Skype is an instantly communicate tool that can change PSP to PSP phone and call home telephone. Can you image that the authentic game player can be use as a phone to make common call to your friends? Skype for PSP can call other Skype user free, including PC Skype, mobile phone Skype and others.

Recently, after Sony update PSP firmware to version 3.90, use Skype to make PSP as PSP phone is an easy job.

The article has three parts, list as follow:
Part one. How to use Skype to make PSP as PSP phone (requests 3.90 firmware, Mic phone )
Part two. How to Rip DVD to PSP phone with DVD Ripper software (on Windows )
Part three. How to go to internet on PSP (The basic to use Skype for PSP)

Part one: How to use Skype to make PSP as PSP phone.
Skype just can be use on PSP Slim firmware version 3.90 and above, so if you don’t have the right version, please go here to download the firmware v3.90 - http://www.daniusoft.com/tutorial/download.html, but not 3.90 M33.

1.Update PSP Slim to V3.90.
After download the firmware above, extract the PSPV3.90 rar file and find the file named EBOOT.PBP.
Connect PSP to PC with USB, open the memory stick, go to the ‘GAME’ folder, create new folder name ‘UPDATE’, copy the EBOOT.PBP and put it on.
Now, turn on PSP, go to Game — Memory Stick, you’ll see the update file.

Press ‘Enter’ key to run the file. It’ll show your instructions about how to finish the update issue.

Notice: Please must make sure the battery at least has 50% power when you begin to update.
When update finished, you can go to Settings — System Settings –System Information to check the version of your PSP. If you do the right update, it’ll show System Software Version 3.90.

2.How to use Skype on PSP Slim.
Skype need special earphone to call ordinary number. There are three ear phones: Single Pack, Twinpack, Lepo PSP Slim & lite -Headphones & Mic With Remote Control, anyone of them is OK.

First, after upda PSP to V3.90, you can find the ‘Skype’ logo at ‘Network’.
Second, press ‘enter’ button to run ‘Skype’.
If you can’t see Skype logo after update to V3.90, then you should active Skype function as follow:
1)Turn off PSP, press R button and turn on PSP at the same time.
2)Go to ‘Configuration’, change Fake region to America or any other just not Japan. Return to open Skype again.

Remember create internet connection on PSP before you run Skype on it. If you don¡¯t know how to do, please go to Part Three first.
Third, create new account.
When you run Skype, it’ll turn the background of psp to blue, and ask Log in or Create New Account.

Here we choose create a new account.

1)Choose create new account, enter your nick, and then enter another user name, it’s your Skype account that can be use to log in, different from nickname. Enter a password and email, accept the condition like register at forum.
2)Now, it needs connect to internet, select the network we do at Part Three.
3)Now, Skype auto check your register info.
4)OK, if you do everything right, then register succeed.
Now, you have your Skype account, run it and fill the log in info. Before you can use the Skype, it requests ‘Skype Test Call’. Insert the earphone mentioned above and follow the instruction to do the test.
After finish the test, enter Skype main menu. It’ll take you some times to sync ‘Contacts’info.

Choose a contact who online now or you can use two PSP to log in, of course, with different account.
Press ‘enter’ button to call the one who online.

The one who was called can press ‘Enter’ to accept or ‘Back’ to refuse.
When you calling, you can keep the call, cut the call and check the info of the opposing party.
The dial keyboard can make you call ordinarily number if your Skype account have enough money.

Part Two: How to Rip DVD with DVD Ripper software on PSP phone (on Windows)

Besides Skype, as you know, PSP have many other functions such as play video, movie, music and take photos. The part one is make PSP into PSP phone, now let’s rip DVD on PSP phone with DVD Ripper software.

I have many DVDs, and it’s rebarbative to download movies from internet, I think many people feel that boring. The reason I choose this DVD Ripper is that I think it’s one of the best DVD Ripper that rips DVD with high quality and fast speed I even used on my PC. If you already have other dvd ripper software, you can rip dvd with what you have but not the follow steps.

1.Install Daniusoft DVD Ripper and load DVD.
2.Select the right format you want to rip and the output folder.

3.Press ‘Start’ to rip DVD movie to the right format.

This DVD ripper software can also set twice volume of output file, capture photo from DVD and save to computer. I capture photos when preview, it’s much convenient for me. It can rip DVD to all popular players, so I can use it for iPod, too.

4.After conversion, copy the file and put it to the ‘Movie’ folder or ‘Video’ folder, now you can
enjoy DVDs on your PSP phone. Don¡¯t forget, you can rip DVD just as personal not commercial.

Part Three: Go to internet on PSP.
If you have known how to do that, please go to part one.
If you still a freshman, please follow the steps to go to internet with your PSP.

1.Turn on PSP and go to Settings.
2.Find ‘Network Settings’ and enter.
3.Choose ‘Infrastructure Mode’.
4.Select ‘New Connection’.
5.Make it ‘Scan’. It will take seconds to scan around for wireless router.
6.After scan, choose the SSID you want to enter, before you can go to internet, you should enter your name and press ‘Enter’ to quit.
7.Go ahead. Select the network and enter it, then you need to input a ‘WEP Key’ before you can go to internet.

If you have Notebook and use wireless router, then you can import your wireless router ‘WEP Key’ here.
If you enter a wrong ‘WEP Key’, it will warning ‘The characters you entered are not valid’, that means you should connect again and get a right key.

Google App Engine is out and the premise is clear: Google against Amazon and Google getting ready to battle Microsoft when the latter decides to enter into the game.

