Sunday, March 1, 2009

How to Use Sony Playstation Portable as the second monitor

Windows only: If you're on the look out for a new trick to teach your PSP, using it as supplemental monitor for your Windows rig is pretty sweet trick indeed.

Like many of the other awesome PSP based projects we have suggested here at Lifehacker—like using your PSP as a universal remote and controlling iTunes with your PSP— this requires a little bit of homebrew magic. The results are quite impressive however. Once you install PSPDisp and tether your PSP to your computer with a USB cable, you can use it as an independent display. Update: several readers have reported that they can tether over WiFi. Thanks guys! Check out the video:

Widgets, instant messaging windows, etc. can all be placed on the tethered screen. Additionally you can reverse the video and have the display on the PSP appear on your computer monitor. If you've never messed around with homebrew PSP software before check out the wealth of information at PSP Homebrew to get your feet wet. We're short a PSP here at the Lifehacker office, but quite excited by the potential of this handy little hack.

Source : lifehacker

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