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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.
Hmm. I just copied and hacked someone else's app. Perhaps it was for a later version of OS X but I didn't realize that could be an issue.
The original code was created by Dashcode. Wikipedia sez:
Dashcode is a software application created by Apple Inc. that is included with Mac OS X Leopard and facilitates the development of widgets for Dashboard. It was first included on new MacBooks shipping around the time of May 24, 2006, as part of the Xcode developer tools.
Huh. Dashcode was new with Leopard. Maybe the code it creates isn't backward compatible with Tiger?
tommyrot,
you may want to turn off the offline features of google reader.
Also, I have used gmail and google reader mobile versions when I'm on a metered data connection so I don't blow it out.
Also, I have used gmail and google reader mobile versions when I'm on a metered data connection so I don't blow it out.
Cool. I was wondering if that was possible.