PSP Hacks

Credits

About the Author

Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, Clinton Kennedy Sample III (no relation to either president) has been known as “C.K.” since he was a child. In fact, none of the men named Clinton Kennedy in his family have used “Clinton” as their name. His father goes by “Ken,” from their middle name, and his grandfather used to go by “Sam,” from their last name.

C.K. does entirely too much. Besides writing this book, he has contributed in the past to Mac OS X Panther Hacks by Rael Dornfest and James Duncan Davidson, and served as technical editor and contributor to iPod and iTunes Hacks by Hadley Stern. He is also a sometimes contributor to Hadley’s Apple Matters web site (http://www.applematters.com). C.K. is an avid blogger and user of Apple computers, and besides writing in his own blog, Sample the Web (http://www.sampletheweb.com), he is the lead blogger for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (http://www.tuaw.com) and a contributor to TV Squad (http://www.tvsquad.com), Cinematical (http://www.cinematical.com), and PSP Fanboy (http://www.pspfanboy.com).

Besides all these “hobbies,” he works full time as an Instructional Technologist, offering professors aid and instruction in the use of technology in the classroom at Fordham University, where he is also working on his dissertation in English.

He currently lives in Bronxville, New York with his lovely wife, Kristin, and his pet Eclectus parrot, Mikhail “Misha” Baryshnikov.

Contributors

• Seth Fogie is the vice president of Airscanner Inc., a security software company that focuses on protecting devices that run the Pocket PC/Windows Mobile platform. Seth has coauthored several security books (Maximum Wireless Security, Security Warrior, Agressive Network Self Defense, etc.), articles, and technical reviews, and has presented at security conferences such as BlackHat, Defcon, and CSI. In addition, Seth is a security cohost for InformIT.com, where he maintains the Security Reference Guide and writes and reviews articles.

• David P. Julian was born in September 1981, and he works as an aviation communications technician. He currently resides with his wife in Fort Wayne, Indiana. David served in the U.S. Army Special Operations from 1999 to 2005 as a helicopter communication and navigation technician. He constantly maintains a hobby of reverse-engineering consumer electronics to further his understanding of a technologically driven world. NSDQ!

• LiquidIce (http://psphacks.blogspot.com).

• Dan Mastin lives to mod. Check out his site, Duey2K (http://www.duey2k.com).

• James McMurry (http://www.jamesmcmurry.com) is an accomplished technologist with an entrepreneurial mindset, with over 15 years of combined experience in information technology, telecommunications, networking, management, and software development. He is currently working for a start-up he cofounded in Orange County, CA. In his copious amount of free time, he enjoys being with his family.

• Jacob Metcalf is an avid old-school video game hipster nerd. He runs the weblogs 8bit Joystick (http://www.8bitjoystick.com/) and Young Democrats of Washington State (http://www.ydwa.org/). He lives in Bremerton, Washington and drinks too much coffee.

• Thomas Novotny, born in 1987 in Austria, and currently studying technical computer science at a higher technical school there, is interested in hardware and software development for various platforms and game development.

• Kevin Sample is currently pursuing his Master of Architecture degree at Texas A&M. While not working on projects, he tries to wind down playing his PSP. He does plenty of other things as well, but they aren’t really pertinent to this book, and he has never written a biography for himself for a book. However, he is enjoying typing this because he is using a narrator voice as he writes it. It’s just good, plain fun.

• Jonathan Terleski is a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While there, he has focused on combining his skills in philosophy, design, psychology, and computer science to study interaction and user-centered design. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science in logic and computation and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. Currently, Jonathan is working toward his master’s degree in human-computer interaction.

• Phillip Torrone is an author, artist, and engineer, and is Associate Editor of MAKE. He has authored and contributed to numerous books on mobile devices, design, multimedia, and hacks, and regularly writes for Popular Science. His projects have appeared in Wired, Popular Science, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, G4TechTV, NPR, and elsewhere. Phillip also produces the MAKE audio and video content on the Makezine.com site. Prior to MAKE, Phillip was Director of Product Development for creative firm Fallon Worldwide, best known for their award-winning work on BMW films.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the O’Reilly team for making this process as pain-free as possible. Special thanks to my editor, Brian Jepson, for being willing to get down and dirty with some code for a few of the hacks.

Thanks to Samuel Cuneo for being the technical editor on this book.

Thanks to my friends, family, and coworkers for supporting this endeavor, especially my sister-in-law, Maggie, for lending her help on a few of these hacks. Thanks to my wife, Kristin, for being very supportive of all the work that went into this book—all the gadgets, games, and bits and pieces of things cluttering our small apartment—and for understanding that all that time with a PSP in my hands was research for the book.

Thanks to God for giving me the strength to stop playing the PSP long enough to write a book about it. I’ve got several months of game playing to catch up on, once this thing is fully finished!

Also, thanks to the great PSP Internet community and all the contributors who helped make this book what it has become.