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Hi Mala!
Here's what I bought.
AppleMini-DPtoDVIAdapter
PartNumber:MB570Z/A
$29.00
Belkin-12HDMI:DVICable
PartNumber:TR843LL/A
$29.95
Note: This is for the MacBook Pro with the mini-video adapter. Older versions of the MacBook Pro have a different video connector (I think) but they don't have this DRM issue, so you could buy a VGA or composite video adapter instead.
eta: Oh, you'd also need a 1/8" stereo plug to stereo RCA adapter. You can find this at Radio Shack.
Oh, that reminds me, I did finally get the right adapter for my Env3. It was indeed a proprietary 2.5mm jack, and not the one sold by Verizon. Frustrating. But it all works now, and the adapter has a volume control and a mic with a send button so I can answer the phone while listening to music. Bonus.
I am tired of the sucktastic web access from my Virgin prepaid phone. Just discovered I could get a BlackBerry 8330 with a Boost prepaid plan. How good is the browser on an 8330?
What sort of sites are you usually viewing? The Curve is fine for stuff like this, lj, google, cta. Some blogs and sites aren't really set up for mobile access so can be kind of clunky.
Maybe I should say, what are the issues you currently have? I can probably tell you if I run into the same things.
Maybe I should say, what are the issues you currently have?
Mine is very slow, and the screen is too tiny. It takes too long to get to the right page on the CTA bus tracker, even though that site is optimized for mobile devices. Also, b.org is slow and takes too long to scroll through the pages.
Because of its limitations, those are really the only two sites I use.
Oh, thank you! I do have a newer MBPro with video adapter, so I think that is what I would need too.
OK, upon using the Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go data modem for a bit, I'm amazed at how much bandwidth Google Reader chews through.
Does it load a lot of info and then hide it from you dynamically?
I don't know wtf it's doing. For example, right now I'm scrolling through posts for a subscription, and all I see is text and some graphic for an ad that (I think) should already be cached, and yet 200k of data gets downloaded. But then when I click on the headline of a post and I see the actual page, many more hundreds of k gets downloaded.
Tommyrot, to respond to your email to Windowsparrow IRT to the Spring widget, no it does not work on her machine nor mine.
We are both running Tiger (10.4.11) on PowerPC processors.
I am able to get a quick blip of a red box to pop up in dashboard if i double click on the widget in the dashboard icon tray, but it goes away and leaves an X with a circle on it to close out. I can get a stack of those going if i keep clicking.
We rebooted her Powerbook, but no go.