For you ultra-geeky homebrew fans out there, check out PSPdisp v0.2, which just dropped on the 14th. This is an innovative homebrew application from JJS that allows you to use your PSP as an additional monitor for Windows.

Check out this explanation from its developers:

… on Windows, a display driver, an USB driver and the interface application which captures the screen, compresses it and sends it over USB to the PSP. On the PSP side there is an application that decompresses the frames and displays them. All settings are adjustable from the Windows side, the PSP really only acts as a…

The ever-popular jpcsp v0.1 Java-based PSP emulator, which we just reviewed on January 13th, has again been upgraded: jpcsp v0.1 Revision 894 is available here, and you’ll just want to put on your silly hat and dig right in.

With an unprecedented degree of efficiency, Shadow and his JPCSP team have turned out another iteration of the software that’s been well-received from the underground for its technically-advanced rendering of the PSP hardware. Unfortunately, no changelog accompanies this revision, so you’ll have to plug away yourself and draw your own conclusions. We’ll bet that the most important updates are in the form…

In some exciting news from the homebrew scene, a developer named pegasus2000 is moving forward with a project known as Nanodesktop Blind Assistant. This cutting-edge piece of software will assist the vision-impaired with a number of functions.

Although there’s no new official release, pegasus2000 has offered up some proof of concept videos which detail some of the functionality of the software. Blind Assistant will allegedly handle voice recognition in the new core release of CFW0005. Later versions may include a vocal e-mail client, a color scanner, and a face recognition function.

Check out the two proof of concept videos to see a…

Fresh from the genius mind of homebrew developer Total_Noob is the latest iteration of Ultimate VSH Menu, titled Ultimate VSH Menu v1.01. It’s loaded up with some handy new features and Total_Noob has smoothed over some really annoying bugs, so fans of the project will be tickled pink. Here’s the changelog, in case you’re on the edge of your seat:

Changelog v1.01

• Fixed much bugs
• Ultimate VSH Menu is now much more stable
• Don’t activated VSH Menu in OSK
• If “ms0:/PSP/GAME/VSHMENU/EBOOT.PBP” does not exist, it will not loaded
• changed much in the menu
• Added a small function to disable M33 VSH Menu
• Added “SCREENSHOT” to make screenshots(”R” +…

An awesome application for homebrew lovers is now circulating: Xmb-Launcher v1.00, from Smokescreen, promises to be a very handy utility that’ll make home-cooked goodness a little more accessible for everybody. Here’s the instruction list:

• dd xmblauncher(pwr or nopwr*).prx to vsh.txt
• add your favorite game to xmbgame1_RUP.txt or xmbgame2_RDOWN.txt
• add your favorite homebrew to xmbpbp1_RUP.txt or place all hb content in xmbpbp2_LDOWN folder
• enable xmblaucher(pwr or nopwr*).prx in cfw recovery menu
• start xmb menu and press L+UP to launch hb#1 or L+DOWN to load hb#2 out of the xmbpbp2_LDOWN folder or press R+UP to launch game#1 or R+DOWN to load game#2

Grab this handy application and rock…

The MacroFire plugin, developed by the homebrew code samurai known as “pen”, has been updated to version 2.4.1. This is a multi-functional plugin that does things like remap buttons, changes the analog stick’s sensitivity, and implements a rapid-fire mode.

Unfortunately, you need to know Japanese to understand the technical stuff of the plugin, as that’s what the readme’s written in. Run it through a translator to get a gist of the functionalities.

The following changes have been made to the plugin in this version:

• macrofire.ini new “AlternativeButtons” “Remap” “Rapidfire” “Macro” section added. Manual_ini.txt more information.
• Analog stick to adjust the menu to add a…