In the demo, I assume you’re referring to the Home Portfolio Carousel.
You ca set featured posts or products by going to Theme Options> Home Layout, and moving the modules that you would like to appear to the active column.
The free theme gives you options for the Portfolio Carousel and the Recent Posts.
The Premium Version has options for products as well.
-Kevin
7/9
Well I can’t get it to work. The post carousel is enabled and a post type is selected but nothing shows up on the static home page. Too much trouble.
Well configuration is quite simple. Can you provide a link to your site so that I can take a look at why it’s not showing?
I just tested on my test site and was able to set this up in seconds.
-Kevin
7/13
Even if I purchased your premium version I don’t think it would allow me to use the marketpress plugin products with your post boxes. So I used the site builder to get what I wanted.