Maximizing Your PSP

There are a lot of things you can do on your $169 PSP. Here are what I use my PSP for:

• GAMING:
  
• Universal Media Disks (UMDs) * UMD ISOs * Gameboy Advance * SNES * PSX *
  
• REGULAR MULTI MEDIA:
• PICTURE VIEWER:
• JPEG * BMP
  
• MP3 PLAYBACK:
• Music * PodCasts * Audio Books * Text To Speech Generated
• VIDEO VIEWER
• MP4 * UMD Video * FLV (via homebrew) * DIVX (via homebrew)
  
• TV Out Options (cable sold separately)
  
• 1.3 MP DIGITAL CAMERA (sold separately)
• Still Pictures
• Digital Video Recorder
• LOCATION FREE PLAYER (sold separately)
• ONLINE USES:
• INTERNET RADIO (wifi)
• WEB BROWSER (can view local HTMLs too :) )
• SKYPE (Microphone/Headset Required)
  
• GO!MESSENGER (PSP Camer Required)
  
• RSS Thingy I never bothered with
  
• PLUGINS:
• Display PSP Screen to Windows PC (RemoteJoy)
• Capture Screenshots
• HOMEBREW APPLICATIONS
• IR Shell
• Bookr (PDF Reader)
  
• PSP Comics (CBR/CBZ Reader)
• PSP Tube (FLV/DivX Player)
• Chess Clock
• Running Your Own Code (Linux + C) ***

More productive utilization of the PSP Includes:

• Using Video Out to connect to an LCD Projector and give a presentation
• via local HTML
• via power point slides saved as images
• Using the web browser to access "Reference Materials"
• Back Up your Original UMDs
  

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Testing for a backlink... Uhm, yes, yes, very interesting article.

http://knightrn.blogspot.com/2008/12/meeting-donna-cruz.html

Sending to Chikka from Gmail/Pidgin

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. download (link), install Pidgin Portable
2. add your existing "google talk/gmail" to accounts (ctrl+a on pidgin)
3. add your target cellphone in this format
639191231234@chikkatalk.com
note: the above account is already dead. (for those with funny ideas)

NOTE: that if your friend replies, he/she will be charged Php 2.50

taken from: sysad linux blog

TinyXML - A C++ Library

Just want to post this here so I don't forget... It's an XML Library for C++. I hope that I can find a way to program a QUIZ application with an XML BackEnd. It will help me prepare for my future License Exam if I can get it to run.

Well, here is to the future!

How To: Rip UMDs (via USB Connection)

Option 1: via USB Connection

• 1. Configure "USB Connection"
  
• ---> Open VSH Menu - (press SELECT key) (or HOME on earlier CFW)
• ---> Set "USB Device" to "UMD Disc"
• ---> Exit VSH Menu - (press SELECT again) (or HOME)

screenshot showing USB Device set to UMD Disc

• 2. Enable "USB Connection"
• Connect PSP to PC via USB
  
• On XMB
• ---> Settings
• ---> USB Connection
• 3. Copy Image to PC
  
• Using Windows Explorer, simply copy the ISO file to your PC.

screenshot showing Windows Explorer accessing UMD Disc

• 4. DONE but here are some more stuff you can do
  
• - you can rename "UMD9660.ISO" to something more descriptive (i.e. MHF2.iso)
  
• - you can also compress your ISO to CSO (request how)
  
• - you can also remove "Update Files" from UMD Image (request how)

Other Options includes the use of PSP Filer or some other homebrew to dump your UMD directly to your Memory Stick (request how)

How To: Take screenshots on your PSP

from: stylemo.com

I know a lot of you PSP fanboys out there are still wondering how I manage to get those cool screenshots from my PSP. well you can stop wondering now because after this post, you too will be capturing screenshots from your PSP just by pressing the NOTE button. Sounds simple right?

Requirements:

1. A Fat or Slim PSP installed with 3.71 M33 or higher custom firmware. This means it will also work with 3.80 M33 custom firmwares.
2. A USB Cable to enable connection between your computer and your PSP.

Instructions:

1. Download the screencapture pack I’ve prepared to anywhere on your computer.
2. Unzip the file you’ve downloaded.
3. Connect your PSP to your PC using a USB Cable. Check if you have already the seplugins folder on the root of your memory stick. If you don’t have it yet then proceed to step 4. If you do already have it then proceed to step 5.
4. Do this only if you don’t have the seplugins folder yet. Copy the seplugins folder from your computer to the root of your memory stick.
5. If you did step 4 then skip this step. You only have to follow this step if you already have an existing seplugins folder. Copy screenshotbmp.prx from the seplugins on your computer to the seplugins folder on the root of your memory stick. Now go to the seplugins on your memory stick. If you have vsh.txt already present, you have to open the file and edit it. Open it in Notepad or any text editor and add these code in a new line: ms0:/seplugins/screenshotbmp.prx
   Check if you also have pops.txt and game.txt present on your seplugins folder in your memory stick. If you have it then do the same routine, edit it and paste that line of code in a new line. Otherwise you can just grab the game.txt and pops.txt from the file you’ve downloaded.
6. Disconnect your PSP from your computer. Now open the recovery menu. How? Turn off your PSP then turn it on again while pressing the R button. On your recovery menu, go to Plugins and enable all the screenshotbmp.prx plugins. Exit the recovery menu.
7. Try it on your XMB. Press the note button. You will know the screenshot plugin is working when an inverse color of your screen will sweep from the bottom to the top. The screenshot will be saved on your PICTURES folder on your memory stick and you can also view it by going to Photo > memory stick on your PSP.

If you have any questions or reactions about this guide, you can use the comment form below. The screenshot plugin was programmed by TyRaNID and ported by Weltall to the M33 custom firmwares.