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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.

Adding an IFTTT trigger aimed at HN's RSS feed with filter by "free" paid off again.

Hahaha, this is a good idea!

I read that "book" is also a good one.

I need to buckle down and write an RSS reader. Or find one that fits my use case.

Hopefully one that's not based on Google Reader; they're few and far between.

Tied to a propriety service? Why even use RSS?

I've no idea. I can't find a single decent Mac / iOS client that's not based on Google Reader.

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.

Looks like it is just doing a tag search for PSD, so many of those shots don't actually contain a free PSD to download.

One option to reduce the noise might be to grep for URL's in the comment and attachment that point to downloadable files.

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").

I can't seem to find license agreement anywhere for the PSD's. Is there a license agreement so these PSD's can be used?

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.

It varies too much, that's why the service doesn't link to the psds directly when available. Usually the creator will specify some loose terms.

Freebbble is less populated, but contains license information for each item. http://freebbble.com/

Disclaimer: I develop it.

Creator here. If you have a spare dribbble invite and think this is worthy, I'd love one!

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.

Were you inspired by http://throwww.com for the name?

Inspired by a basketball free throw, considering dribbble already has that theme going for it.

If you found this useful, take a look at 365psd.com (with whom I'm not affiliated)- they're really high quality and have been very useful.

This seems... likely to be somewhat contrary to the interest of dribbble and the designers who have uploaded these.

91 pages of PSDs. Add search and filtering by tags, please! Other than that, this is amazing.

Another similar option: http://psddd.co/

I suggest displaying 24 items per page, so there is no blank spot at the end when it displays 3 items per row. 24 obv works great with 2, 3, and 4.

Another suggestion would be to have an alternative viewing/layout such as infinite scroll in addition to the paginated one you've got.

Done

The lazy scroll-loader is quite lagged, you might want to add some anticipation.

Also: http://fribbble.com/

wow, didn't know dribbblers lurked hn. nice to see that.

Someone needs to do this for Themeforest themes haha

Can you explain what you mean? Do "this" how? Like when a Themeforest theme is free or something? Or just a better gallery of Themeforest themes?

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.

Would be nice to credit the designer on the site.

Just passed it to our design team. They liked it!

A "View All" option would be awesome!

Bookmarked. Thank you!

This is amazing. Thank you!

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