October 11, 2005
Nice move: Novell anounced the launch of the Better Desktop initiative as part of the openSUSE project. A serious amount of Novell’s usability research, including 200 movies of people using various desktop software, is going to be released in the public domain. For most developers it is very difficult to predict how an ordinary user will use their software, so these studies might be very helpful for the open source movement to build more usable applications.
According to this article, Datel is going to launch an external hard disk drive which can be attached to the PSP’s memory stick port. The disk is said to have a capacity of 4 Gigabyte and comes with an X2 replacement battery, which should have twice the capacity of the regular battery. The price for the device has not yet been announced.
With all the hacks floating around and the PSP’s networking capabilities, I guess it was just a matter of time until someone would release it: These people report running a web server on a PSP. The actuall PSP hosted site can not be reached right now, the blog says they are having bandwith problems at their ISP.
