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Talk about Polychromatic, if you want your iPod (classic and touch), iPhone, MacBook, cellphone, PS3, PS3 Slim, Xbox, Wii, controllers or several other things custom colored, check out ColorWare. What’s great about this website is that, for most things, you not only have the option of either buying a new one, or sending yours in, but you can see how it will look before you buy it. And the number of parts you can customize is impressive. Example: for the PS3 Slim, you can choose different colors for the top, bottom, logo and up to four controllers (the three extra controllers cost extra.)

The prices for the new products are a little on the high side, probably because they actually have to buy the product themselves, but if your sending in your own, the cost would appear to simply cover shipping. The Macs are still a little high to send in, but they are $1500 computers.

That said, for $150, you can send in your PS3 with a single controller to get a one of a kind system. or for $125 you can send in your iPod Touch.

What’s great about this website, is that is fun to simply play around with the different colors, even if you aren’t looking to buy. Giving a good value and good entertainment at the same time is rare for websites.

I give ColorWare 4 out of 5 rating for now. Once I get a PS3 and the money, I actually do plan on getting it colored by ColorWare, and I will update my review then.

Recently, Microsoft lost a lawsuit for violating a patent for creating custom xml documents. As a result, Microsoft was ordered to halt the sale of MS Word. This leaves OpenOffice Writer and Apple’s Pages as the last big name word processors. I’d suspect that OO will end up taking the top spot in “sales” but, it’s free, so…

Microsoft was also forced to pay the patent owner over $200 million. Finally someone sued a billion company for more than a couple million. Honestly, people, if you’re going to sue a company that makes nearly $100 BILLION dollars a year, ask for more than what they wipe their asses with.

In an even more interesting twist of fate for Microsoft, it would appear, according to rumors, that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Elite might get a $100 knocked off the price by the end of the month, dropping the price to $299, only $50 more than the Wii, and yet, still cheaper.

However, there are also rumors afloat that say that Sony is about to release the PS3 Slim, a 120GB smaller version of the PS3. The Slim is supposedly going to sell for $299. A nearly $200-$300 price drop.

This would pit a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite directly against a 120GB, more reliable, PS3. And since both would be only $50 more than a Wii…the competition is about to enter a whole new level. And I would assume, by the end of the holiday season, we should see just who really is the top system.