Hey, I was wondering, I have just recently bought a Mac, and I was wondering if I could somehow hook it up my PS3 to it so I can play my games on the screen. It has a Mini-DVI output on the side of the laptop, but are there any ways or somehow I could do this? I ask because I'm soon going back to University and won't have my HDTV, so I remember hearing people doing this before.
Thanks for any information!
-Anthony

Is this a hack/spam? Register today post today? I fear hitting those link bold phrases in the altered quote. How was that possible?
edit: Location = yes?
edit2: The referred to posting is no longer there. THX ozzz

It is a scam, and Bobette will soon leave, never to return.

If i needed help with a computer problem, I would not look for a solution in a trivia site. I am not saying that people here couldn't help ( I have an IT degree and fix computers), but there are more likely and pertinent sites to seek help.

I can't help with the original question but there's somebody here on Yahoo Answers who can.

Telly, I hope you did not take my comment to mean that there wasn't anyone who could help. I am sure there are folks here who can help out. My point was that when I do run across something to which I don't know the answer, I use a search engine to find information. I have yet to be directed to a trivia site for help.

I see there was some maybe some links in the post? So y'alls idea that something was wrong makes sense to me.

I think only someone who has matched up those two items would be able to give expansive help. That's not me of course and perhaps nobody else here? However, some minimal help could be given by finding a web page that contained the necessary information. I suppose I could then have tried to appear all knowledgeable by saying, "Get a TV tuner and..." but decided the fellow at Yahoo Answers should get the kudos instead.

Don't want to put people off posting here about computers and the problems they get, so maybe a little help is still good when you can't give a lot.

I usually can fix most any problems I have. I have found it hard to help folks when you can't actually see what is going on. The communication is a problem because they may not know what I am looking for or fail to see what I have them looking for.

I have fixed numerous computers out of state using a program that allows them to let me into their system from here. I never mind trying to help folks out.

As long as you did not take what I said as aimed at you, we good. Sometimes when I look back at things I have typed, I see where I could be taken in a manner which I did not intend.

There are a lot of people using sites like this who are, to put it bluntly, not very computer literate. They may indeed use Google but can be confused by the many answers found, some of which may be contradictory and most of which will be written in techie-speak by computer experts who know nothing about people, and care less about people who don't know as much as them.

But regular users of FT know that if they, for example, post a question here or a question about cameras in the Photography section, then they may get help from someone who's not interested in bamboozling them, who will write in words they understand, and who will if necessary say they don't know. FT has a lot of members, some of whom are experts in their professional fields or have become expert in a hobby they're passionate about. So if people ask for help there's no reason why other FT members shouldn't give them the benefit of their expertise or experience, and at least the questioner knows they have no axe to grind and aren't trying to sell them something.

That is always a problem and one that I've mentioned myself once or twice. It's often worth a try though.


I know what you mean. Forums don't have eye contact or body language to go with the words but being offended never occurred to me. Hmm.. but now that I come to think of it (just joking). Here, have a couple of smilies.

There's a web site just for this. It's called "Let me Google that for you."

That spam attack seemed a little more sophisticated than ones in the past. It seems to have actually searched out (or had copied a list of) defunct user names to use to open a Forum account. OR, as blank as that bobette profile is, could someone have set up ghost accounts throughout the site to resurrect one day? That's a long time to sit on a hack. How difficult would it be to excise all accounts which show no points, no location, no hobbies, no comments, no team affiliation and no activity in over, say, four years?

Flopsy.. I hope you did not get the impression that I was saying people here are not capable of helping. My point was that if you don't know people here, why would you show up with a computer problem in a trivia site. As mehaul noticed the account shows a membership of over a year if I remember right. Amazes me still that people go through so much trouble to hack for no gain. Could be trying to create zombie computers.

Because some of the people who ask know, if only as FT players, the people they're asking, many of whom have been members for years and this is a site where on the whole people are friendly and don't mind being asked - whereas some other sites make the questioner feel overawed at best or at worst stupid. In general the people who post here aren't complete FT newbies - most of that group don't find the forums anyway - and so are familiar with the reputation of the contributors. And as regular members the contributors know better than to be condescending which some IT experts are.

As for the removed questioner, whose post I missed, it could well have been a spammer or just a general idiot. They might have been exploring a hack of via the forum software which is the only proprietary bit of the site and each new version of which comes with its own security issues. And in my long experience of the internet, some people are just that idiotic and have nothing better to do.

The posting was a quote copy of the initial stand alone posting from several years ago. The hacker inserted a couple of changes into the quote which stood out in bold lettering. Then followed the quote with a sympathy educing (Approx) "I am in the same boat, some help please?" So to see that problem, you'd have to link to his advert sites for xboxes and Dyson fans.

I could see the second post was spam but didn't notice the original post had been resurrected from 2008, so I just took it at face value and answered the question in my usual 'trying to be helpful' manner, then went on from there. The whole thread has been a bit pointless I suppose.