Re: Looking for a monitor to connect to my mac mini

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Dunno about finding the box locally. Might try the usual suspects like Radio Shack or Best Buy. Best buy has one for $64 here: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/StarTech.com+-+VGA-to-TV+Video+Converter/Scaler/9682896.p?id=1218265849967&skuId=9682896&st=ntsc%20vga&cp=1&lp=1 Radio Shack as one for $85

Re: Looking for a monitor to connect to my mac mini

2011-11-30 Thread matthew Dyer
Thanks. I only asked about t bird because yyou were using the mac version to responde to my message. as for this box device you were refering to, can you get this localy. If any how I could get this work it would be nice for now. Matthew On Nov 29, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > S

Re: Looking for a monitor to connect to my mac mini

2011-11-29 Thread Chris Blouch
So you'll need two adapters. One is the HDMI or DVI to VGA and the second is the VGA to NTSC box to trick your Mac into thinking there is a monitor hooked up. Nope. Not accessible at all. This is the same problem with Firefox. The Mozilla folks support the open Iaccessible2 API which is not im

Re: Looking for a monitor to connect to my mac mini

2011-11-29 Thread matthew Dyer
Chris, I have an addapter which I have connected before. I have several people looking for me, but will look around and see if one of the local thrift store againd see what I can come up witth. Now to change the subjet if I may. I notest you are using thunderbird on your mac and wonder if

Re: Looking for a monitor to connect to my mac mini

2011-11-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Lots of times thrift stores will have old ones that work well enough. They don't even need to turn on really because the sense pins are just resistors connecting certain ones together. They used to sell "vga terminators" but every site I found either discontinued them or they were permanently o

Re: Looking for a monitor to connect to my mac mini

2011-11-27 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
May I possibly suggest freecycle, if your country and region has such a site, I would recommend it. after all, you can pick up monitors in working order for free if it would help you. lew Free Macs For The Blind On 27 Nov 2011, at 15:49, matthew Dyer wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone know whare I

Looking for a monitor to connect to my mac mini

2011-11-27 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi all, Anyone know whare I can get a cheep monitor to connect to my mac mini. I have a 2009 mottle. I already have a vga addaptor, but have not been able to find a monitor cheep enough. I don't mind paing around $30 for one if I have to, but that is the moste I am wailling to pay. Thank