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PSP Browser Tips 92

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the bite-sized-slashdot dept.
ZOverLord writes "Onlytherightanswers.com has a great guide on how to use all the possible features available in the PSP Browser and shows how to save and copy files, transfer files without a USB cable, and limit Out Of Memory errors."
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  • Bloat (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:16PM (#13431251)
    Seriously, why would Paint Shop Pro need a friggin' web browser feature?

  • dead??? (Score:1, Informative)

    by spect3r ( 909619 )
    onlytherightanswers.com link dead

  • That was probably (Score:5, Funny)

    by MC68040 ( 462186 ) <henric@digitalLI ... m minus language> on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:20PM (#13431272) Homepage
    the quickest case of the slashdot effect I've seen, did the server just run and hide or?
  • Is one of their hints: "Don't use the psp browser." ?

    • Re:Don't use it? (Score:4, Interesting)

      by TheBrakShow ( 858570 ) on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:34PM (#13431365)
      Sorry, I wasn't meaning that as a troll. I was just joking.
      But seriously, what are people actually using the psp browser for? I find that whenever I'm somewhere that has a wireless access point I am near a pc or laptop anyway. I doubt anybody who has used the psp browser would use it over something with a keyboard. I still love my psp but I don't know that I'll be using the browser feature that much unless I'm somewhere with no computers that also happens to have wifi access.

      • Re:Don't use it? (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Ravadill ( 589248 )
        It's a nice bonus for those of us who don't own a laptop (or carry one around all day.) There's a whole range of free wifi points around the city here, and while I won't say it's an amazingly useful feature, but it's a nice bonus to be able to check webmail ect. while waiting for the bus/train/sitting in a cafe.
      • I am currently trialing it with a few bar owners who purchaced IP video systems from us. the owner can keep tabs on the properties he isnt physicly at.

        no keyboard needed. just bookmarks. and the owners can even "right click->save as" the images too. neat-o

        for $200 used the PSP is one of the finest portable browsers ive ever seen.
      • But seriously, what are people actually using the psp browser for? I find that whenever I'm somewhere that has a wireless access point I am near a pc or laptop anyway. I doubt anybody who has used the psp browser would use it over something with a keyboard. I still love my psp but I don't know that I'll be using the browser feature that much unless I'm somewhere with no computers that also happens to have wifi access.

        It's great if you are meeting someone who is running late, or you are on the bus in a c

      • The PSP browser makes those extended bathroom brakes much more educational.
        • How fast have you gone in your bathroom? I'm afraid to get mine up over 30... with the toilet sitting that low to the ground it seems pretty fast, and I'm not sure if I trust MY bathroom brakes.

  • I HAVE A TIP... (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:24PM (#13431298)
    Don't upgrade to 2.0 and lose your ability to play homebrew/backups!

    • Re:I HAVE A TIP... (Score:5, Informative)

      by TommyBear ( 317561 ) <tommybear2@gmail.com> on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:42PM (#13431416) Homepage
      As one of the authors of ScummVM-PSP, I can tell you this much; I'm totally annoyed by Sony's insistance to try and shut down homebrew stuff on the PSP by introducing *fixes* in their firmware updates.

      I would love to install the browser, but sorry Sony, I'd like to keep developing HB stuff for the community :( (note that my stuff is developed using the "legal" open source SDK)

      • Comnpanies will continue to make products with restrictions and implement policies/tactics like this because they still sell.

        If nobody bought PSPs because they don't let you run himebrew code or nobody bought DRM'd music the companies would be forced to change their policies.

        The desire to avoid an endless cat & mouse game with Sony to run whatever software I want on the hardware I bought, along with their use of the effectvly poprietary and therefore outrageously espnesive Memory Stick are the main

      • As one of the authors of ScummVM-PSP

        As one of the users of ScummVM-PSP, I love you man *hugs* Portable Sam and Max, *tears up*

  • The REAL psp browser tips: (Score:3, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:25PM (#13431306)
    1. Just buy a PDA. It's what you really want, it doesn't cost much more, and things like web browsers and emulators work great on it without requiring elaborate tricks and maneuvers to keep your firmware in a perpetually hacked state.
    • How is this a troll? The PSP is cumbersome for what some people are trying to do. If your time is worth more than 1$/h, buy a PDA and save.

