PocketMac for PSP

By C.K. Sample, III

This morning, after receiving a tip from Anthony (Thanks, Anthony!), I picked up a copy of
PocketMac for PSP for the special introductory price of $9.95. The program creates an iSync conduit between your PSP and your Mac and sort-of makes the PSP a PDA.  It copies any pictures you put in a special PocketMac photoalbum in iPhoto as well as any songs in a PocketMac Playlist in iTunes over to your PSP.  Additionally, it scans your Contacts from either your entire OS X
Address Book / Entourage Address Book and makes them into images (each contact a separate image) uploaded to a Photo directory called Contacts on your PSP's Memory Stick, so that you can flip through your contacts on the go. It does this amazingly fast.

While this is pretty cool, the program is at 1.0 currently, so be warned.  The installer defaulted to installing to my Applications folder originally, but this caused the program to repeatedly crash at launch. I had to reinstall and make sure it installed to the root level of the hard drive for it to work.  Then after I got it up and running, I ran the Check for Updates option from within the program and it said that there was an update available,
launched my browser, shut down PocketMac for PSP, and opened to an updates page for a different PocketMac product.
Also, for some reason there are lots of little Corrupted Data files stuck between the Contact JPEGs when I am scrolling through them on the PSP.

Despite these little bugs, I do have automated syncing of my contacts to my PSP, and that is very nice. I'd be much more pleased, however, if Sony released something that did this without the whole convert to JPEG workaround when they release their PSP to Mac solution later this year.

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