Product Description
The popular Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) is the most advanced handheld video game system on the market today -- capable of doing much more than most owners realize. This book is required reading for those of you who want to "tinker under the hood" and discover the full capabilities and hidden features and functions of PSP. You will be able to easily convert and customize your gaming device into a versatile digital companion that allows you to:
- View movies and pictures
- Listen to music
- Browse the web
- Increase memory
- Customize your favorite games
- Upgrade PSP hardware and software
- Integrate the iPod into the PSP world
- Use any memory stick with the PSP
- Listen to MP3s and watch movie videos from the PSP
The companion website will contain sample PSPcasts and movies as well as the entire book in special PSP-compatible format so that it can be viewed from the deviceDave Prochnow is an award-winning professional writer, editor, and contributor to numerous technical publications, including MacAddict, Link-Up, and digitalFOTO. He is the author of 25 nonfiction books for Addison-Wesley, F&W Publications, McGraw-Hill, and TAB Books, including the bestselling The Official Robosapien Hacker's Guide and Experiments with EPROMs. In 2001, Dave won the Maggie Award for writing the best how-to article in a consumer magazine.
From the Back Cover
Packed with the mother lode of geek tweaks, tricks, and upgrades, award-winning how-to writer Dave Prochow's PSP(tm) Hacks, Mods, and Expansions gives you everything you need to morph your Sony PlayStation(r) Portable into the hottest handheld on the planet. This one-of-a-kind sourcebook makes modifying PSP(tm) pie-easy. You can't find more PSP fun, finesse, and future-features anywhere! To make the whole trip more gratifying, Dave smoothes the way for those who merely aspire to geekdom. Within this book’s covers, you'll find complete, goof-proof, illustrated, insider's guidance:
- Transform a cool toy into a digital device extraordinaire!
- Exploit a veritable terabyte of tips on ramping up to a lean, mean, do-almost-anything machine
- Crack 'n hack with a full Gray's on PSP's anatomy
- Conjure with cookbook-style directions to brew up just the electronic magic you want
- Turn on Web browsing
- Compete live and remote with Beijing's (or Boise's) best gamers
- Download hot audio and movie functions with clips from the companion Web site
- Polish up PSP's hardware for greater durability, memory, and stylin'
- Grab the coolest games with the author's expert ratings
- Clone PSP hacks for other digital devices you may own
- Learn about the hottest PSP Web sites, forums, and other resources
- Speak PSP with a full command file and expert glossary
- Download the entire book onto your PSP
- Go where no gamer has gone before!
TAKE PSP(tm) TO THE OUTER LIMITS OF COOL -- AND USEFUL!
