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Nothing to Prove: Geek Girls and the Doubleclicks (video)

Wil Wheaton shared this on Google+. It’s awesome. Watch it.

Useful links: BlogHer, Flexbox, Promote Yourself

BlogHer has an new, clean makeover to brag about. Their aim is to make it easy to find your way to great content by women bloggers on the original bloggers site. An impressive goal.

Does Flexbox Have a Performance Problem? CSS Tricks is trying to figure it out. You can help.

8 Tips for Promoting Your Dev Skills. There are some you may not have thought of.

Useful links: Wearable tech, placeholder text, CSS Zen Garden

Motorola building a ‘world-class’ wearables design group says The Verge. I hope Motorola will make me one of those high tech suits like Rachel Nichols wears in Continuum. That suit makes the stuff we thought was cool in The Matrix look antique.

Using placeholder text in HTML5 forms across all browsers comes from TechRepublic.

CSS Zen Garden is back at the same old URL with a responsive design and a whole new set of design challenges and opportunities for web designers from all over the world.

Useful links: Troubleshooting CSS, Carousels, Accessible Forms, Smart Dust

Troubleshooting CSS is from Codrops.

I mentioned my new blog yesterday. I was thinking about using a carousel on it. Now Jared Smith and Craig Grannell are saying this: Accessibility Expert Warns: Stop Using Carousels. Well, Jared, you convinced me.

Making an Accessible form with ARIA, part 1 is from Deque.

No, Google Glass is not the ending point of Moore’s law, just another step along the way. Smart neural dust could carry sensors deep into the human brain, send data back out is further proof of where we’re going as a society with technology. So why can’t we find a form of energy that doesn’t create a hot planet?

Big Personal Announcement

Announcement: I’ve officially lost my mind.

I started a new blog. Not about technology. It’s Old Ain’t Dead and is about pop culture. With this blog and my writing prompt blog, First 50 Words, that makes 3 blogs I am attempting to keep up on a regular schedule.

If you have any interest in pop culture come pay me a visit. It’s only been online for one day so there’s a lot of work yet to do, but it’s a start.

Lost.My.Mind.

2 Ways to Get a PDF onto an iPad

I wanted to save a PowerPoint presentation I had prepared as a PDF and transfer that PDF to my iPad. If I could make that happen, I could travel for a presentation without having to drag my computer along.

I emailed it to myself and opened it with my Xfinity email app. There was no way to do anything with it there except print. The problem was with Xfinity. Downloading from Gmail seems to present similar problems.

I found two ways that worked.

I put it on Dropbox and could open the PDF file with my iPad from there. This was super easy, but if you don’t have a Dropbox account all is not lost.
I mailed it to my Mac Mail account. There were several options for saving it from the Mac Mail app.

Mac Mail Tips

In Mac Mail I could tap and hold the icon for the PDF file and a menu opened up with several options. The options you see here are reflections of what I have installed on my iPad. You would have at least iBooks in your options. Note that the document was attached in the body of the email.