129w ago - Today PRiSMiWi from Spanish forum Elotrolado.net (linked above) has shared details on a WIP version of his PS3 Open Manager Theme Editor, followed shortly by a Beta release below.

Download: PS3 Open Manager Theme Editor Installer / PS3 Open Manager Theme Editor Installer (English)

A release is coming soon, and below is a rough translation on the PlayStation 3 homebrew application:

I tried to make a customized theme for my Open Manager, but having to edit the position of the texts a lot of times, without knowing where will they go, and how would the layers be, in which order would they look better, etc... I ended a little bit tired and mad...

So, seeing that people really like to make their own themes, I'd like to make the work of making themes easier, and I'm developing a theme creator/editor... I'd like to introduce you my first addition to the PS3 Scene.

Features:

• Compatible with the last version of Open Manager
• It works with the 8 layers of Open Manager
• It edits the INI from a nice GUI and allows you to see the changes in real time.

It's capable of sorting...

130w ago - Today neox3 has released a new PS3 Open Manager codenamed Th@nkY0u Manager, however, most users who have given it a test run currently report receiving only a black screen.

Download: PS3 Th@nkY0u Manager

To quote: This is a small project I made to make Open Manager a little more "aesthetic."

It is a project based on a base version of "Open Manager", adding various fixes including same "SynaPS3" fix.

Needless to list the features. Test it.

132w ago - Update: KinectMan2 has now posted a video (below) of a non-open source version he did, and Marcan Tweeted he did the same with his open-source libfreenect as well. Below are the videos!

With the recent Kinect release for XBox 360, a bounty has been offered by Adafruit Industries for an open-source Kinect driver.

The challenge found on Adafruit's Web site states the following, to quote:

What do we (all) want?

Open source drivers for this cool USB device, the drivers and/or application can run on any operating system - but completely documented and under an open source license. To demonstrate the driver you must also write an application with one "window" showing video (640 x 480) and one window showing depth. Upload all of this to GitHub.

How get the bounty ($2,000 USD)

Anyone around the world can work on this, including Microsoft Upload your code, examples and documentation to GitHub. First person / group to get RGB out with distance values being used wins, you're smart...

132w ago - Today Scognito has posted a guide on how to setup a build environment for compiling and running PS3 homebrew using the PSL1GHT open-source SDK.

To quote: With the breaking out of PSJailbreak this summer, the homebrew sceene didn't wait so long to appear on PlayStation 3.

So we are finally talking about the possibility to run our own unsigned code, using any of the available dongles (you can even build one yourself).

Before actually start writing our application it is necessary to build our development envirement. For doing this we need a toolchain and a SDK: I'll use ps3chain and PSL1GHT.

The latter one is very young (project started 29-oct-10) and continously mantained, so the are chances that something may not work as you would expect.

Updating git daily, reporting bugs and contributing is appreciated

Prerequisites

First of all we need to set our PS3 dev directory and some system variables, as well as all software needed to build our toolchain.

This guide is written for user with Ubuntu 10.10 32bit,...

134w ago - Similar to LS Cover Manager and other Open Backup Managers based on Jurai2 Mods, Open Manager v2.1D along with several newer revisions HERE are now available along with an Open Copy Install v1.0 and Open Copy Install v1.1 application (with source code) for PS3 JailBreak users from wuepe at Elotrolado.net.

Download: Open Manager v2.1D (Original) / Open Manager v2.1D (OMAN01234)

To quote, roughly translated courtesy of maverick83: With the release of v2.1D, there is an introduction of a new tool, which is Open Copy Install.

The tool is an utility that allows checking games installed on internal/external drive, deleting, copying from one drive...