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Coffee Cup
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
Are there any Kindle experts out there who can help me? I have an old Kindle Keyboard with 3G, I've been trying to send documents to my Kindle via email but it doesn't seem to work. It looks like I need a free Kindle accound - i.e. Sparrow@free.kindle.com - but I can't see anything on the help pages that tells you how to do that!
Hello Sparrow!
I'm not sure this will completely work, but try the following:
*Log onto your amazon account.
*Just right of the search bar, the amazon home page will now say: "Hello, Sparrow
Your Account v"
*Click on the v to get a drop down menu
*Click on "Manage your kindle"
*On the left hand menu, click on "personal document settings"
*The website says that a unique address is assigned to your kindle upon registration. Mine is listed here, under personal document settings, and there is an option to edit the one you have been assigned too.
*Be aware that if you have 3G, you may be charged for recieving 3G documents. To avoid this, you actually have two kindle addresses - e.g. sparrow@kindle.com and sparrow@free.kindle.com. Use the 3G one to ensure your documents are delivered free-of-charge using wifi, or the one without free to get documents to show up now using 3G.
*The other thing you must do is add *your* email address to the approved senders list for your kindle. Click on "Add a new approved e-mail address" towards the bottom of the "personal document settings" page, and add your normal, day-to-day email address(es) here.
*I only send pdfs ( e.g. crochet patterns), but I think other formats should work. Someone else may have more experience.
(apologies for the long-windedness of the instructions)
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Laptop, Compaq nc6400, running Win 7 Pro. All of a sudden the screen has gotten considerably darker. I have all the settings set to as bright as they go, and the Fn key combinations change the setting but little (and only downward).
Time to get a new screen? New inverter? New fluorescent tube? How can I tell which needs to be replaced? Do I need to give up and take it to a $hop, or can I do it myself?
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the giant cheeseburger
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My first guess would be that one of the fluoro backlights failing (there were usually four on a 14.1" laptop), but it would be worth rolling back any updates you installed recently in the unlikely case it's a software thing. If you can boot to some kind of live Linux disc with a graphic interface and it looks fine, then it's probably a hardware issue.
If it is a backlight failure, even if it is serviceable it's quite possible that it will be hard to get the right replacement part now that everything uses LED backlighting instead of fluro tubes. I don't have any experience with pulling apart HP laptops so I don't know how much work (or specialist tools for that matter) would be required, though if it's one of their Compaq branded ones it will hopefully be fairly simple and not too finely engineered.
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Doc Tor
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Now here's a bizarre thing. There is a website I regularly visit, that since yesterday afternoon I have been unable to visit because my browser tells me it can't connect to the server.
Try a different browser. Nope.
Try clearing the cache and the cookies. Nope.
Reset the router. Nope.
Reset the modem. Nope.
Try a different machine on the network. Nope.
Try with the firewall off. Nope.
Try my wife's 3g phone. Bingo.
So I have to conclude that it's something to do with either my local network, or my provider. But what?
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The Machine Elf
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Google 'is it up or down' and you will find a selection of sites which will test whether another site is up or down.
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Doc Tor
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The site is definitely up, as attested to by my wife's phone - which doesn't go through my cable provider.
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Sparrow
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Originally posted by Coffee Cup:
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
Are there any Kindle experts out there who can help me? I have an old Kindle Keyboard with 3G, I've been trying to send documents to my Kindle via email but it doesn't seem to work. It looks like I need a free Kindle accound - i.e. Sparrow@free.kindle.com - but I can't see anything on the help pages that tells you how to do that!
Hello Sparrow!
I'm not sure this will completely work, but try the following:
*Log onto your amazon account.
*Just right of the search bar, the amazon home page will now say: "Hello, Sparrow
Your Account v"
*Click on the v to get a drop down menu
*Click on "Manage your kindle"
*On the left hand menu, click on "personal document settings"
*The website says that a unique address is assigned to your kindle upon registration. Mine is listed here, under personal document settings, and there is an option to edit the one you have been assigned too.
*Be aware that if you have 3G, you may be charged for recieving 3G documents. To avoid this, you actually have two kindle addresses - e.g. sparrow@kindle.com and sparrow@free.kindle.com. Use the 3G one to ensure your documents are delivered free-of-charge using wifi, or the one without free to get documents to show up now using 3G.
