A kind of easy way to manage your ever-growing PlayStation download list

With the demise of the PlayStation Store on browsers (sort of), and thus the easy download-queuing of PSDLE, I needed a somewhat easier way of keeping track of my downloads short of making my own giant Google Spreadsheet. So how about this:

Using a Vita and your cell phone (or ideally with a PSTV and a proper capture card recording), make one video for each year of your download list. 

It's important that you're viewing your download list on your Vita because that way you'll know instantly if the content you want to download is in fact Vita-compatible. Games with cross-buy DLC (like the Hatsune Miku games) won't tell you if the content you selected to download is the PS3 version or the Vita version, and on a PS3 you can download both. And because the download list is always ordered the same way, if you're on a PS3 and you want to download the PS3 versions of cross-buy content, you can refer to your Vita download list to see which content can't be downloaded on a Vita, because that's going to be PS3 content.

Getting Suikoden II on your PSP in 2020, and other Media Go notes

This was harder than it should have been.

According to my receipts, I bought Suikoden II on December 9, 2014. For some reason it wasn't in my PSP backups, so I downloaded it on my PS3 to transfer it to my PSP. But the "Copy" option wasn't there. This GameFAQs topic mentions that the ability to copy to PSP was added later... but that's not exactly true, or if it was, it's not anymore. Redownloading it from the PS3 won't help; you have to download directly from the PSP or Vita download list. 

Problem is, while the PSP store and download list work (barely), the PSP's lack of WPA2 support means you're probably not going online anymore, short of camping outside a McDonald's or Walmart for their free, unsecured Wi-Fi. I had to go online with my hacked, firmware-spoofing Vita and scroll all the way down to my December 2014 purchases to download Suikoden II. This is because the PS5 killed the Web browser storefront and therefore PSDLE and hassle-free download. I then opened up VitaShell and transferred Suikoden II (I think in ux0/pspemu) wirelessly via FTP. Once it was on my PC, I copied the GAME and LICENSE folders to my PSP.

More Media Go notes:

Even if you backed up your PSP content with the following folder structure on an external hard drive:

• P:\PlayStation Portable\Media Go\AutoBackup\PSP\Licenses

Your licenses are actually only and always automatically backed up in your C drive Documents folder no matter what: 

• C:\Users\User\Documents\Media Go\AutoBackup\PSP\Licenses (Windows 7)

In other words, your externally backed up License folder has to be continually updated by the real License backup folder in your Documents folder.

Even more Media Go notes:

If Media Go has a backup of a game that you got for free with PlayStation Plus, but you bought that game later and want to backup the non-timed version of the game, you'll want to:

1. Delete the PS Plus version of the game on your PSP and PS3, and Vita
2. Download the game on your PS3 and transfer to your PSP
3. Delete the game from wherever you backed the game up and the license from your C drive Documents folder (and probably your other backup just in case)
4. Start Media Go, verify the games are deleted, then close Media Go
5. Manually copy the game and license from your PSP to your game backup folder and C drive Documents folder (i.e. without Media Go)
6. Open Media Go

If you don't do exactly this, Media Go might overwrite your purchased license with the PS Plus timed license, or still say your game is "Expired" in Media Go even if you have the good license. 

(And yes, I know the npdrm_free plugin means all this license documentation isn't truly necessary, but I like good bookkeeping and I might as well take advantage of the fact that I have legit, activated PSPs)

Weird-ass dream (2020-10-06)

Another math-related nightmare. Although the teacher for some reason was the Japanese-language teacher I really liked...

Weird-ass dream (2020-06-29)

Another "Holy Angels" dream, where I'm still a kid but there's future tech, and me and Chris O wants me to drink with him and I give him the ol' speech about "this better be a damn special occasion if I'm gonna drink for the first time"... and then I get lost looking for Gretchen?

These are people who I wasn't particularly close with but still respected and admired. Was grade school the best time of my life after all?

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: Broadcast order VS DVD order vs iTunes

Work in progress...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain:_No_Reservations

On iTunes:

1. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
2. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
3. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 3
4. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 4
5. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 5
6. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 6
7. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 7
8. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 8
9. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 9
10. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 10
11. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 11
12. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 12
13. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 13
14. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 14
15. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 15
16. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 16
17. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Best of Bourdain, Vol. 1
18. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Best of Bourdain, Vol. 2
19. Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Best of Bourdain, Vol. 3

