Design Business Links 29 April 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • In wake of Amazon acqui­si­tion, ComiXology drops Apple in-app purchases
    “A side ben­e­fit is that ComiXology no longer has to wor­ry about any poten­tial Apple cen­sor­ship or pres­sure not to make cer­tain titles avail­able for in-app purchase.”
  • Is Ironic the Most Abused Word in English? Dictionary​.com Sets the Record Straight.

    Irony is often con­fused with sar­casm. While the two are sim­i­lar, in sar­casm there is a stronger intent to ridicule or mock, often harsh­ly or crude­ly. Dramatic irony is inher­ent in speech­es or a sit­u­a­tion of a dra­ma and is under­stood by the audi­ence but not grasped by the char­ac­ters in the play. Situational irony is an out­come that turns out to be very dif­fer­ent from what was expect­ed. This third type is the most prone to ambi­gu­i­ty and per­son­al inter­pre­ta­tion, set­ting up the poten­tial for mis­un­der­stand­ing, and misuse.”

  • Great Tip for Those Who Move Data Between Macs and Windows – Use the exFAT File System
    “From then on, that dri­ve should work fan­tas­ti­cal­ly between Mac and Windows machines. It won’t work with Linux unless you install Linux’s exFAT dri­vers, but for most peo­ple, exFAT is just about perfect.”