Design Business Links 5 May 2014

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

  • 22 things cre­ative peo­ple do differently
    Here we go, with the 22 things cre­ative peo­ple do dif­fer­ent­ly than the rest.
  • 8 Tips for Looking your BEST in EVERY Shot: A Photographer’s Secrets to Posing like a Pro

    “Few of us actu­al­ly like get­ting our pic­tures tak­en. We feel awk­ward and uncom­fort­able. How should I stand? Where do I put my hands? What do you want me to do? As a pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­ph­er, these are ques­tions I am often asked. As busi­ness own­ers and in this era of social media, it is impor­tant to have flat­ter­ing images of our­selves. We do busi­ness with those we know, like and trust. The images we put out there is often the first impres­sion we make to our clients. Here are my eight tips to help you look and feel your best in your photographs.”

  • Warning: Anyone Can Recover Deleted Files From Your USB Drives and External SSDs

    “But this only applies to inter­nal dri­ves — USB flash dri­ves and exter­nal solid-state dri­ves are vul­ner­a­ble to file-recovery attacks.”

  • 7 IFTTT Recipes You Should Set Up For Easy Collaboration With Others

    “When you are col­lab­o­rat­ing with a group of peo­ple, IFTTT offers even more oppor­tu­ni­ties to auto­mate and sim­pli­fy the process of work­ing with oth­ers. The fol­low­ing are 7 use­ful recipes for any task or project you’re man­ag­ing that involves a group of people.”

  • How to Reclaim Dropbox Storage Space
    ” In this guide, I will show you some of my tips for reclaim­ing stor­age space on Dropbox with­out hav­ing to lose an arm and a leg.”
  • Same-Sex Spouses Can Amend Past Tax Returns for a Bigger Refund

    “This year, mar­ried same-sex cou­ples can file their tax­es joint­ly, pos­si­bly sav­ing mon­ey. What you may not real­ize is that you can also amend your tax­es from past years—and TurboTax has a cal­cu­la­tor that tells you how much you’ll get back.”

  • Typekit desk­top fonts now avail­able with free plans
    “In putting togeth­er our ini­tial col­lec­tion of free desk­top fonts, we want­ed to offer a use­ful selec­tion of type­faces that we feel look good and per­form well in a vari­ety of con­texts. Here are a few of our favorites:

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Curated by Pariah Burke