All new from Total_Noob: XMB Icon Manager. The video pretty much says it all; check it out:

That’s right… Essentially you can rename existing icons and assign your own function — shutdown, suspend, reboot, restartvsh (useful for HEN users), game, updater, pops, or backup — to whatever icon. It’s too bad you can’t create and inject your own icons, rather than replacing existing ones. Maybe that’s a future release.

Download: XMB Icon Manager

- source: pspgen

The ‘brew known as Project4 just received one hell of an update… Serving as a complete XMB replacement; Open Beta 4 adds more functionality, eliminates many bugs likely experienced in past versions, and features a new super speedy installer—less than 20 seconds now.

Auraomega isn’t clownin’ around. She’s a big one…

• Added a “faded” look to menus.
• Flash3 mounting in read/write mode.
• Added disc0:/ mounting in read mode.
• Split the fonts allowing for separate main fonts and clock fonts.
• Fix background loading some files, this will be used in the next version more.
• Changed the way the album art is displayed, when a song is played with “Album.jpg” the image is placed in the centre of the screen with a black background surrounding it.
• Icons now have a transition effect instead of just appearing they now slide from each other, this can be turned off for a speedup or just to fit more with the theme.
• Added the ability to change CPU and bus speeds via the config, the default is 222 and 111, these can be lowered for normal use if the transition effect on icons is switched off.
• BSoD errors can be bypassed by pressing the 2 shoulder buttons and square, although users do so at their own risk, most of the time errors just stop functions working, but they could lead to some serious errors, use with caution.
• Removed sysDump for this version.
• Added an errorLog dump which dumps the information that appears when a BSoD occurs which means you can post errors even if you don’t have a computer around at the time.
• Added an alternative load menu which can load files in different ways. Current options are:
  • Extension Mode
  • Hex
  • Delete
  • Rename
  • Create Directory
  • Copy File
  • Paste
• Utilized the PSPs OSK.
• Icons can be linked to both folders and files for even faster use of Project4
• Date now added to the “Extended Menu”, along with current folder location.
• A “Message Box” has been added to tell you what mode you are in, and when you have changed modes.
• Extended the filebrowsers file list to now show up to 10 pages, instead of the old 4. If anyone finds this value to low let me know so I can increase it further.
• Volume checking (thanks to sakya for helping with the kernel exports).
• Volume bar.
• Image viewer movement smoother as now uses both frame buffers and culling. This removes a lot of graphical glitches.
• “Extended Menu” now has the ability to change what loading mode ISOs work in, meaning you can load video and music ISOs (this is untested as I do not have any video or music UMDs, feedback on this would be helpful).
• Added a screensaver functions.
• System idle time can be changed for the screensaver, anything 0 or less will disable the screensaver completely.
• Sped up the change from the image viewer to the filebrowser / main menu.

And of course, plenty of bug fixes. Please see Project4’s readme for everything of the utmost importance; it’s encouraged you read that over before installing/using. Enjoy!

Download: Project4 Open Beta 4

- source: darkmessiah.byethost13.com
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