I have got top five tips for the PSP submitted by John from our community at live.pirillo.com as we've uploaded this to you too. These are just hidden tips. You may have different ones for the PSP. Feel free to submit them to me chris@pirillo.com is my email address.
He suggests, number one, keep all parts free of dust as much as possible. Just like a computer, dust can damage PSP components and even the screen, and that's true. In fact my screen definitely needs cleaning. I haven't even done anything with it. It looks like I sneezed on the screen. I need to get one of those screen protectors which you can't get or custom cut to the size or the shape of your screen.
Number two, buy a PSP case rather than a PSP pouch, and I would agree. A case is harder and of course a pouch would be softer. This means, if you accidentally drop your case and I hope you don't, in most cases, the PSP inside, I guess the components inside may survive. Let me put it this way. There is a better chance of surviving in this than it does with -- I am not going to drop the actual PSP. I am not that stupid. So get a case. Get something harder.
Number three, and he says really express these tips. Only purchase a memory stick "duo", a Pro Duo, that has enough space or capacity for what you need. For example, there's no use buying a 2 GB Memory stick if you only use the PSP once in a while and only put like five songs on it, and maybe 10 pictures. It will save you money in the long run and make you not think twice about why you bought it.
Number four, always check the status of your PSP's battery. You may not know this, but as time goes on, battery capacity actually decreases. And if you don't replace the battery at all, it will come to a point where you can only run it on the charger plugged into an outlet. So if you notice that battery life is shortening, get a new one. I guess Sony has just recently come out with a higher capacity battery that seems to extend the life of the newer PSP better than it does the older one even though it will still work with the older one. I tried buying one on eBay. It fit inside the PSP but it bolted out and it didn't have a replacement cover for it. So it kind of looked like junk and I could never get it to work. For some reason it just would not work. When I charge my PSP, it's never through an AC adapter, it's through, well, I have got one. I have got a retractable charging cable that I carry with me, and then I've got one of these bad boys that I keep in my drawer at home that connects with many USB, and then of course there's for the AC, "Traditional" AC adapter and it powers by USB, it connects by USB. It's all in one cable, saves a lot of space and a lot of cord and cable clutter, at least in my opinion.
Number five, when playing a game at least on the UMD, that disc and that's the UMD. If you've got a PSP, you know UMD looks like this. This is UMD, and these things are useless, unless you have a PSP. I hate you Sony. So reason why I hate Sony, they love coming up proprietary everything, proprietary everything. I hate the word proprietary especially in relation. I give the gaming platforms -- and it's like I excuse them, because of course everything on the Xbox 360 only works on the Xbox 360. So it's just assumed that everything for the PSP is only going to work on the PSP.
The thing that makes me mad though is that there's no other way of reading those UMDs, not just the games but like the movies that I don't even think they're making anymore on UMDs. I only have one UMD movie and that's the nightmare before Christmas and that's just because Pondie got it for me for Christmas one year. But I am never going to watch it on the PSP.
Anyway, when playing a UMD game, I never under any circumstances attempt to remove the UMD when the game is in session. This will actually corrupt the data on the UMD, and lead the disc to be no longer useable. I don't know how it corrupt the UMD because -- it may damage the UMD reader because it's not really touching it. It's just a LaserDisc. No matter, I don't think it's a good idea to remove anything when it's spinning around or went in operation. So I think that's a good tip for just about everybody or anybody that if it's running, don't do anything with it. Turn it off, turn it down. Shut it off then do something. Make sure it's not in operation before removing a disc. I'd say that the same thing for any kind of of operation on the PC.
Although, I think it was much more important in the days of floppy disks, and not removing a floppy disk during a right operation because there was actual physical contact happening with the disk versus today where it's all about lasers. You still don't want to do that, play it safe. So those are PSP tips. I don't know if they are awesome.
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