PSP 3.90 firmware update with Skype available

Paul
Oh yes, Skype for your PSP-2000 (aka, PSP Slim & Lite) series is now a reality. At least outside of Japan. It’s only available via network update at the moment and adds expanded support for PLAYSTATION Network titles. You do have your $20 PSP Headset right? Good, so what are you waiting for punk, get outta here and let us know how it goes.

[Via PSP Fanboy, thanks to everyone who sent this in]
[Via Engadget]

For those of you who have been waiting for this. I thought I’d give you this little update for people who would like to make skype calls on your PSP.

Save Ink, Paper, and Money with GreenPrint

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Windows only: Save money on ink and paper while helping the environment with GreenPrint World Edition. The freeware version of the otherwise shareware GreenPrint offerings, GreenPrint World Edition identifies and removes unnecessary pages or space—like images you don’t need to waste ink on or pages with lone URLs—from your print jobs. GreenPrint also keeps track of just how much money, paper, and greenhouse gases you’re saving by using it. The freeware world version includes most of the best features of its shareware siblings, so give it a try and start saving both white and green ($) paper today. GreenPrint is freeware, Windows only. For a closer look at how it works, check out their screencast.

GreenPrint World Edition [via Download Squad]
Here is a nice little application to help you realize just how much paper you’ve saved by printing to paper. It will save ink and Your printer in the long run!

Restore Your Data with Time Machine

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time-machine.pngOf course you know all about Time Machine’s marquee feature—the ability to browse your files back in time—but Blogger James Duncan Davidson details Time machine’s equally-excellent-in-its-simplicity feature: restoring an entire system after a hard drive crash. The process is painless. Simply boot from the Leopard install disc with a fresh hard drive in place of your crashed drive; instead of continuing with the install process, go to Utilities -> Restore System from Backup. Then select your backup source (your Time Machine drive), choose which backup you want to restore (most likely you’ll want the most recent), then pick the destination drive (your new drive). Then it’s simply a matter of kicking back and waiting for Time Machine to do its magic. When all’s said and done, your entire system (with a few small exceptions) should be back in the exact same state you left it. I’ve already done this a couple of times myself, and frankly, it feels good. The simplicity of Time Machine really does compel you.

Restoring from Time Machine [DuncanDavidson via TUAW]
Thought people with Macintosh’s should of needed a reminder for this little application in Mac OS X. Enjoy

One-Click Jailbreak for iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware

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Last week I detailed how to jailbreak your iPhone to the 1.1.3 firmware using Windows- or Mac-based applications and walking through a fairly long process. If that process was a bit too daunting for you, the Jailbreak Dev Team has released a one-click solution that you simply install through Installer.app. To use it, you need to have a jailbroken 1.1.2 iPhone (here’s how to do that), then it’s simply a matter of tapping the install package and waiting about 20 minutes for the entire process to complete. Before installing, make sure you’ve set your Auto-Lock feature to Never, are connected to a Wi-Fi network (it downloads a 200MB image), and you’ve got at least 300MB of free space on your iPhone. Finally, check to make sure you’ve got the latest version of Installer.app before proceeding.

I haven’t tried this method yet, but it should be scads easier than the previously posted method. As always, remember that things can go wrong, so proceed with caution. If anything does go wrong, check the panic section of this page to restore your phone to the 1.1.1 firmware and try again. As far as I know, this method will still require you to manually enable the Faux-GPS feature. Also, rumor has it that the current jailbreak method may mess with the upcoming third-party apps (though one would assume you could always downgrade and start fresh if you needed to)

This is for the IPhone people who want to jail break the newest version and use it for you own. Use at your own risk though, I will not be responsible for any damages to the Iphone. I do however want to hear if this works or not?

Hulu Discusses Private Beta, Suggests Public Launch Time Frame

Paul


I had the chance yesterday to sit down with Eric Feng, the CTO of Hulu, to discuss how things have gone during its private beta and where the service is heading in 2008. Here are some of the things I learned:

  • Hulu currently has “several hundred thousand users” who have submitted “tens of thousands” of feedback messages.
  • The public launch should come in the next couple of months, probably around the end of March.
  • High definition video will be rolled out gradually over the coming year with more and more content; the company believes that 2008 will be a year when online video companies start focusing less on convenience and more on quality.
  • Hulu has tripled its amount of content since private beta launch, with many episodes of shows going back to the first seasons, not just the last five that have aired on TV.
  • Downloads might come in the long term, but they are not something that Hulu is focusing on currently.
  • RSS feeds have been added so users can keep track of new content added to the site.

[Via TechCrunch]

I didn’t copy everything just the points that I thought were most important for people to to find out about what Hulu is going to do in the coming months.