Mainstream and niche publishers are going after readership from Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) owners who are all gamed out. Afterall, how many times can you race a rocket-powered hovercar through futuristic landscapes while listening to mind-bending trance?

Downloadable PSP "magazines" seem to be dominated by pictorials of underdressed women pulled from magazines like Maxim and Sports Illustrated. Yet, others are creating original content and/or reformatting content onto the PSP. The PSP Mag is one such PSP-zine that delivers some useful, interesting, and fun content in the form of pictures, music, and video formatted to view on your PSP. They also distribute a "Mag Only" version that omits the audio/video content.

All you do is download a 20-30 MB zip file and unzip it onto your PSP memory stick (usually to the PSP folder on the stick). Then view the magazine as a photo slideshow on the PSP. These pictures-as-pages are surprisingly easy to read. The built-in back light and amazing PSP display becomes a vibrant platform for comfortable reading.

I was contacted by one of the editors of The PSP Mag. He asked to publish my post here about using the PSP with a Junxion Box to play games and surf the web over a cellular link. You may now find that article in easy-to-read PSP pixels in the August issue of The PSP Mag. This issue is all about Wi-Fi on the PSP. It's free, and apart from a few glaring typos here and there, it's worth a look. Now someone needs to create an RSS feed/reader to put content like this straight into my PSP.

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