iRiver AFT 100 Mobile Transmitter

My Griffin iTrip recently gave up the ghost so I just ordered the iRiver AFT 100. (I was never that impressed with the iTrip's range anyway.) I use my PSP as my only mp3 player and the factory radio in my truck doesn't have an auxiliary input. I can't do without my podcasts so a FM transmitter is the easiest and cheapest solution. I'll let you know how it works once I receive it and have a chance to use it.

Details on Skype for PSP piss me off

A couple of details have come out about Skype coming to the PSP. The most important detail is that supposedly it will only work on PSP slims. This is BS. I have a phat, and now I have to buy a new PSP for no good reason? Are you going to tell me there is some reason Skype won't run on a PSP phat? I'm so glad I run CFW so that I can rely on the homebrew community to undo this injustice.

Skype for PSP coming

This has to be the biggest news I've heard in a while on the PSP scene. Sony unofficially released news of Skype coming to the PSP. ComputerandVideoGames.com broke the story here.

RS-GUI PopstationMD and ImpalerPSX Eboot Creator

RS-GUI and ImpalerPSX are gui interfaces for DarkAleX's multiple disk popstation. I was going to do a head-to-head comparison of these two apps but I don't believe either one is really near a final version. I will give you my findings up to now:

RS-GUI:
Pros:

• Supports img, cue, bin, and iso
• Interface is O.K.
• Full preview of icon and wallpaper png's (along with error messages if the sizes of images are incorrect, nice touch)

Cons:

• No automatic game codes. This feature is coming but not implemented yet.
  
• I received an error message and that's pretty much all it said: "error occurred" during my first attempt at creating a multidisk eboot. After using PSX2PSP to find my game code, I had input "slus " in lowercase letters. I changed to uppercase and no error.

ImpalerPSX:
Pros:

• Interface is nice and clean.
• Input the game's name and it will give a list of possible game codes.

Cons:

• Only supports iso. Since my game images are img, I had to use UltraISO to convert them to iso.
  
• ImpalerPSX has to copy your game iso's to another folder to work on them. This takes a long time: 4 disk game X 650 MB (minimum) each disk = a long wait.
• The app consistently locked up on me. I wasn't able to complete the eboot creation process. I tried to contact Impaler but his feedback page on his website gave me a 404 error and I couldn't find a forum thread to get help. I think that converting the img to iso is the problem.

I am going to put this comparison on hold. Please don't take these criticisms too seriously since neither of these apps seems complete. Here is what I would like to see if I were going to use one of these to create multidisk eboots for all my PSX games:

• Red Squirrel needs to add automatic game codes. I hate opening another app to find the code for this app. Also, better error messages: tell me what I'm doing wrong.
• Impaler needs to add other image formats other than just iso. I shouldn't have to use another app to convert to iso. I will continue to try and get a usable eboot out of this app, hopefully the problem is something I am doing wrong.

These developers are very good at what they do. I have to utmost confidence that both of these apps will eventually become what we need them to be. Can't wait for updates....just need to be patient....