I now have XBMC running on my old Xbox. It is pretty cool so far. I now need to set it up to stream media from my MacBook.

To get it installed I had to softmod my Xbox using an exploit in Splinter Cell. I also had to get files to the Xbox, so I soldered a USB connector to an old Xbox controller so I could hook it up to my Mac and put the files on it through Action Replay in Windows XP in VMware Fusion. It really was quite quick to do, and I'm glad I have a use for my old Xbox now.

If you want to do this, Lifehacker has a great step by step guide on how to get everything modded and installed. Just follow it step by step and you will be good to go.

It rocked. But, I have to say, it sure seemed like Bungie left room for a Halo 4.

Ninjawords is simple. It is an online dictionary. But why use it? Because it is very fast. Fast like a ninja.

I just made a few minor site changes. All of my image galleries on my site are now consolidated into one section called "Images". I also moved the location of the image galleries from the root directory to /images, so some of your bookmarks may be broken. I apologize for that inconvenience, and I try my best not to move stuff around very often, if at all.

Those are the changes, I hope the end up making this a better site.

I am now the owner of the Legendary edition of Halo 3. Go check out the gallery of unboxing pics.

Today I had the privilege of actually being able to play around with an iPod Classic for a short amount of time. I must say, the GUI is a lot faster than I had previously heard, and it looks very nice too. Coverflow also looks nice on the Classic as well, I just don't see much use for it other than to show off to people. They are also very thin. The 80GB was at least as thin as, if not thinner than my current 30GB 5.5G iPod.

That's two complaints off of my list. Now Apple needs to stop being greedy and not cripple the video out.

I finally paid off my copy of Halo 3 that I've had pre-ordered for a year. I'm getting the Legendary Edition and looking forward to it. My EB Games is having a mid-night release, it should be somewhat fun. There is supposed to be a band, food, and a Halo 2 tournament.

Two more days baby! Just two more days.

The new iPod's have been cracked to sync with Amarok once again. One down on my list of complaints and two to go.

Please bear with the site I linked to. It is experiencing the Digg effect.

Seriously Apple, what the heck!?

When you announced the new iPods I was quite happy to see the 160GB Classic, the new Nanos with video and the Touch. I was leaning toward a touch, but 16GB is just not enough space for me. For a device with a gorgeous screen for video I would actually want to put a lot of videos on it, and that's pretty hard to do with only 16GB of storage space. I would be happy with 30GB of space on the Touch, that's what my current 5.5G iPod is and that holds all of my music and videos with about 4GB to spare. The Touch needs a hard drive and at least 2GB of flash memory to store the applications and OS on and to load up videos and music to.

Because of the small amount of disk space on the iPod Touch, I was considering getting the 160GB iPod Classic. My plan was to re-rip my library as FLAC and store the FLAC audio on the Classic and keep 256kbps AAC files on my Mac and sync them to my iPod Classic.

I would love to do this, but unfortunately with the reports of the iPod Classics being extremely slow with their new GUIs, that partially turned me off from getting a Classic.

Another thing that somewhat turned me off from the iPod Classic, or any of the new iPods for that matter, is that users can no longer sync their iPods with anything but iTunes. This upset me because I may switch to Linux when KDE4 is released, and as most people know, there is no iTunes for Linux. The one program that does work, or used to, is Amarok. Now I may not be able to sync my iPod under Linux, and that would really, really suck.

The biggest turn off from the Classic and all of the new iPods for me personally is that I can't use the video out on the new iPods unless I purchase Apples $50 cable that has a special chip in it that allows the video out to work. Now, I don't normally use the video out too often, but when I do want to use it with my new iPod (that I am now probably not going to purchase) I don't want to replace a my video out cable and spend $50!

Apple, you really need to get your act together.

I'm back from Hume lake. I had a really awesome time up there just hanging out with friends a getting to know some of the school's staff better.

I also got a sub and an amp installed in my truck. It sounds really nice.

Hey guys (the few of you that read my blog), I'm going to be out of town at Hume Lake with my school from Tuesday morning until Thursday evening. So, if you're wondering why I haven't been updating my blog, that's why.

Vienna, the open source rss reader has just had a major update released today. This update features an entire redesign moving away from the brushed metal look.
Also, Vienna now has the ability to search all of the articles in the reader. Vienna's browser has also been improved upon. When you open new tabs, they automatically size themselves with beautiful animations.

Vienna is my favorite rss reader for OS X, and the best thing about it is that it's open source and free, so if you're looking for a free rss reader for OS X you may want to consider Vienna.

I've added a whole new section to Macish for system monitoring apps, and in that section I have added iStat Menus.

Also, in the Miscellaneous Apps I've added the famous system-wide notification app Growl.

Growl, the system-wide notification system for OS X has now been updated to version 1.1. There are many visual and UI improvements along with several resource usage improvements. Get the latest version of this awesome software, and check out the version history.

Since I've had my MacBook I've been looking for something to keep it from going to sleep when I shut the screen. I had searched high and low and couldn't find a thing that was compatible with the 10.4.

Today my friend introduced me to InsomiaX. It's a simple little app that lets you close the screen of your Mac notebook without it going to sleep.

As soon as I get some free time, I'll put it up in the Macish section, this app is just too handy to not tell you about.

Have you ever accidentally added a word to Firefox's dictionary and found no obvious way to remove it? I have, and I found a pretty easy way to remove words you've added to Firefox's dictionary.

Here's how you do it:

1. Quite Firefox. This causes Firefox to save the dictionary
2. Locate your Firefox profile folder. For OS X users that folder is located at ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/. For Windows XP users, that folder is located at C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows login/user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\. For more information on Firefox's profile folder go to the Firefox Profile Folder page on mozillaZine.
3. Locate the persdict.dat file in your profile folder, and open it with a text editor.
4. Find the words that you want to remove and delete them.
5. When you are done, save the file and start up Firefox. The words you deleted will no longer be in the dictionary.

There you go, that's a realativly simple way to remove added words from Firefox's dictionary. Here's to hoping that Mozilla will make this easier to do with Firefox 3. And I must give credit where credit is due.