Designers do not produce alot of waste, nor do they manufacture large amounts of goods. But even designers should have a conscious eye on how they impact the environment. How so? By printing greener.

http://hopperpress.com is project I have had the honor of working on in collaboration with All-Star Printing and Longbow Strategic Group. The Hopper Press project will hopefully serve as resource for printeries looking to green their processes, and for designers looking for green presses to run their jobs on. But why?

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So you have created PSP -specific content and have a beautiful PSP -sized content. Now what? How do you stop conventional browsers from viewing and using your PSP website? For example, the WorldVIEW website is for Playstation Portables only. If you visit that page in a regular browser, you will be greeted with a message telling you that the website is for PSPs only. How can you pull this off yourself? Its simple.

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The Sony PSP is a portable gaming device. This cannot be denied. While homebrewed programs open more and more functionality to the PSP, it can never aspire to replace a desktop or laptop computer. It does, however, lower the barrier of entry into mobile content design. As a designer looking for additional skill sets to acquire, the mobile world has always been of interest to me. The strict restraints of a small screen, small file size requirements and the competing mobile standards are all new to a designer used to designing websites and applications for use large monitors. This design primer covers some of the basics of you need to know before designing a PSP compatible website. Note: The following information applies to the web browser bundled in the 2.0 firmware update.

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Sony’s recently updated the operating system (2.0) on the Playstation Portable to include some new features, including an internet browser. How does it work? Is it fast? What featureset does it support? Does it render CSS? Javascript? How does my site look on a PSP? What kind of limitations are there?

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