An Embedded PSP Keyboard

Totally off topic when it comes to archives, but I found this section of an O’Reilly PSP Hacks book. It explains how to put a keyboard on your PSP.
One problem, though. The hack says you need a server for the keyboard to reside on. Actually, you don’t need a server. You can embed the keyboard in your PSP. Just copy the code provided in the hack into a text editor on your computer. Then save it with a filename you can remember. I called mine kb.html. Next, connect your PSP to your computer, and load the file in the root directory of your PSP. Open your browser, and enter file:/kb.html (or whatever you named your file). Then, bookmark the file, and you can use the keyboard at any time without accessing a server.

Now, if someone could just create a text editor for PSP.

Ebooks and PSP

This is definately off topic, but I have been playing with the PSP my sister got me for Christmas, and I just put an ebook on it. I bought a 2GB Sandisk memory card this week, so I have been playing around with it. I decided to see if I could put James Petigru Boyce’s Abstract of Systematic Theology on my PSP just for kicks. I went to the Founders Ministries website, because they have the .html text there. Luckily, when I went into the index for the book, they had a tar.gz file of the whole book there. I simply downloaded it and unzipped it into a folder on my PC’s desktop. I called the folder “boyce”. Then I connected my PSP and my PC via USB and just moved the folder over to the E drive (the drive that represents my PSP).

Now here is the not so tricky part. I found the table of contents file that provided the main structure for the rest of the site. I opened the browser on my PSP and entered the address file:/boyce/toc.html. I bookmarked it so that I would never have to manually enter the address again. I now have a fully functional copy of the entire book that I can read whenever I want.

If you can get to the directories (folders) of other such html based books that do not have the tar.gz files, you can use the firefox extension Down Them All to download all of the files into a folder you can put on your PSP.

I love technology.