@coloredmaps: Yes, yes you are.

Also should look into White Noise Recorder. It just lets you make your own white noise and loop it the way you want it to. No looking for an app to do it perfectly when you can make sure by doing it yourself.

I use it everyday. crickets all the way. I can't hear the start of each loop which makes it okay for my needs.

Just the standard xbox doesn't differentiate between normal universal remotes. So I don't see how this is different from me bringing a Logitech Harmony and pressing the pause button. Plus I can do that on the sly without him/her knowing who is doing the pausing.

Does anybody really touch their 360? The only time I touch mine is to clean underneath it, and when I do that I wipe of my xbox at the same time.

@Eric D: With that list, they've essentially addressed all minor complaints I've ever seen with the current rev. Plus added stuff that's just cool to gamers like touch sensitive buttons and matching accessories. Obviously those aren't necessary but do put on the illusion of completeness.

It's a little too much usually. For some reason Bing's works and doesn't seem to cluttered. I think it has to do with the fact it's not the full screen. That "white space" helps tone down the picture space.

@G-Ram: Unfortunately sounds like a statistically insignificant case.

@jetRink: Yep yep. I wrote a paper on it. There are some downsides, but in most situations in a well seeded environment this would work fairly well. It's easy to get your mind to wrap around the subject as long as you remember that, 1: Not everyone will be watching the video while downloading, and 2: Everyone who does…

Just to add to the uTorrent love, I use the Bittorrent WebUI extension in firefox to automatically load torrents that I want downloaded but I'm using a different computer than the one uTorrent is on. That way I can just use my server for downloading(via uTorrent) and I don't have to worry that my macbook isn't on all…

@DanYHKim: In fact I recommend getting a steel first since when you buy a blade it's probably pretty sharp to begin with. So touching it up until it really needs to be sharpened can prolong both buying time and the "sharpness" of the knife.

Never need it. The only time I use an alarm is when I know that I need to be up for some critical thing. So when that alarm sounds the first thing in my mind is that I really have something to do, not just lay there for a couple more minutes.

This seems to be the same principal as how to soften cookies that haven't gotten a little stiff over time.

Oh how this would work for my situation. Going from hard drive to larger one is easy. Going from a larger one to a smaller one, is considerably more trouble. Especially it the larger one has more than 1 partition(like a recovery partition added by a lot of name brand computers).

@Phoshi: Yep. For that reason I haven't stopped using Winamp. With the Winamp Modern skin(which is one of the ones that come with it), it's small and out of the way at the top of the screen(window shade mode). Even then it still has room to give me a visualization.

@fisheradam: Seconded. My dinovo Mini has been invaluable to me as a htpc keyboard. It's main capability that most other keyboards lack is that it's small and includes a trackpad.

@nolabar10der: I have to gold star MediaMonkey too. It's fantastic for finding and editing errant tags.

@edosan: In your first entertainment industry analogy I would like to make rebuttal to them (and anyone who actually thinks like that). It's that you aren't paying for a movie in the theater. You are paying for a seat in a room during a certain time period that the theater company will just so be happening to be…

@Nearro: You have brought up the very thing I've been telling everyone around me for years.

I've been through this and having these helper applications make it amazingly easy.