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The red, yellow, and white cables are old AV cables and will not give you an HD signal. The HDMI is probably the best way to go: they have a very flat metal connector, almost like a USB connector, and can carry both video and sound on that one connector. They will sell the cables at Radio Shack, though they're notoriously overpriced at brick and mortar stores. If you want to get it working tomorrow, that's your only choice, but if you can wait a few days you could order one from Amazon, monoprice.com, newegg.com, or even radioshack.com for less than $10. At the Radio Shack store it'll probably be closer to $20, if not higher.
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Red-yellow-white are composite - they can't carry an HD signal. The HDMI port is the one that looks kind of like a big USB port. Either HDMI or component cables should work, but don't buy them at Radio Shack - you can get either for much cheaper online.
Jessica,
here is the gizmodo list:
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Goodreader for Ipad is worth the additional price.
Penultimate, Iannotate PDF, Noteshelf, Writings, Notability, Pages (notes and writing)
Games: Forget.Me.Not, Plants Vs Zombies ipad version is SUPERIOR, corpse craft is fucking fun
How to Cook Everything
Amazon Windowshop, Jetsetter, I like River of News better than Reeder on the Ipad, Newsy, Cloudreaders (I use this for comic book reading - which I do rarely)
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I read that as Asspopper and thought, shoot, I need me an iPod!
they may indeed have an app for that.
That was a great article, DCJ, thanks for passing it along.
Be sure and check under "Genius" in the App Store for iPad upgrades from your iPhone apps.
t, do you mean in iTunes, or on the iPad itself?
Beloved laptop running Firefox 3.6 is a zombie at the moment, and the new laptop has Firefox 4 loaded. I use tabs a lot. A lot. One feature I'm used to is tab history, within the tab. Frex, if somebody on b.org posts a link to a picture in their flickr account and I get lost looking at "this picture also in Other Pretty Stuff", I've been able to drop down the in-that-tab history and click the link I want to go back to, rather than hitting the back button ninety-mumble times.
I haven't been able to find that feature in FF4--does anyone know if it was eliminated completely? Or just well-hidden? And if the latter, can anyone tell me where it's hidden so I can find it and turn it on? Back button gonna be worn out before the rest of the keyboard....
