There a PSP sync tool made by Pocket Mac that can sync personal contacts to the PSP by creating some JPEG files containing the info. This is hardly an origional idea and by using some other programs you can do this yourself.

1. First open up your contact program and export a LDIF file or what every text based file format it uses. I use Mozilla Thunderbird since it rocks so very hard. It is under Address Book : Tools : Export then pick a LDIF.

2. Then open up the exported file into OpenOffice.org Writer Or NeoOffice/J for you OSX dorks. Edit out the lines of text and extra data that you don't need. You can just do some search and replace with blank space. Format it with a nice san-serif font and a small size that is still readable on a smaller screen. Make sure you set it to Screen layout so there is no page break.

3. Then export a PDF file out of OpenOffice.org. The reason why we need to do this is that the PSP needs a Jpeg file and OpenOffice.org and most text editors can't export a static file without some serious screen capture work.

4. Take the PDF into a graphics tool like Graphic Converter or Photoshop. I tried to use Gimp but the PDF import did not work. Then crop out the white space and save a Jpeg file called Contact.jpg.

5. Then create a folder called PDA in your PSP photo directory and move it to your PSP memory stick. This works well when you have a text based document that will not fit in a single screen shot.

I also put the Puget Sound ferry times and my iCal schedule on my PSP by just taking screen shots, cropping them and exporting to a jpeg using Gimp or Graphics Converter. It works well for single page documents but I would not want to try to read the entire text of Neuromancer on the PSP.I wouldn't put any super private information on a PSP memory stick since there is no password protection or encryption. This is not dynamically synced at all and when you make major changes to your data on your PC or Mac you would need to do this over again.

I just hope that some one get's off their ass and ports Opera Mobile or Mozilla Minimo to PSP. How come the South Korean nerds are going to get a PSP Web browser UMD disk bundled as we are stuck trying to find new uses for small Jpegs?

I know plenty of people like my dad who use their PDAs for reading and retrieving data but use a PC to enter it. The PSP can do that and while it is not a full replacement for a PDA it can do some tasks that you would normally do on a PDA. Oh yeah and games on it kick much more ass than anything on Palm OS or Pocket PC.