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We’ve collected the top four reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in August. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, iPad, Web, or Android apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the AppStorm Network you’ve never seen before!
Thanks for reading AppStorm, and I hope you enjoy looking over some of our favourite posts from last month!
We’re excited to bring you Part Two of our tips and tricks for authors to Getting Your File Approved! If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Part One, where we covered common technical problems and rejections. This week, we’ll be looking at design and licensing issues! These tips come right from the hard-working team members who review your files, written by the fantastic bgm, Ben Gibbin. Lets pick up where we left off!
This post originally appeared on the GraphicRiver blog in 2009. Most of Ben’s points are still applicable today.
Introducing Flowtorch.co.uk! It’s 100% free!
Quite recently, I’ve stepped up my online business a little, increasing my sales on here, increasing my eBay sales, and really increasing my client work – not to mention my day job too. The problem I became faced with was having multiple streams of finance and losing track of what cash came from where.
I didn’t want to sign up to paid financial management services, and I didn’t want to sign up to services like Mint, who’d have the banks sending me offers and such like.
I also wanted something simple, without all these options to manage investments and crap like that.
So I thought I’d see how well I could do it myself, using items from the Marketplaces to help me out. So what can you do with Flowtorch?
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Congratulations to this week’s featured marketplace authors.
ActiveDen Featured Author: ASIMANCAOur current featured author here on ActiveDen is ASIMANCA who joined in August 2009, has a portfolio of 20 items for sale and has racked up 332 sales!
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AudioJungle Featured Author: scoringaudiogeeksOur current featured author here on AudioJungle is scoringaudiogeeks who joined in June 2011, has a portfolio of 88 items for sale and has racked up 72 sales!
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ThemeForest Featured Author: ProgressionStudiosOur current featured author here on ThemeForest is ProgressionStudios who joined in July 2010, has a portfolio of 10 items for sale and has racked up 1898 sales!
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VideoHive Featured Author: BuddyFXOur current featured author here on VideoHive is BuddyFX who joined in January 2011, has a portfolio of 8 items for sale and has racked up 85 sales!
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GraphicRiver Featured Author: kinzi21Our current featured author here on GraphicRiver is kinzi21 who joined in December 2009, has a portfolio of 47 items for sale and has racked up 2763 sales!
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3DOcean Featured Author: KonradRakowskiOur current featured author here on 3DOcean is KonradRakowski who joined in April 2011, has a portfolio of 59 items for sale and has racked up 13 sales!
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CodeCanyon Featured Author: dijitalsOur current featured author here on CodeCanyon is dijitals who joined in July 2009, has a portfolio of 5 items for sale and has racked up 1257 sales!
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PhotoDune Featured Author: homydesignOur current featured author here on PhotoDune is homydesign who joined in August 2011, has a portfolio of 526 items for sale and has racked up 13 sales!
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It’s kinda crazy to think, but our little internet startup, Envato, has been on the air now for five years. We started back in 2006 as four very enthusiastic and totally green entrepreneurs with a shoestring budget and a love of the web. Fast forward five years and while we’re hopefully a little less green, we’re still incredibly passionate about Education, Marketplaces and the web! It’s been an amazing time and we’d like to share a look inside our Melbourne HQ offices, some stats about Envato and a big thank you to the community.
Going to school in Greece, being “a disgusting and funny guy”, having speakers you really like, and watching anime. This week we meet Danaos Christopoulos (DanaosC) from VideoHive.
Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?
Hello, my name is Danaos Christopoulos, and I am a 16-year-old Motion Graphic Design student living in Rhodes, Greece, and I am currently self-learning.
I do accept freelance jobs when I have the chance, but the main source of income is from the Envato marketplaces. As a high school student, I am not able to work in some company or anything, so Envato is my best and only choice.
I haven’t really gone abroad or anything, but I want to visit Japan someday.
This is where CodeCanyon author Christophe Debruel (Krike) gets creative and productive. It’s a Mac-centric workspace with lots of accessories and a collection of colorful balls with mixed emotions.
Christophe’s 27″ iMac has a second monitor, a very full dock, and an Apple wallpaper that makes me think of granny smiths. He has a keyboard dock for his iPad, and a speaker dock for his iPhone.
Do you enjoy dangerous wallpapers? Do you love to feature Envato on your desktop? Are you attracted to things to hot to hold? Then maybe this wallpaper is for you! (Click the image to check it out on Flickr.)
It packs a punch, and was created by ThemeForest author Lucky Kind. Thanks Lucky!
Love Envato? Love wallpaper? Then check out our huge collection of Envato wallpapers on Flickr. You won’t be sorry!
Exploring Las Vegas, working 20 hours a day, minimal weight training, and watching The Big Bang Theory. Meet the ThemeForest team.
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that actual human beings sort through each and every submission to ThemeForest on a daily basis. The following staff members are highly active in the community forums, and review one or more categories. They’re friendly, so feel free to say hi to them!
The AppStorm team have been hard at work again. Here is a huge bunch of great free apps and web services they covered.
Kickoff: A Native Collaboration App for Small GroupsKickoff certainly had a bumpy launch a few weeks ago. The app got so many downloads that their server broke within a few hours of launching, and, as a result, many users where seeing problems with the app, such as crashing or no syncing between accounts. Then they got some unfortunate news that no developer would ever want to hear: Apple rejected the app when they tried to update it. The reason? It was a subscription service and was therefore not allowed in the App Store, despite being approved twice before.
This was surely an unfortunate time for Kickoff. Still, those guys wouldn’t take no for an answer. They have taken it all on the chin, as seen on their blog, and they now offer it as a direct download from their site.
So, has the team learned from their mistakes? Have they made the app more solid and robust to handle all of their traffic? Most importantly, should you invest your well earned money into their service? Read on after the break to find out.
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