I got this pointer in my inbox from the Washington Post Electronics and Gadgets Tip of the Week. Considering all the ways to receive news (SMS, RSS, traditional Websites, etc.), this is a good idea for those times when your Internet connection is slow, or you just want a quick blurb.

If you’ve got a slow connection, a site designed for broadband users can feel intolerably slow. You can sit and stew while the graphics and animations at these sites make their way down to your computer — or you can try using a mobile-phone edition of the site, if it’s available, to get the same info without all the associated flash. For example, instead of waiting for Major League Baseball’s multimedia-saturated mlb.com home page to arrive, you can check scores, schedules and statistics much faster at m.mlb.com. (For a quick read of Post stories, visit twp.com.) To find a sites’s mobile edition, try searching for “mobile [name of site]”; often, however, you only need to replace the “www.” at the start of its address with “m.”

– Rob Pegoraro, Consumer Technology Columnist