Good news for those who have been missing AhMan's iR Shell after updating to Dark AleX's latest CFW update. According to the man himself, he'll be releasing an update that will be compatible with CFW 5.00 M33. Details after the link.

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Thanks to Syafiq for the tip!

*UPDATE* AhMan has released iR Shell 4.7! Get it while it's hot!

Download: iR Shell v4.7
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Finally, a practical homebrew for the PSP user who just wants to 'know' without a lot of awkward questions. Introducing the Gaydar v1.5 for the PSP. This is Locofocos's first release and is compatible with 1.50, 1.00 and custom firmwares.

Download: Gaydar v1.5
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Are you having problems with the infrared features of your 3.80 CFW-powered Sony PSPs when using homebrews such as PSPWrite or AFKIM? Worry no more as homebrew developer Angelo of the unofficial piKey team has released IrDA (infrared) Patcher to solve these issues. More details over at the full article.

Download: IrDA (infrared) Patcher

Homebrew coder Art has released a new version of his Time Baby homebrew application, bringing the version up to 14b. If you want to know what's changed since the previous iteration of Time Baby, visit the full article.


Download: Time Baby v14b
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If you thought that we've seen the last of Time Baby, then think again - homebrew developer Art has just rolled out a new version of the time-keeping homebrew for the Sony PSP, and this one has a new feature that's as awesome as it is convenient. Waking up will never be the same again. Check out all the details in the full article, if you think you're ready for it.

Download: Time Baby v14
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Remember this toy? That's the Picoo Z infrared helicopter model. Coder pacopad's homebrew application picoozIR lets you control this toy through your Sony PlayStation Portable with its previous build. Now on its version 4, you have a new flying engine among others. More details after the jump.

Download: PicoozIR v4

It's time for another update of Time Baby for the Sony PlayStation Portable by homebrew developer Art with less bugs and a better MP3 alarm. Time Baby version 13d, a rather quick update and the latest in the line that introduced infrared remote control compatibility, has sorted out most issues according to its creator. Learn more at the full article.

Download: Time Baby v13d
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The lucky folks over at gadget website T3 have gotten their hands on a pre-production model of the recently-announced Sony PlayStation Portable redesign. They've also taken pictures of the redesigned PSP as well as a few comparison pics with the original PSP.

According to T3, the redesigned PSP - referred to in some quarters as the PSPSlim, PSP Lite or PSP Slim & Lite - is 5 mm thinner and 3 mm shorter than the original. It's also lighter thanks to a brand new UMD mechanism.

Viewed from the front, it still looks pretty much the same and still has a 4.3-inch screen. The infrared port is now gone, and the Wi-Fi switch is now on top of the unit. Check out the images below for a closer look at the new PSP.

  

More images behind the full article link!

You've seen Neubit's Acidmod of Chotto Shotto into an IR-based night vision camera, and suffice to say, you pray one's not looking down on you as you sleep. Keep praying. F00 f00 tells us that Neubit got around to posting in Acidmods, Part One of his how to turn Sony's Chotto Shotto into an invasion of privacy lawsuit waiting to happen a night-vision camera.

We'll leave it as a Read link for the technically inclined to work on, that they may have dark-room recording capabilities, too. We can explain some of the details of the mod (Part One), not to mention how night-vision works, so that people who are still confused as to how night-vision devices (NVD) work will understand the mechanics behind this mod.

This mod falls under the category of active IR NVDs: they use infrared light (e.g., a remote control IR diode) as a "flashlight" to light up the night. The NVDs you might be more used to are passive NVDs used in the military, such as the one pictured left. They rely on low-light amplification with image intensifiers to lift the blanket of the night. IR NVDs are not normally used in military applications, as the opposition can detect the IR flashlight with their own IR NVDs.

IR-wavelength light is invisible, so our eyes can't pick them up. The Chotto Shotto camera can pick up IR light, but an IR light filter in the assembly filters out the IR spectrum. Part One of the mod involves taking this filter out of the picture, which (in low-light conditions) turns the Chotto Shotto into an active IR-ready NVD. Part Two, when Neubit posts it, will cover the IR flashlight built into the mod, but even with Part One, you could probably use a remote control as a mobile flashlight for your purposes, if it's powerful enough.

Now if that purpose involves videos that may require HideMov/HideMedia BETA II video file stealthing... you did not get this idea from us.

Thanks, F00 f00, for getting this idea to us, but we swear we're not getting any ideas (on how to use this thing)!

Kididio has just come out with the very first release of his IR Keyboard driver, the PSPik. Yep, that's a very low number, so you know what that means.

The PSPik v0.01 should allow you to use an IR keyboard to interact with your PSP, via the infrared port. Since it's 0.01 right now, you can be sure that this needs some tweaking and testing to work with all sorts of keyboards. That's pretty much where you folks come in.

According to his readme, this is a proof of concept release to get people to help in testing the driver and figuring out which IR keyboards it works with. As he writes on the readme itself (with some minor editing, of course):

This release was tested by some friends of mine, with multiple deployers from ir keyboards like Acer, Hama, Sony, LG and so on, but for every keyboard we must improve the code, so i can not grant any functionality to you, its ver 0.01 first, you can call it a pre-alpha... A working release for the mainstream keyboards will be coming up at the end of this year.

If you have an IR keyboard, and feel very daring, why not help Kididio out? You can pick up the necessary files from us at the download link below, and if you know your German, you could probably offer some input on their forums. Thanks to Shoesy for the tip.

Download: [PSPik v0.01]