1. "France: Why the French Don't Suck"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
2. "Iceland: Hello Darkness My Old Friend"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 4
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
3. "New Jersey"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
4. "Vietnam: The Island of Mr. Sang"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 4
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
5. "Malaysia: Into the Jungle"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 3
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
6. "Sicily"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 2
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
7. "Las Vegas"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 2
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
8. "Uzbekistan"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
9. "New Zealand: Down Under the Down Under"
1. DVD: Collection 1, Disc 3
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
10. "Leftovers"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: n/a
11. "Asia Special: China & Japan"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1 (two episodes: "China" "Osaka, Japan"
12. "South Florida"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
13. "Peru"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
14. "Quebec"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
15. "Sweden"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
16. "Puerto Rico"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 1
2. iTunes: delisted; would have been Vol. 2, episode 2
17. "Japan"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
18. "US/Mexico Border"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
19. "India (Rajasthan)"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 2
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
20. "India (Kolkata/Mumbai)"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 2
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
21. "Korea"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 2
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
22. "Indonesia"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 2
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
23. "Decoding Ferran Adria"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: n/a
24. "Anthony Bourdain in Beirut"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
25. "Leftovers 2"
1. DVD: n/a
2. iTunes: n/a
26. "Ireland"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 2
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
27. "Ghana"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 3
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
28. "Pacific Northwest"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 3
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
29. "Namibia"
1. DVD: Collection 2, Disc 3
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
30. "Russia"
1. DVD: Collection 3, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 3
31. "Los Angeles"
1. DVD: Collection 3, Disc 1
2. iTunes: delisted; would have been Vol. 3, episode 9
32. "From Shanghai to Shangri-la"
1. DVD: Collection 3, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 3
33. "New York City"
1. DVD: Collection 3, Disc 1
2. iTunes: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 3

Adding a new row in the middle of a Microsoft Word table was that easy??

Yesterday I spent stupid amounts of time trying to figure out how to add a row in between other rows in a table. I made some AutoHotkey script so that Ctrl+R did a right mouse click and navigated to adding a new row. But that didn't work cleanly and it kept moving the document around, and only after hitting Ctrl+Z twice did it look the way I originally wrote the script.

Thanks to Suzanne S. Barnhill, now I know all I had to do was click outside of the table, to the right of the cell that is above the area where I want the new row to be, and hit Enter.

Things to do immediately with a fresh install of Microsoft Word

• MS WORD How to disable Ctrl+PageDown/up going to next search result
• This way Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown will always neatly jump to each new page break. Useful if you have a monitor in portrait mode.
• How can I change text color via keyboard shortcut in MS word 2010
• I like using Alt+1 as black, Alt+2 as red, and Alt+3 as green.
• Disable smart quotes
• File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options  > AutoFormat As You Type > Replace as you type > uncheck all
• Disable keep ellipses as three dots instead of one character
• File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options > AutoCorrect tab > Replace text as you type > delete the entry (hit period three times)
• Disable double dashes turning back into one
• File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options > AutoCorrect tab > Replace text as you type > uncheck Hyphens (--) with dash (-)
• Disabling track changes completely
• More specifically, the keyboard shortcut to toggle track changes. Because this can really, really mess you up. 
• Disable paste option popup
• These annoying little bastards interfere with my AutoHotkey scripts and I've never, ever needed them.
• File > Options > Advanced > Cut, copy, and paste > uncheck: Show Paste Options button when content is pasted

Now if anyone can tell me how to hit the little X to close out the Ctrl+F search, that would be swell. Currently I have Ctrl+J as an AutoHotkey macro that moves and clicks, but that's not elegant...

