I got a Sony PSP given to me for Christmas last year and I have to confess I haven’t used it that much. I’m not into all these modern games so much and would prefer playing the old classics like Tetris.

So I was looking at it the other day and thinking what else could I use it for other than playing games and having a wireless TV. Going through the menus I noticed the RSS Channel which wasn’t there when I first got it so must have been part of an upgrade.

So I delved a little deeper into it and it turns out that the Sony PSP now supports Podcasts. You simply enter the RSS feed of the podcast you want to subscribe to into the internet browser and it will recognize it as a feed and ask you if you want to add it to the RSS Channels. Once you’ve done this you can then select the feed in the RSS Channels menu and it will list all of the available episodes.

You then have more options with the episodes and can choose to stream it live on your PSP or save it to your memory stick. Saving it I think is a better option if you’ve got room as once your playing the file you can fast forward and rewind until your hearts content without having to wait for the PSP to catch up with its buffering.

When you’ve saved the file it appears under the Music menus as it is an MP3 and the Sony PSP thinks it will be a music file.

So if you don’t have an iPod and normally listen to podcasts on your PC a Sony PSP is a good way of listening to podcasts on the move.

I have resisted getting a satellite navigation system for years now after my first experience of using one. I was going to the Channel Tunnel from Milton Keynes and when I got to the M1 it told me to turn left (the opposite direction I needed to be going in).

Naturally I turned right and the message on the screen came up “Recalculating Route” and then told me to carry straight on for 25 miles or so.

After that I thought what’s the point if all it is going to do is send me on a wild goose chase. Most of the places I go to I know how to get to them and when I didn’t I would get a route printed out on the internet. The last 2 occasions I did that though turned out to be a disaster and I ended up getting horribly lost.

So I decided to bite the bullet and have another go with a Sat Nav system. I have some friends who had already got TomTom’s and they all raved about them so when I saw the TomTom 510 with its widescreen display I decided to get one.

I used it for the first time a couple of days ago when I was going up to an exhibition at Olympia in London and I am so glad I got his now. It really does take the stress of driving away when you don’t know where you are going.

One thing that surprised me was just how easy it was to use. The touch screen menus are so simple that a 5 year old could use it. Just enter in the postcodes and the unit does the rest for you.

So if your someone that constantly gets lost get a TomTom or another Sat Nav unit today. They have improved drastically over the years and have come down to incredibly affordable prices.

Someone asked me if I had managed to get T-Mobile working on My Sony UX180P once I had got it unlocked from Cingular.

I had been using Orange as I was taking advantage of their ?1 a day unlimited Data but that has now come to a close for 3G Data so I am now using my T-Mobile pay as you go card. They only charge ?1 a day for unlimited data too on their pay as you go scheme and the good thing with this is you don’t have to order as an extra and they will simply keep billing you per kb until you have spent £1 and then cap the charge.

I am in the UK so this process with be different in other countries but I set it up to work with the T-Mobile sim card by doing the following:

1: Pretty obvious but you have to unlock the data card from Cingular
2: Put the T-Mobile sim card into the card slot and switch on WWAN.
3: Load the Cingular Connection Manager
4: Go to profiles then click add new profile and choose “Create Custom Profile”
5: Choose service type “Packet”
6: Leave the dial up number as shown on the screen “*99***1#
7: Enter “general.t-mobile.uk” as the Access Point Name
8: Enter “user” as username, password “wap” then click next,
9: Leave all the ip settings alone and click next. Name the profile, I chose “T-Mobile” and finish.

Then on the Cingular Connection Manager main screen click “Connect Using” and choose your T-Mobile profile. If you are in service it should come up with Ready “T-Mobile”, click connect and that’s it.

There may be other ways to do this but this is what worked for me.

Well I think I’ve seen it all now. Petsmobility have launched a Mobile Phone for your Dog!

As ridiculous as this may sound its actually a pretty good idea. Especially if you have a pet with a tendency to run off on its own.

The PetsCell not only allows you to call your dog if it gets lost but also allows anyone who finds it to call you. Coupled with GPS navigation you can also track online where your dog is and setup a Geo-Fence around a certain area and get notified if your dog leaves this specific area.

It could be said as a responsible pet owner you shouldn’t let your dog wander off unattended and I for one would agree with that sentiment but it could be useful if you have taken your dog for a walk off its lead and if it runs off at least you will be able to find them easier enough.

I guess the next step would be to somehow miniaturize this for use with cats. That I could see as being a good use of the technology as cats are always wandering off sometimes for hours on end. At least with one of these you’d know where it was.

Only problem is you’d have to move to America for it to work!

I’ve never felt the need to buy an iPod before as the only music I tend to listen to is what I hear on the radio but now I have had a change of heart.

There are so many great podcasts available which I do try to listen to but find it distracting to listen to these on my PC. So now I’ve decided to order an iPod so I can download the podcasts onto it and hopefully I’ll have more of a chance to listen to them when I’m on the move.

Some of the podcasts I listen to regularly are:

The Best of Chris Moyles
Scott Mills Daily
Webmaster Radio

I’m sure I will be listening to more once my iPod arrives.