You should also be able to do this with the component and HDMI cables if your 360 has both. I know I use my HDMI to output video to my TV and the component cable to output to my sound system. This requires some shaving of the connectors to get them both to fit but it works.

Whenever I'm at home, I always have AirDroid running to control my phone from my computer.

This is a really good list, especially for users who are new to Linux or less familiar with using the terminal. Some other tools that should be mentioned are emacs (there's a non-command line version as well) which I think it is far superior to Vi and Vim, gvfs-mount for mounting remote computers as a drive on your…