Fixing a Pronto TSU 3000, and other resources

• Post 95 (2005-08-19) - First post on a fix
• Post 120 (2005-09-17) - Refrigerator fix?
• Post 134 (2005-10-04) - Cleaning the contacts on the cable and metal strips with a pencil eraser
• Post 142 (2005-10-14) - Spraying elekrospray on contacts
• Post 182 (2006-05-31) - Just pressing on the two plastic connectors works
• Post 203 (2006-07-26) - "If the touchscren is not reponding the ribbon cable lost the contact with the touchscreen panel. If you rub it it maybe work but is it will problaby lost contact again. I notice in my pronto only the second contact was broken (4 contacts). I also notice 3 holes on the board in front of the ribon (these were used in old 3000 to put the IR learn reciver). So I solded an hard wire (from a resistence of an eletric shower) in a way it will mantain pressure on the contact. It´s ugly but Is working for now."
• Post 205 (2006-08-01) - "Guys, try to fold the ribon cable of the touchscreen. This is fixing the problem in some cases."
• Post 210 (2006-08-15) - "CLEAN THE SCREEN - I mean really clean the screen. You need to take off the blue cover and clean the edge of the screen."
• Post 220 (2006-09-04) - "Mine died today. After reading this thread, I found that pressing the blue plastic frame to the right of the "pronto" logo got the screen working again. So I'm expecting that the puncture-the-contacts-with-a-needle trick will resolve this issue until those contacts corrode." (also Post 246)
• Post 222 (2006-09-18) - "Well, after about a year (see my post #134 in this thread), my touchscreen has quit again. I tried cleaning the contacts again on the two side connectors, cleaning the metal strip at the top and bottom of the screen and using contact cleaner. Nothing seemed to work this time with the exception of the tip from fransvdmb about using a needle to prick the four contacts on the top right connector on the screen. That did the trick. Obviously the method Philips is using to connect the ribbon to the screen is inferior."
• Post 230 (2007-02-06) - "It still works after 8 months" / "Do not buy a contact cleaner, but a needle!" / "Puncture with "force" each contact spot 4 times."
• Post 233 (2007-03-31) - "The problem is with the motherboard. There is a chip that makes the layer under the screen to turn fluorescent. After some years of use the chip loses his strenth. I was able to put LED light from Ipaqs int the two 3000s."
• Post 260 (2007-06-26) - "Ok, Here is swhat I did to fix my Pronto. I disassembled the unit. I completely removed the LCD screen, I CAREFULLY removed the black protective tape from the back of the display and with the aid of a microscope and small soldering iron , I reflowed the solder on the flexible circuit conductor. Before I started I looked for fractured solder joints but I could not find any. They had to be there but I was not able to see them. I'll let you know how this works out, but right now the Pronto is working better than it has for sometime. It had been sluggish for a month or so." (But Post 261 says this won't do)
• Post 269 (2007-07-19) - "Updated procedure" / "with a fine sewing needle with a sharp tip. And the screen works fine now. I have now a 12 month experience of successful operation since the repair."
• Post 275 (2007-08-28) - "It seems that over time the surface of this join decays and stabbing the area with a pin disturbs the 2 layers enough to renew the contacts. Chances are this will happen again, but for anyone attempting it, you just need open the case. You can leave the touch screen assembly attached to the main circuit board. The area to prod the flexi is on the top surface of the screen before it turns 90 degrees and disappears down under the screen." 
• Post 277 (2007-08-31) - "You DONT need to desolder the screen and remove it.......its the ONLY ribbon that is glued to the top front of the glass screen....the one that connects to strips running around the touch screen....just take a tiny flat head and push down on each part of the strip where it connects to the glass. Not the ribbon that goes under the glass......its the ribbon that is glued right to the glass at the top right of the screen."
• Post 283 (2007-09-27) - Detailed instructions for taking off the blue/green plastic part, pictures
• Post 288 (2007-10-16) - "Take the screen out of the main board, pull the black plastic covering the contacts on the back of the screen, unsolder the touchscrren ribon, solder 4 wires in the back of the screen, glue the 4 wires in the touchsreen w/ conductive epoxy, paint will not hold."
• Post 296 (2007-11-04) - "I sealed the indentations with CAIG Pro-Gold, just in case corrosion would be a factor later."
• Post 303 (2007-12-06) "Just wanted to say thanks for reminding me of this. Just cured a tsu3000 that was all messed up. Your info reminded me that when i took the unit apart i did notice that on the back of the lcd panel (on my model you can't seperate the lcd part from the circuit board without desoldering 3 points, which i didn't want to mess with) the 4 contact ribbon did seem to be 'seperating' a little from being what appeared to be 2 layers of other material. seems the issue was that the glue that held all 3 layers weakened over time and allowed the touchscreen circuits to not make full contact anymore. I put in a some material between the circuit board and the 3 layeres to compress the 3 layers together and give it pressure and the unit worked perfectly after that. THANKS!"
• Post 318 (2008-08-16) - "You have the touchscreen problem, eventually It will stop working completely. Solution: new touchscreen or replace the ribon for wires using a silver based glue,"
• Post 355 (2011-09-27) - "A few years ago, I had this same problem. I fixed it by removing the touchscreen flexi, soldering 4 mod wires on to the main flexi, then I fixed them onto the touchscreen using epoxy. I then used conductive paint to make a connection between the wires & the silver tracks on the touchscreen."

Other resources:

• Philips Pronto TSU3000 Touchscreen fix - Full Tutorial (Edited) by Jamie Navarro
• Pronto TSU 3000 unresponsive screen fix by Gary Quiring
• Written tutorial Jamie Navarro
• Latest firmware (v3.9.9) and other PC utilities
• Info about CCF and PCF files (you can't convert; you must cut and paste)

Other thoughts: 

I bought mine for $15.24 shipped and I needed to do this fix -- twice, actually, because poking the contacts through the ribbon cable didn't work the first time. 

Right now these remotes are very affordable on eBay, and according to one post, it is worth getting the charger. I didn't, though, and I regret it.