The Google App Engine has been seen in the same way Blogger was when introduced previously to Google buyout: The Easiest Solution and for the masses.  the question is if it works as it should?

It does but there is doubt if it can really be used to host big projects. and if big projects will be using it since unlike Amazon web services. you choose a whole predefined package and not only the parts you only need like in Amazon web services where you chose from 3 parts, being able to use just one or all 3.

The Promises of Google are:

“Leveraging Google App Engine, developers can:

• Write code once and deploy. Provisioning and configuring multiple machines for web serving and data storage can be expensive and time consuming. Google App Engine makes it easier to deploy web applications by dynamically providing computing resources as they are needed. Developers write the code, and Google App Engine takes care of the rest.
• Absorb spikes in traffic. When a web app surges in popularity, the sudden increase in traffic can be overwhelming for applications of all sizes, from startups to large companies that find themselves rearchitecting their databases and entire systems several times a year. With automatic replication and load balancing, Google App Engine makes it easier to scale from one user to one million by taking advantage of Bigtable and other components of Google’s scalable infrastructure.
• Easily integrate with other Google services. It’s unnecessary and inefficient for developers to write components like authentication and e-mail from scratch for each new application. Developers using Google App Engine can make use of built-in components and Google’s broader library of APIs that provide plug-and-play functionality for simple but important features. “

And the set of features is described as:

But as with everything Google, where all is half truth and half reality, the initial limitations are severe and cannot give a exact projection on when we will see the full service running as it was envisionaed and much less if it will run in such a way.

Via Google App Engine Blog and Techcrunch

Facebook chat is already in use and in a deployment cycle. that leaves room to ask if previous Facebook chat and im solutions shoud just give up or if that dont even matters because they are as good as dead already?.

 What Facebook IM solutions?

Social.im

Social.im only goal was to provide the best Facebook IM client possible. such ambition was received with lot of free hype from large blogs and quite a pampering welcome by lots of Facebook users interested in speeding up the social interaction inside Facebook.

So far the client has shown to be good but nothing spectacular. there were rumors of it getting acquired to be integrated into the team working on the offical Facebook Chat.

While denied by Social.Im. the tone used to deny and some “playing dumb” innuendos could mean they did got acquired. something that should get cleared when facebook chat finally launches.

If they did not got acquired, then i must say it is pretty much game over for them, social.im never got pass Alpha, only had one focus. but that don`t means they could transform it into something else given the linage of the founders and the investors backing up social.im. same reason to believe they got acquired.

Social.im

Imo.Im

A small meebo competitor who provides a light wieight web IM client that reminds of the old Ebuddy and that now counts with a also light weight .net based desktop version.

They released a app to talk using imo.im but is pretty sure they will just scrape it and wait for a way to tap into the official chat and add support later.

The outcome for them cannot be estimated since they are two small of a competitor to have a crash and they could go any direction.

Imo.Im

Mosoto

Mosoto is another Meebo competitor with a twist, it also serves as social webtop. something that could be compared to Wixi. so they are part Wixi and part Meebo.

They do provide a Facebook IM solution but their focus is not just that and have gone for the social webtop angle. they provide a music player that can tap into box.net to serve your music. that integration also allows for file sharing and video sharing.

The product is dissapointing, it got a so-so chat experience and a so-so webtop experience. their mixed nature gets in the way and shows as the greatest fault because you cannot get a excelent expirience in either focus of the service.

The worst is that Mosoto continues to be a alpha product and web only. something that is not enough to compell anyone to exchange Meebo for Mosoto. much less because it has not properly launched.

The outcome is bleak, they should change or re-think their product.

Mosoto

Babuki

Babuki is the latest application to offer Facebook IM support but it also a full Desktop/Web(Flex)/FB8 App im client. so you can use it in 3 ways and in Mac or PC thanks to Adobe AIR. Babuki offers a Adobe AIR client that is very polished. all shows the greatest IM and Social Chat solutions, because it offers MySpace IM chat, a LiveJournal IM chat, a Facebook Chat and even supports their direct competition by offering Social.Im support. Something that should be seen as incredible.

And that is not all, they also offer two other advanced facebook Apps to complement their service and if you use Babuki, you can also send free sms to your contacts if supported.

Babuki, unlike the other services don`t goes for the “me too” route and improves over what meebo has, meebo up to this day don`t has a desktop client yet, much less one as good as the one shown by Babuki.

The outcome to Babuki should be good Facebook chat or not because of their wide offerings and thanks that they don`t depend all on Facebook.

I choose Babuki as the only compelling IM solution offering a better facebook chat than facebook own solution and one that can survive while they find a way to integrate the FB chat into Babuki.

Babuki

Those are the choices if you still don`t have Facebook chat and you find yourself impacient.

Adobe is not exactly a company known as friendly to Linux users, but now that is finally changing with the recent annoucement that they will be joining the Linux Foundation and that the only reasons they had not added Linux support for AIR until now is because they needed to wait for development to Flash core components to end first. This recent news provides a triple punch making official that Adobe will be now supporting their most widespread technologies for Linux at par with the development done in Windows and the Mac because they are now part of the Linux Foundation, that Flash for linux is now up to date compared to the other platforms and that thanks to that they will now be providing Adobe AIR 1.0 for linux along with Flex Builder for everyone to use.

While this moves may look as good spirited. I think that is only about the PR boost they expect to receive in exchange what Adobe is interested and because they knew they needed the good PR to balance things with Microsoft recent moves in this area.

Anyway, still a win for the Linux Crowd that now can go and download a Alpha version of Adobe AIR 1.0 and should finally be blessed with a better experience while handling Flash content.