*The other thing you must do is add *your* email address to the approved senders list for your kindle. Click on "Add a new approved e-mail address" towards the bottom of the "personal document settings" page, and add your normal, day-to-day email address(es) here.
*I only send pdfs ( e.g. crochet patterns), but I think other formats should work. Someone else may have more experience.
(apologies for the long-windedness of the instructions)
Thanks, I'll give that a try when time permits!
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malik3000
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
LO is also perfect for creating PDFs.
There is Nothing perfect about that vile format. From kicking puppies to mass murder, you will find the moment of snap was caused by creating or printing a PDF.
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Thanks for all the info on LibreOffice. For me the main reason I want it is for the database, not the other things, except as how they might help me to generate certain kinds of reports from the database.
Even though I am not the most knowledgeable about many software programs, I have a moderately good working knowledge of MS Access, having used it for a number of years.
I don't particular want to have to take an equivalent number of years to learn a new one. If Microsoft had Excel and Access for Mac that could be good except for the money aspect but there is no longer Access for Mac at all.
(The reason Excel has helped me is that there is an online database I use (LibraryThing), and I can download it in Excel, and, once downloaded, can convert it to an MS Access format database.)
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
LO is also perfect for creating PDFs.
There is Nothing perfect about that vile format. From kicking puppies to mass murder, you will find the moment of snap was caused by creating or printing a PDF.
It was okay until they broke LO to make it open a 94-page PDF in Draw rather than Writer. Just idiotic. If the Draw types want PDF import capability, they should fork it off LO.
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lilBuddha
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No, my dear pererin. I did not mean only the PDF-LO connection, but PDFs no matter the origin.
Formatting changes, print driver mismatches, even with preview pane showing correct!, extra empty pages printed, etc.
Oh, it will work correctly, at times, luring you in, lulling you to a false sense of productivity. And then, right when it is important, the damn format will betray you. Makes me want to convert to Christianity just to condemn it to Hell.
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Sparrow
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I seem to have a problem with my Norton firewall, a couple of times in the last couple of weeks it has reported that it has been turned off though I haven't changed the settings. I have scanned with Malwarebytes and Norton itself but they don't turn up any viruses. Any advice please?
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Thyme
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Norton firewall and antivirus was the cause of horrendous problems for me many years ago. I was advised to uninstall it and all the problems disappeared like magic. I would never use it again.
I have used AVG without too many problems.
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Sparrow
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A very stupid question this one .... can anyone clarify for me the difference between Microsoft Outlook and Outlook.com? They are different aren't they, but how?
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LeRoc
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Darn! We just had wireless installed last week, through an Arris TG862 modem/router combination.
Yesterday, the energy in our building was switched off for about 7 hours for maintenance. After this, I can't get internet working again (I'm on my 3G now). All the lights on the router seem to be as they should, but my computer says "Limited connection", and I can't access the internet.
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Wesley J
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Do a router reset? Check in the manual how it's done. Often helps.
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LeRoc
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Wesley J: Do a router reset? Check in the manual how it's done. Often helps.
Thank you, I've tried this already a couple of times. I also unplugged and plugged it again several times, restarted my computer... The modem/router doesn't work if I connect it with an Ethernet cable to my computer either. Yet, the lights that indicate that the modem/router is receiving internet signal are on.
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lilBuddha
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For using the router wireless, in your network settings right click in your wireless network name and disconnect. Then reconnect entering the password anew.
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LeRoc
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lilBuddha: For using the router wireless, in your network settings right click in your wireless network name and disconnect. Then reconnect entering the password anew.
Hmm, I'm in Windows 8. I've tried diconnecting and reconnecting in my network settings a number of times, but it didn't work. It never asks me for my password because it already has that stored, I don't know how I can force it to ask again.
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lilBuddha
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If you disconnect and it is not asking for a password on reconnecting, this is a problem. It should ask. Is there an option to "forget" the network?
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LeRoc
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lilBuddha: Is there an option to "forget" the network?
Yes, I found that now. I can remove this network from my list. The next time I connect to it, it asks for my password again. Didn't resolve my problems though. It still says "Limited connection" and doesn't connect to the internet.
