Tuesday, June 07, 2005

manga in my pocket

some of you may recall a while back when i was attempting to get a free ipod. to start off for those who do not know, i did indeed get my free ipod. however what many do not know is that i also got...


... a free IPod Shuffle and a free Sony PSP.

if you too would like a free Sony Playstation Portable, just click the link under the pic and follow the instructions.

now getting free stuff isn't the main point of this entry. i just wanted to let you guys know where i aquired the psp, so when i explain what what i did with it you won't be all, "well where did he get the psp ?"

ok! so i came across an article that showed how to put manga (japanese comics for u non-geeks) on to the PSP. i became interested and decided to try it out. now there is a program called PSPPhoto that compresses the manga images to fit the PSP screen. this is needed because this also shrinks the file sizes down so they don't take up the whole mem stick. after downloading PSPPhoto read the readme file and click on the top link to download the Microsoft .NET Framework, cause the program won't install without them. this is for windows xp users, i'm not sure what they have to the other operating systems. installing the framework was the hardest part for me, cause well i fucked up. lol

but it shouldn't be a big deal for the rest of you...whoever you are.

so i got it up and running and got the files onto the PSP.



as you can see i have Cowboy Bebop on there, however after the first time putting the pics on there i realized that before (or after it doesn't matter) putting them on the psp i had to rotate all the pics counter clockwise so they can be read when the unit is held vertically.

there are other special notes, but you can find them all in the readme file the comes with PSPPhoto.




ok i'm off to work...enjoy.

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