Archive for August, 2006

Sony Playstation Portable: A taste of ink

Monday, August 21st, 2006

For all the cups of coffee I consumed and for all the sleepless nights I’ve spent, it finally paid off. I just bought a long-term investment for the child lurking inside of me, a brand new Sony PSP.

I spent a lot of time, choosing between a DS and a PSP. I visited a lot of gaming forums to find out the multimedia support of each and finally the decision was made final. I went for a Sony PSP even though some Sony haters out there keep on bashing this amazing company providing us with clear and crisp multimedia experience. I do not hate Nintendo nor do I love Sony, but my point here is choosing the right thing for you. And I think I have made the right decision. Sony PSP is just the thing that I have been looking for. Now I do not need to buy an iPod to have a mobile music player nor an iPod Video to have a portable video player. PSP’s got it all.

My Sony PSP

My brand new Sony PSP. Thanks to PSPwallpapers.com for the cool My Chemical Romance wallpaper.

I’ve got the Asian Version of the PSP which isn’t downgradable. Why would I want to downgrade? Because in PSPs, a downgrade is like an upgrade. Downgrading your firmware to 1.5 enables you to play homebrew games but I didn’t buy a PSP to downgrade it, I bought it to have a new multimedia experience. What are homebrew games anyway? These are full games which can be played on 1.5 firmware version of PSP but sacrificing the features of higher firmware versions like browser support. And hell yeah, the PSP’s browser works better than IE. Beat that.

For the next few days, I will be busy doing a lot of experiments and downloads for my PSP but that doesn’t mean I won’t accept any projects. Of course, the projects of my clients are my priority and now that I’ve seen PSP’s browser, I might as well add it to my CSS. I better research on how to hack CSS codes for the PSP browser though. I hope someone out there can give me a hint.

No updates for Stylemo yet

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

I’ve been very busy recently with work that’s why I can’t even start on the web design and layout of my own site. My current company, where I’m employed right now, is giving me too many projects to deal with that I can’t even post updates here. Well anyway, I’ll be starting a design for Stylemo once I finish all my projects.

I’ve currently discovered a new Open Source CMS. It’s called Code Igniter and the latest version is 1.3.3. I’m still studying the system if I can use it for my website or not. It’s for PHP developers and programmers and I’m still on the basic level of PHP so I’d study it carefully if I can use it for future projects.

Taken from the Code Igniter Home: If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks that require rocket science to understand, Code Igniter might just be the right tool for you.