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lilBuddha
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It may well be that the power surge killed your router.
Hopefully your router and not your internal network card.
Can you take it back?
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LeRoc
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lilBuddha: It may well be that the power surge killed your router.
Possibly, I hope not. My router was plugged in when the power got disconnected but I unplugged it before the power came back. That's when the big surge is, isn't it?
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lilBuddha
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It truly depends.
The easiest way to test is to bring another device into range of your wireless network and attempt to connect. If that does not work, then take your computer to another wireless access point and attempt to connect.
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LeRoc
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lilBuddha: The easiest way to test is to bring another device into range of your wireless network and attempt to connect.
I agree, I already tried it with another netbook and with a tablet. None of them connected, so it isn't my computer. I'll go to the company where I have the internet subscription tomorrow, but here in Brazil I don't know how long it will take for them to come and repair ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Might the lengthy power outage have depleted an onboard battery/corrupted your volatile RAM in your router?
That is, can you hard reset/restore factory settings on the router, then use the default login to access the wifi?
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LeRoc
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Doc Tor: That is, can you hard reset/restore factory settings on the router, then use the default login to access the wifi?
Probably. It says that it will restore factory settings if I press the reset button for 15 seconds (the one in the little hole that you have to push with a pen). I've been a bit hesitant to do so, because I'm not sure if I can get the settings back the way they are now.
I managed to call the provider's helpline, and after being more than half an hour on the phone, making my choices on the menu, being put through, listening to muzak... they told me that they are doing maintenance in my region, and that internet will be restored tomorrow at noon ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
It's a bit strange that all the lights on my modem are how they should be when there's no internet coming in. Let's see how it goes tomorrow.
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lilBuddha
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All your modem displays is that signal is coming in. It does not differentiate between noise and information.
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The Kat in the Hat
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I've been asked to look over a website that is built using wordpress.
I think they need some forms so that feedback etc can be generated
Does anyone have any recommendations for plug-ins?
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LeRoc
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lilBuddha: All your modem displays is that signal is coming in. It does not differentiate between noise and information.
Ah I see, thank you. The connection has been restored now, not on Monday like they promised but on Tuesday. It still goes down quite often though, it is worse here than I thought.
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Your ISP may have different connection profiles available for you to choose from in your account settings. My previous ISP had five settings ranging from Conservative (lowest speed, highest redundancy and stability) to Thrill Seeker (highest speed, no redundancy, lowest stability) with the Normal setting in the middle. Living a fair distance from the exchange meant we never ventured beyond Normal without major issues.
If your ISP has different connection profiles, maybe during the maintenance work it was reset to a higher-grade profile which is less stable than what you had before.
If your ISP did not tell you before the maintenance work began, you should be able to claim a discount off your next monthly bill according to the number of days with service denied and compensation for any resultant loss of income.
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Originally posted by The Kat in the Hat:
I've been asked to look over a website that is built using wordpress.
I think they need some forms so that feedback etc can be generated
Does anyone have any recommendations for plug-ins?
thanks
http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=forms
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Originally posted by balaam:
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Originally posted by The Kat in the Hat:
I've been asked to look over a website that is built using wordpress.
I think they need some forms so that feedback etc can be generated
Does anyone have any recommendations for plug-ins?
thanks
http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=forms
The version of Wordpress that is being used does not seem to have an "Add form" button. Is it because it is wordpress.org?
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Kat,
Plugins are available for Wordpress websites. But I am not sure the mechanism as I do not use wordpress.
As for .org v. .com, Here is a comparison.
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Comrades! It's probably time I retired my very ancient Acer laptop - it's on its second battery and down to less than an hour of life on a full charge, the (tiny) hard drive has bad sectors, and it just runs stuff at random, locking the computer for five minutes at a time.
From perusing the market, it seems to be a choice between Windows 8 and Android - with Android devices having a much better battery life than Windows. Of course, all my networking software is Windows-based, and OpenOffice has no official port to Android. I've no particular reason to go Android except for the longer battery life.
I don't need it singing and dancing. All I'll be doing with it is accessing t'internet and typing, so it can be reasonably cheap and cheerful, but a full-sized keyboard is a must.
