GAMES, MOVIES , AND FREE STUFF FOR YOUR PSP

If you're interested in downloading PSP games or movies then this may be the most important blog you read today. Here's why: I was frustrated at the expensive prices of new PSP games so I searched on the internet to see if there was a way to download the same games and movies for a low price. I found some websites which are actually good. I have listed these sites on this blog. Clearly there’s more PSP trick out there.. I’d love it if you could add your ideas or comments.

Written by T

Saturday, 26 March 2005

Courtesy of GameFries Two days after the launch and I'm already looking around to try and squeeze extra functionality on my PSP. Well, I got to thinking, the high contrast screen would be great for e-books. Why not? Might as well start hacking this glorious new piece of electronics ASAP. So for today's lesson, we'll be using Davinci's Notebook, provided by the wonderful folks over at Project Gutenberg. And here are some steps, you know, for people that like that sort of thing:

Click here to download PaperlessPrinter. It's completely free for non-commercial use. If you want to check out the company, hit up this link. The software does nag you once in awhile to register, but there's definitely no spyware.
Install it. This adds a new printer called "PaperlessPrinter." This is what you want to use. Ch...ch...check it out:
Open the file that ebook you downloaded. Go file->print then click preferences after you have the PaperlessPrinter selected.
Make your shit look like this:
Now hit OK, and click Print. You'll see a dialog pop up asking you which file type you want. Hit jpeg, of course:
Click OK on that shit and you'll be brought to the meat of the program. Hit the quality tab to adjust the quality. This adds a bit of blur around the letters, but otherwise is unnoticable. I recommend laying it down around 30, and set the jpeg to greyscale just to keep things clean. I strongly recommend making a seperate folder, as this saves each page as a seperate jpeg.
Click OK and it'll start hacking away at the files. For a 478 page book, it only took about 4 minutes on my measly 1.2ghz Athlon. This is what you should see:
Awww yeah. After it crunches away, you'll be left with a whackload of jpegs to plop on your PSP. Here is a picture of the device viewing the book we just made:

On the editorial side, I apologize for being so picture-heavy, and also a little bit picture stupid. I enjoy visual aids, and am terrrrible with photoshop. In any case, there are a few notes to add to this method:

The virtual printer you installed can be used for *ANY* document. This includes websites, text files, word files, essentially anything that can be printed.
The text is small, but relatively high contrast. I can read it fine, but my vision is also good. Anybody with bad vision may not have much success with this method.
The files generated are HUGE without any encryption. DaVinci's notebook rang in at an astounding 150 mb. Lowering the quality will lower the file size significantly.
Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions at all for improving this method. I'll get right on it. It's a remedial sledgehammering way to get e-books on the PSP, and I'm sure there's a better method.