Sony has released quite a few downloadable demos of games lately, like Loco Roco, Ape Escape Academy 2 and Ridge Racers 2, which can downloaded and saved on the Memory Stick.

You can find links to most demos on the PSP Fanboy site, along with instructions on where to save them.

If you are browsing via the PSP there is a nice page to make it easier to download them directly, just go to net4psp.com and click on PSP Demo Downloads.

Several of the newer demos require that you run firmware v2.80 or later, which is unfortunate, but there are demos available for older firmware versions as well so you don't have to break the homebrew abilities.

In firmware v2.80 there is an added Flash player for the PSP and there are a few Flash based games out there wich can be downloaded and played. You can find a package of arcade games on PSP 411.

Today I released version 1.3 of my PSP utility pspcp for Linux (and other BASH enabled OS's). The script is a handy little utility to copy data to the PSP, re-encoding mp3 songs on the fly and backing up the data.

The new version adds functionality to list detailed information about the songs as well as a feature to list Memory Usage on the Memory Stick and som other informational options.

Read more about the updates and download the script from this page.

The main feature added in the 2.00 firmware is of course the Internet browser which is HTML 4.01 compliant which means it can handle a lot of the advanced pages on the web. It doesn't have support for Flash though, which in my oppinion is perfectly fine, as it is mostly used for ads and bad games and hardly ever for any important content.

Read on for the review of the PSP web browser.

Sony released a major update of the PSP firmware today on the Japanese update page, for those with a Japanese PSP it's also available with the Network Update option on the PSP, which requires a Wi-Fi connection to Internet.

Read on for detailed information about the upgrade.

Apparently it's possible to browse the internet using Wipeout Pure and creating a proxy to handle the requests. I don't have Wipeout yet so I'm not able to try this out, but it sure looks interesting. Read about how it's done. Unfortunately it requires quite a bit of technical knowledge at the moment, but hopefully someone will release something to make it work automatically soon.

I now have the Airform Pocket in blue color and I thought I'd mention a few things about it.

Read on for the full review.

This is an article on using the Sony PSP (Playstation Portable) when you're running Linux. I don't claim to have any special knowledge of either the PSP or Linux, this is just some notes about my experiences with getting my PSP up and running together with my computer.

This is a short introduction on how to use the PSP to watch videos from the Memory Stick. It contains information on where to save the video files as well as how to create videos that can be used on the PSP.

Update: I've added information on how to create movies for the PSP in Linux using ffmpeg.

These are the full specifications of the Sony PSP as released by Sony in their press release.

I've created a shell script that makes my life with the PSP a bit easier. It can select random songs from my mp3 library and copy them automatically to the PSP and even re-encode them on the fly so that I can fit more songs on my Memory Stick. It can also backup all data on the Memory Stick or selected data types, show information about the PSP and more.

Version 1.3 of pspcp was released on August 26, 2005. Information about the changes and a link to the new version is available inside the article.