Recommendations? (I'm in the UK, btw)
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You mention Android, so tablets are in the mix?
As for real computers, I love my Asus ROG laptop.
For tablets, I do like my Nexus 7 (made by Asus), though would likely have gone with windows RT had that been a viable option.
If you are talking one device, stay away from tablets if you do real work. They are too limited in my experience.
FYI
Android and windows RT - tablet
Windows 8 - computer
There are "tablet computers", these are different from what are commonly called tablets.
Yes fellow geeks, I am aware tablets are computers, but they are limited.
And I am aware android also runs on full computers, also limited.
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dear beloved geeks-who-speak-a-language-I-cannot-comprehend:
years ago, my ex-husband gave the boys a PS3 (for my sins). We have used a variety of ship-anchor-style televisions for them to plug into. the current one is thankfully small, but still takes up a ton of space in our home - which is a 12'x12' 4-season wall tent. space is a premium.
Now, I have decommissioned the family's last actual desktop computer because we now ALL have laptops. the screen for the old desktop is a nice - and FLAT - LCD screen that I can even mount on a wall, thus saving more space. However, I need an adaptor to make the PS3 plugs talk to the screen plug. (right?)
Now is where I show off my great command of technical language. stand back.
the PS3 has a cord that ends in three separate pluggy thingies, each a separate color. the televisions have holes for those plugs. the computer screen does not. the computer has a hole for a wide thingie with two rows of tiny little sticky-outtie thingies plus two screws on each side. I think this is called a serial port but I wanted to describe it anyway incase I'm dead wrong.
(see what I mean about my mad technical language skills? my engineer in my radio days used to HATE ME)
Now, when I go look on amazon and enter search terms that I hope are close, they show me a couple of different little jobbies that LOOK right, but before I order something I want to make sure I AM right.
so first off, is there more information I need from what I said above (i.e. are there many varieties of these things?) and secondly, anyone just happen to know the answer?
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The PS3 has what I believe is called an RCA. The computer screen will have a socket that's a VGA, S-VGA or DVI or HDMI, depending on its age. You can google each one and compare it to the socket.
RCA
Video connectors
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lilBuddha
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Unless the monitor also has speakers, you will need to sort that out as well.
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the giant cheeseburger
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That is slightly inaccurate Doc Tor.
The PS3 has two forms of AV connection, one is HDMI (which a new computer monitor will probably have) and the other is a proprietary multi-connector. You can see both on this picture but the exact position and arrangement may be different depending on which specific model of the PS3 you have - all should be labelled though.
The multi-connector has different adapter cables available which link to a number of different TV connection systems, some of which do use RCA plugs on the end. The one included in the box as standard is the composite video version which is the lowest common denominator of TV connections, using only one yellow RCA plug for the video signal. Component video also uses a number of coloured RCA plugs but is a very different system that is of much higher quality.
What you'll have on the computer screen is up to three different connection types - VGA (which looks a bit like a pre-USB serial port), DVI and HDMI.
If you have HDMI, you just need a HDMI cable long enough to reach from the PS3 to the screen. Buy the cheapest one you can get, they are all the same and if you buy a more expensive brand all you're getting is the name on the box! The majority of HDMI-equipped computer monitors will either have built-in speakers or a jack to plug in a cord leading to external speakers.
If you don't have HDMI but do have DVI, you should be able to purchase a HDMI-DVI converter (because HDMI uses very similar technology as the DVI standard) which will allow you to connect the HDMI cable from the PS3 to the converter, a DVI cable from the converter to the screen and an audio connection from the converter to a set of speakers.
If you only have a VGA connection on the screen then you have an older first-generation LCD computer screen that will not work with a PS3. There are HDMI to VGA converters out there, but they will not work with a PS3 because they do not have the content encryption system required.
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That is slightly inaccurate Doc Tor.
Fair enough - I don't own a PS3, so was going by what comet said.
Further to what TGC said, this discussion is quite useful.
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Kat,
Plugins are available for Wordpress websites. But I am not sure the mechanism as I do not use wordpress.
As for .org v. .com, Here is a comparison.
Thanks for the link - it makes more sense now.
