuddyPress and WooCommerce functionality was submitted before, the author would have to choose one of the three categories to place their theme in. Now it could technically be displayed in all three.

So to answer your question, compatible with should be used when a theme has been built and designed to not only work with the compatible addons selected. But these platforms should also be well integrated and styled to match the rest of the theme.

Just saying something like “tested BuddyPress with this theme and it works” is not sufficient.

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Note: This is a 2 part article. If you haven’t already read it, be sure to read part 1 first.

In part 1 we talked about various usages of items purchased with an extended license. In this part, we’ll discuss a couple of fringe cases that, after reading part 1, people tend to ask about, but it’s still worth clarifying.

If Item A is licensed under an extended license, and incorporated into a larger project, Item B, can Item B be offered for sale by Author B under an extended license?

As an example, let’s say I buy an extended license of a button graphic from GraphicRiver and incorporate that button into my WordPress theme. Can I sell an extended license of that theme? The answer is yes, as long as the original button graphic is only used as part of the theme, and not on its own.

We’ve clarified the regular and extended licenses to ensure that the original item that’s used in a larger project cannot be used on its own; it must only be used within the larger project. This is important for authors and buyers to understand.

How far can this chain go?

If item B can be sold with an extended license, does that mean that item B could also be incorporated into a stock item for sale, item C? Could that result in items C, D, E and so on, all using item A’s original file? Not in reality. That chain can only go so far. Remember, to sell it as stock, item B must be a larger project (see examples of what constitutes a larger project here). For example, a button graphic could be used in an image gallery for CodeCanyon. Technically, that image gallery could be used within a WordPress template. That’s where the chain stops. A template can’t be incorporated into a larger project and sold as stock. That’s as high as it goes. In all of our brainstorming, we couldn’t think of a single case in which the chain would exceed 3 steps.

Does our approach protect the authors of the original items sufficiently?  We think the balance is about right. First off, the vast majority of extended license sales are not for reselling the item as stock. Also, the extended license fee is higher in order to reflect this type of end-use possibility.  Authors can also now control the type of re-use that is considered “Limited Re-purposing” (a modification of an item for re-sale as stock).  And finally, there is only so far the chain can go.

We know some authors may disagree with this outcome, however if that’s the case you have the option to opt out of extended licensing altogether.  But we hope you won’t, as we have a vibrant community of authors who interact and build on ideas across our marketplaces.

We know that there are many other improvements that can and should be made to our suite of licenses.  We’re going to be working on some clarifications over the coming months.  While, due to technical constraints in our marketplace system, this won’t result in a radically different licensing system, we’re really hoping it will provide some much needed clarifications to our current licensing approach.

Questions?

I’m sure there’ll be plenty of questions as well as feedback. That’s why we’ve created this dedicated thread where we can discuss it all in one place.

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