    • Actually, what I really want is to be able to play modern top-notch portable games like Hot Shots Golf and Wipeout Pure and do various kinds of portable computing without having to carry two devices.

      The PSP is great at the games, and offers some of the computing. If Sony didn't keep thwarting the homebrew apps, it would probably be the best solution.

      Most PDAs, on the other hand, don't support modern games, and my appetite for emulated older games, while real, is not that big.

    • Amen Brotha. The PSP is a kludge of barely useful features and a piss-poor library of games. My trusty PDA can play any emulated games, ebooks, browse the web, etc. with no mods and no effort. The PSP is a square peg being continually shoved into a round hole unsuccessfully. Please let it die with the Ngage, neither is going to go anywhere anytime soon.

      I'm all for convergence, but not when it comes at the price of sanity. The whole because you can thing was cool when it was a hack, but now that it is releas
    • it doesn't cost much more

      Yes it does. Cause Id still need to buy a PSP. Now isntead of a PSP, its a PSP and a PDA.

  • Mirrordot (Score:5, Informative)

    by NotWorkSafe ( 891638 ) <notworksafe12.gmail@com> on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:35PM (#13431373) Homepage
    Mirrordot has it up.
    http://mirrordot.org/stories/dafd4186af6825479246e 940f33fe315/index.html [mirrordot.org]

  • Unfortunately (Score:4, Funny)

    by aicrules ( 819392 ) on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:42PM (#13431412)
    the site is hosted on a PSP which, while great at portable gaming performance, just doesn't stand up to enterprise server requirements.

  • Article text (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29, 2005 @06:46PM (#13431432)
    Secrets Of The PSP Web Browser

    There may be many questions, and please just post comments if you want some good answers.

    None of the Examples below will apply to trying this on a PC, they apply to the PSP browser.

    First, we need to use this in our examples, so lets get that out of the way.

    On your PSP enter the following web site:

    http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/pspkey2.htm [onlytherightanswers.com]

    Now wait for this to load and when finished continue.

    Many people do not understand how the PSP browser windows function, in fact, many people constantly re-load pages that are already in the browser memory, we will show you how to see if a page is in browser memory or not and many other things in this thread.

    Using the Virtual keyboard type the word "browser" without the quotes and then click on the Google button.

    This may or may not prompt you asking if you wish to open a new page, you will get prompted ONLY if you have other pages already taking up all your browsers tabs ("windows") you then would have a choice of using one of the currently open brower tabs ("windows") to open your new page.

    If you had a unused browser tab ("window") you would not be prompted and the page would simply open.

    If prompted pick one of your currently open tabs ("windows")

    Now, you will notice that the Google search page is being currently displayed, and that the Virtual Keyboard and Browser seems gone at the moment.

    This is Not true, Simply hold down your SQUARE key and use your left or right clear plastic key while still holding down your SQUARE key. You will see the Virtual Keyboard and Browser, if you do it again, you will see the Google page.

    What's Happening?

    Holding down the SQUARE key and using the clear plastic Keys allows you to Change tabs ("windows") so that you can have multiple windows open at the same time.

    Now lets try something else. Again, Holding down the SQUARE key and using one of your clear plastic keys on the top of the PSP display the Virtual Keyboard and Browser.

    On the Virtual Keyboard and Browser keyboard, click the clear button, the text that was there the word "browser" should be gone now.

    Enter using the Virtual Keyboard and Browser http://msn.com/ [msn.com] without the quotes ("Note: There are quick buttons that will type the http:/// [http] and the .com on the Virtual Keyboard and Browser so that you do not need to type this all.

    Click the GO! button. You may or may not be prompted to open a new page, if you are and are given a list do NOT replace the Virtual Keyboard and Browser or the Google tab ("window") choose any other.

    Now you will see MSN.com, But, both the Google Search and the Virtual Keyboard and Browser tabs are still there.

    How do I get back to then?

    Simple, do the same thing, hold down the SQUARE key and then use one of the clear plastic keys to get back to the Google search page or the Virtual Keyboard and browser page.

    How do I REMOVE a tab ("window") from my browser memory?

    OK, Use the SQUARE key and one of the clear plastic keys to get to the Google search page.

