PS3 blogging and surfing: doable, but needs work

The PS3 is a computer

*grabs a tall glass of chocolate milk*

On this momentous day, we are lucky enough to observe people trying out Sony‘s next-gen console to make it work like a normal, everyday computer. The above image from Joystiq may have come from someone’s laptop, but the picture it took is of the PS3 performing functions games consoles aren’t really known to do until now.

Well, it came from the laptop because the picture upload tool they were hoping to use apparently didn’t work on the PS3 browser, among other things. Some of the features that were currently lacking were Java support and an easy way  to keep the pop-ups from… popping up.  Entering text also seemed to be a bit troublesome, so you’ll have to brace yourself for that in the early stages of the PS3’s life.

Yes folks, it may be a momentous time for gaming and browsing the net, but it’s still not perfect just yet. According to their post, they were able to blog, but all the functions of their blogging software weren’t usable. If you can imagine a word processor without copy/paste functions and some semblance of spell-checking, then that would be the PS3 browser’s fault.

On the bright side, you could use Flash on the PS3, as well as open up multiple windows. Getting around the browser using a PS3 controller was actually good too. Perhaps the most interesting selling point of their look at the PS3 browsing experience: hooking up a Microsoft mouse, an IBM keyboard and a Panasonic projector and having them work.

Yeah, it’s not everything we were hoping for in terms of convergent technologies, but it’s a nice start at the very least. Cheers to all gaming fanboys everywhere on this momentous day.

*drinks chocolate milk*

The PS3 is a computer

*grabs a tall glass of chocolate milk*

On this momentous day, we are lucky enough to observe people trying out Sony‘s next-gen console to make it work like a normal, everyday computer. The above image from Joystiq may have come from someone’s laptop, but the picture it took is of the PS3 performing functions games consoles aren’t really known to do until now.

Well, it came from the laptop because the picture upload tool they were hoping to use apparently didn’t work on the PS3 browser, among other things. Some of the features that were currently lacking were Java support and an easy way  to keep the pop-ups from… popping up.  Entering text also seemed to be a bit troublesome, so you’ll have to brace yourself for that in the early stages of the PS3’s life.

Yes folks, it may be a momentous time for gaming and browsing the net, but it’s still not perfect just yet. According to their post, they were able to blog, but all the functions of their blogging software weren’t usable. If you can imagine a word processor without copy/paste functions and some semblance of spell-checking, then that would be the PS3 browser’s fault.

On the bright side, you could use Flash on the PS3, as well as open up multiple windows. Getting around the browser using a PS3 controller was actually good too. Perhaps the most interesting selling point of their look at the PS3 browsing experience: hooking up a Microsoft mouse, an IBM keyboard and a Panasonic projector and having them work.

Yeah, it’s not everything we were hoping for in terms of convergent technologies, but it’s a nice start at the very least. Cheers to all gaming fanboys everywhere on this momentous day.

*drinks chocolate milk*

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