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My first interview

So, today during my lunch hour, I gave my first interview regarding PSP Hacks. Pretty cool. Should be appearing in December / January. More details to follow…

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Dinner with Brian

Kristin and I went into the city to have dinner with my editor for PSP Hacks, Brian Jepson, who has a blog over here. It was good to finally meet Brian face to face and a good dinner.
The most mind-blowing bit of the night was that we stopped by St. Mark’s Games before dinner (I [...]

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My first death threat…

Whoa. Somebody is freaking out.
UPDATE: The guy recants the threat later. Still…

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My How-to on Attack of the Show

I posted about this over at TV Squad, but I just wanted to note here that the how-to on downgrading your PSP from 2.0 to 1.5 firmware was mentioned on G4’s Attack of the Show last night! Cool!

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PSP Hacks: The Book » HOW-TO: PSP 2.0 to 1.5 downgrade

PSP Hacks: The Book » HOW-TO: PSP 2.0 to 1.5 downgrade: “My downgrade step by step is up at hackaday now.”

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Fact Check

So, I started reading this article, because I thought it would have something new and interesting to say about the PSP. It doesn’t. Even worse, it has a glaring error: “The gaming device already offers online game play and Bluetooth wireless multiplayer.” Bluetooth?! *buzz* Wrong answer.

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PSP Hacks: The Book

I just put the first real entry up at the blog I’ve created to go along with my book: PSP Hacks: The Book: “I thought I’d make it officially official by actually launching the website that will correspond to the book: PSP Hacks: The Book.” I’ll try to funnel most of my PSP specific content [...]

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Translator for the PSP

This is cool.

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PSP Hacks listed on Amazon dot com

PSP Hacks is already listed on Amazon. Cool, except they don’t have my name correct in the listing. It’s C.K., not C..

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Would it be obscene…

…if I bought a third PSP? I mean, as the author of PSP Hacks, I kind of have to buy the white one, yes?

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PSP Hacks, First Edition

PSP Hacks, First Edition is finally revealed. It’s what I’ve been working on quite a bit this summer. The description is a little out of date right now, as we’ve changed a lot since version 2.0 of the firmware came out. We’re also not sure if we’re sold on the tag line yet: “Tips & [...]

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Gorillaz Feel Good Inc. Video for PSP

Check it out.

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PSP to TV?

This sounds interesting, although I’m not sure how it would work.

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“Universal” PSP firmware unloader on verge of release

This is good news:

Maxconsole.net has put up two videos of a PSP firmware unloader that will work for all PSP firmware versions. This will be welcome boost for any of you homebrew fans that have been holding out on upgrading your firmware to the v2.0 spec. Once this utility is released you’ll be able to [...]

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Free PSP Wallpapers

Cool collection of Free PSP Wallpapers that Dave Caolo from TUAW pointed out to me.

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Using 2.0 Bookmarks For Text Editing on the PSP

This is an interesting little trick Using 2.0 Bookmarks For Text Editing on the PSP, but it still needs a keyboard and while this is good for jotting down notes when you’re not around a WiFi network, what’s the benefit of doing this over simply logging into your blog and posting draft messages to yourself [...]

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Tape this to the back of my bag…

…and harness the power of the sun!

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How to serve your iTunes library to your Sony PSP using WiFi internet

How to serve your iTunes library to your Sony PSP using WiFi internet is a nice little how-to for OS X users:

Dot Tunes looks at your iTunes library and generates a simple web page based on Album or Artist listings that can be accessed across the internet. Once you have generated the web page, it’s [...]

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v.2.0 Firmware for North America Released (Finally!)

Get it here, but only if you don’t use the homebrew. No homebrew works on v2.0 except for Java apps that run sluggishly through the Browser.
UPDATE: Well, it won’t let me try to install it over the Japanese v.2.0 that I installed before, saying that I already have version 2.0 installed. Oh, and just as [...]

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Resources for Developing for the PSP

If you are looking to develop for the PSP, but you don’t have the seed capital to buy in to Sony’s development system, here’s a few places to get started with homebrew coding: Lua Player and the PSP development tutorials 1, 2, and 3.
UPDATE: PSPide C++ Beta Version is another one.

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