    Once the Google search page is displayed click your TRIANGLE button, this will invoke the PSP Browser Toolbars. Using The TRIANGLE button again will close the PSP browser toolbars.

    The Toolbar on top displays the web site address and the title of that web page.

    The Toolbar on the bottom allows you to do many things, we will explore them all.

    Once you have clicked your TRIANGLE key and have the PSP Browser toolbars displaying with the Google search page displaying as well, use your left arrow to go all the way to the left you will see the word "File" displayed.

    Now, click on the File Icon, and you will see a menu, choose "Close Page", you will see that the top PSP Browser toolbar is now empty and that the page is BLANK.

  • They are called tabs just tabs damnit! (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    WTF?!? For some reason the author feels the need to note "("windows")" every time he/she mentions Browser Tabs...
    • Most of the PSP user base are completely computer illiterate , therefore, the author of the document is making it painfully easy for them to understand.

      Actually, it's an interesting phenomenon, but it seems that computers have become so easy to use that most kids these days are not power users. Used to be back in the day you had to be a hacker to use a computer, not so. It will be interesting as these people enter the workforce... ... but i digress.

      Nojan
      • If they can use a Word Processor, chances are they'll do fine.
         
        Honestly, what more do you need to know to run a computer? Someone working at Target *grin* isn't going to have to be able to argue whether Internet Explorer's CSS2 rendering is bad or not.

  • video issues (Score:5, Interesting)

    by frankmu ( 68782 ) on Monday August 29, 2005 @08:03PM (#13431864) Homepage
    has anyone have any playback issues with the new update? i have no problems with video downloaded from Sony. i do have issues with the videos using ffmpeg. here's the setting i used: ffmpeg -i sourcemovie.avi -f psp -r 14.985 -s 320x240 -b 768 -ar 24000 -ab 32 M4V00002.MP4 (from pspnuts.com)

    • Re:video issues (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      you forgot these two options:
      -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec acc
      (use mpeg4 for video codec and acc for audio codec) (maybe try also adding -bitexact option)
  • dont know if it was here already... israeli guy MATAN GILLON ported BOCHS to the PSP and succesfully installed windows 95 on it. read his page about it: http://windows95-on-sony-psp.dr.ag/ [windows95-...-psp.dr.ag] anyway it takes 10 minutes to boot if you really need your minesweeper-fix on the go.
  • For some reason my PSP just hates WPA security. It will "test connection" over and over in some wierd cyclical loop.

    If i turn off WPA on my router and PSP... and go wide open balls to the neighborhood, the PSP connects just fine.

  • Useless (Score:3, Informative)

    by swtaarrs ( 640506 ) * <swtaarrs@comcast. n e t> on Monday August 29, 2005 @10:49PM (#13432699)
    This article is just a reworded copy of the built-in help for the browser. All of the 'tips' in the article are available within the browser itself.
  • For the Moment we are upgrading out server due to the load from here, so PLEASE go here: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/ message?board.id=pspnet&message.id=56036 [playstation.com]

  • (smile you are on candid camera)

    • PSP Updates (Score:3, Interesting)

      by ekibohc ( 911212 )
      I don't know how many of you have heard this already, maybe it was posted on this site(i'm new). But there are rumors that the firmware 1.5 (my current, i love the homebrew :P) was intentionally 'bugged' to attract the homebrew section of gamers. And was easily 'fixed' once they had reeled them in. Even if it was an accident, i still think they should allow homebrew. Either way, i think that its unfair and it's one of the reasons i chose the PSP over the DS (maybe their plan worked?) But the point is,
  • It was made to browse the 2ch BBS but its been edited and used to browse normal websites, its still a bit of a WIP as far as a fully featured Web Browser but anythings better than nothing, PSP Emulation News has it for download : http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/2chwebbrowser.shtml [dcemu.co.uk]
  • ONLINE PSP Portal: http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/winportal.h tml [onlytherightanswers.com] And the Virtual Keyboards and Browsers: http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/modules.php ?name=News&file=article&sid=27 [onlytherightanswers.com] Thanks Sorry, we got SWAMPED by the initial Hits from Slashdot, so you can now get to the Original link as well: http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/modules.php ?name=News&file=article&sid=29 [onlytherightanswers.com]

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