The company had paid someone to set up a better site for them, but then discovered that his talk was better than the outcome - but I can now see why we are linked to the .org site (more control).
However, I do need to create forms, which will need a plug-in, and there are quite a few to choose from, hence my question to see if anyone here has any experience.
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thank you guys. (I think!) I'll go look at the various holes on the boxes and see what I recognize. the H-something or other is what I'm hoping for in both places, right?
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thank you guys. (I think!) I'll go look at the various holes on the boxes and see what I recognize. the H-something or other is what I'm hoping for in both places, right?
Assuming the PS3 has an HDMI, then you want the screen to have *at least* a DVI socket.
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thank you guys. (I think!) I'll go look at the various holes on the boxes and see what I recognize. the H-something or other is what I'm hoping for in both places, right?
Assuming the PS3 has an HDMI, then you want the screen to have *at least* a DVI socket.
All models of the PS3 were built with HDMI sockets.
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If you don't have HDMI but do have DVI, you should be able to purchase a HDMI-DVI converter (because HDMI uses very similar technology as the DVI standard) which will allow you to connect the HDMI cable from the PS3 to the converter, a DVI cable from the converter to the screen and an audio connection from the converter to a set of speakers.
okay, it looks like the above is my option. whew! thanks, TGC.you get a gold star. now to see if I can find it!
so far I'm seeing a wide price range. any reason why cheap isn't okay?
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thank you guys. (I think!) I'll go look at the various holes on the boxes and see what I recognize. the H-something or other is what I'm hoping for in both places, right?
Assuming the PS3 has an HDMI, then you want the screen to have *at least* a DVI socket.
All models of the PS3 were built with HDMI sockets.
yes, the PS3 has the HDMI, and the monitor has the DVI, but not the HDMI. however, the cheap cables don't transmit sound, and I see no place on either to just plug in my speakers. (can't it just be easy?!?) do I have to buy one of the $60+ fancy converters to get the sound? and say... (says the annoyed mama) say I don't get the sound part, and they get silent games. will the thing still work even without sound?
and mega thanks for all this. this is far from my skill set, as you can see.
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A question about printing pdfs from Adobe Reader XI to a number of Canon Pixma inkjet printers.
I've found that occasionally printed text in pdf documents can become garbled, i.e. showing a wild assortment of letters instead of the correct words. This can happen once, or several times, when doing several copies of the same document, and with all or only part of the page garbled, or everything on it ok. It can also occur with all of the connected printers, not just one.
It might be that certain types of pdf are especially prone to this, like pdf forms filled in by me, or forms auomatically created online by some website, and then printed by me. So it is perhaps a matter of that transformation process which confuses my printers.
Scanned document pdfs pose no problem.
Any thoughts? Thank you. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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thank you guys. (I think!) I'll go look at the various holes on the boxes and see what I recognize. the H-something or other is what I'm hoping for in both places, right?
Assuming the PS3 has an HDMI, then you want the screen to have *at least* a DVI socket.
All models of the PS3 were built with HDMI sockets.
yes, the PS3 has the HDMI, and the monitor has the DVI, but not the HDMI. however, the cheap cables don't transmit sound, and I see no place on either to just plug in my speakers. (can't it just be easy?!?) do I have to buy one of the $60+ fancy converters to get the sound? and say... (says the annoyed mama) say I don't get the sound part, and they get silent games. will the thing still work even without sound?
and mega thanks for all this. this is far from my skill set, as you can see.
Yes, to get sound you will need to use a converter box to split the video and audio - this is because the DVI carries video only. This is nothing to do with the price of the cable.
Just checking, have you tried it with a simple HDMI-DVI plug converter yet and managed to get the images on the screen?
The solution to this doubt about whether the converter box will work is something that actually is your specialty - good old fashioned customer service! Buy a converter box from a proper store staffed by real human beings who will notice when you refuse to treat them like they are convicts doing community service - and before buying make sure you check that you can return it with all the packaging carefully kept intact should it not work as intended. You'll probably pay a bit more than if you bought the identical product over the internet, but it would be worth it if it doesn't work.
If a converter fails to get your sound working, then it looks like silent games will be the best you can hope for. Just embellish the truth and tell the kids that even the movies were like that back when you were young, and to be thankful they at least have colour ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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