I think I'm decided on the tablet that I am going to get. The one I want is the Bamboo Fun tablet from Wacom. I would like the the Graphire Bluetooth tablet, but I'm not prepared to shell out $250, the $100 for the small Bamboo Fun tablet is right up my alley as far as pricing goes and what I would like as far as features go.

I'm in the market for a graphic tablet to use with Photoshop. There have just been times that it's a pain to do something with a mouse knowing that it would be almost 100 times easier to do it with a tablet. If anyone had any recommendations, lay 'em on me.

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.

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.

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.