Dick I thought my n810 has an fm radio bc it even has the radio applet. I am not familiar with encoding and ripping and I appreciate all your help and would love any suggestions from you that you think are good apps.

The radio applet is for ROIP (radio over ip)

Here's some information, mainly about repositories, I'm putting together that might help:

Many programs are available at no cost for the N810 (everything mentioned hereafter also applies to the N800 upgraded to OS2008). But they must be installed. The easiest way to install them involves the Application Manager, by default located in the Settings area of your menu of available programs.
The main purpose of the Application Manager is to allow programs to be installed on the N810 by specifying the locations of the files that are needed for installation. These locations are called "repositories."

Open the Application Manager right now and take a look.
You should be looking at the Main View of the Application Manager. You will see the name of your device, and below it three sections: Show Installed Applications, and under the heading of Web Catalog, Browse Installable Applications and Check for Updates. But in some ways even more important on this page is the easily overlooked image immediately to the left of the words Application Manager at the top of your device. Click on that. The most important item on that list is the Tools area -- if you have problems in the future, you might well want to look at Application Catalog or Log. Click on Application Catalog.
You will see the centered word Catalog and below it is a list of repositories. Click on one of them, and you will prominently see the Web address, which is where the repository information is located.

Now we've seen what the Application manager is; let's put that information to use. It stands to reason that having many repositories, or locations out on the Internet where program information is stored, will give us the option of installing many programs.
Not long ago, you would have had to consult lists of repositories and enter them one by one into the Catalog that we were just looking at. If you made a seemingly insugnificant typo, you would fail to install some programs and it might be a long time before you discovered your mistake.
Fortunately, someone came up with a way to automate the process, saving you effort and typos. Go to this site:
http://www.gronmayer.com/it/
Note that on the right side of this initial page, you need to "Select your device OS". If you make the wrong choice, you will find yourself trying to install application that won't work with your OS2008.
Note further that the site warns you not to install repositories that have already been installed on your system.
The easiest, and laziest, way to make sure this doesn't happen is to return to the Application Manager now, Remember the Application Catalog, where we looked at the list of repositories specified? You can easily and quickly delete all of them. This will get rid of any possible mistakes that have already been made. When you have no repositories listed in your Application Catalog, you are ready for the next step. (Note: you can deviate from this procedure, but you may hate yourself in the morning.)
Now that you have deleted all the old repository information, return to the Gronmayer site and look at the Repos for OS 2008 listed. You have a box with the words Install Selected in it, and each repository has a box where you can click to install it.
But if you followed my advice and deleted all repository information from the Application Manager, I suggest that you look over to the right of the Install Selected box to the box with the label Select all repositories. Check it.
This will cause all repositories on the list to be checked. If you didn't delete all the repository information listed in the Application Catalog, you could go through and uncheck all the repositories that you left listed there. The key point is to not have any repositories installed twice.
Now you can click on the Install Selected box, and all the repositories that are checked will be installed on your device. Very quick and very easy!

Now that you have finished adding a bunch of repositories, if you return to Application Manager and look at the Application Catalog, you will see many repositories listed there.
To find out which programs you can add, return to the Main View and click the Browse installable application box.
Then, when you are looking at the Browse Installable applications categories, click All.
You will be looking at all the programs supposedly installable from the repositories you added. But, warning and surprise! Not all the applications listed as installable are installable!
Before you actually click Install for any program, I suggest you click the centered "i" at the center of the bottom of the screen. That gives you some information about the program you have highlighted and adds more information about whether it is really installable. If it is not installable, it will also list an especially interesting fact: what is the problem! This is where you might find the name of a missing library, for instance.
Choose a few programs that look interesting and click Install. Many of them will dump themselves into the Extras program category; others will let you choose an appropriate folder. Try them out!
This concludes the easy guide. Now, on to more advanced subjects...

WOW! geneven that helped ALOT again thank you to everyone without you all I'm sincerely lost

Guys I just plugged in my stereo headphones that came with it and BAM! my FM radio works PERFECT! WOW! I'm learning I'm learning lol

I'm not too familiar ripping DVD's under Windows....doom9.net would be a better resource than I.

Personally, I can't use anything that doesn't at a bare minimum have a podcasting client and a spreadsheet app. Geneven's instructions are without question the best way to get started. There can be some difficulties (gpodder requires python2.5-cairo but doesn't say it does, for example), but those need to be overcome on an individual basis.

At this point, play around. Come here with any questions. The IRC room is good, too (#maemo in freenode).

Woah, community! This is going to be useless in regards to the original post, but you guys rock. I don't know if anyone's actually *tried* the search functionality but it's horrible. Not only that but for his question, he'd have to piece together multiple threads/wikis of varying experience level.

Truly cool to take the time to answer the questions.

n810man: Philosophically, you really need to take on the viewpoint that you accidentally just bought yourself a new computer. It's a pintsized one and underpowered compared to the beast sitting on your desk, but it fits in your pocket and shouldn't dissapoint. If you want to make the most out of your tablet you'll have to learn a few new things but look at it this way. At one point you'd never touched a computer. Sit back and think of all the stuff you've learned over the years without even knowing it.

And that was without forums like this.

Great point Hedge! PC's have come along a way and like nokia says "this is what computers have become!" I will be patient and will stay plugged in to this community and I second that notion you guys sure rock! One major problem I am having is connecting to the internet tethering with my bberry curve. I called t-mobile and they gave me all the proxy settings along with the APN but I can't seem to get an internet connection. Now I ask you this I love this device the more I am learning things however if I cant get on the internet with it other then wifi whats the point of keeping it??? Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something? I too went through the search forums Hedge and there aren't too many helpful topics but you guys certainly are helping WOW! I must say I have never been a part of a community whom is as helpful and professional and knowledgable as you folks!

Best Regards,

Brian

"Professional", hahah (Sorry, I just got images of me typing while wearing boxer shorts as a hat and blaring some Dead Kennedys or something)

I never tried tethering to a Crackberry before, our BES server won't even allow bluetooth connections and it's faster to enforce policy than I am in trying to connect. If that's a company BB you're on be VERY careful... tethered data costs (even in the US) are insane.

HAHA Hedge youre a riot! No BES, I use BIS bc its a personal crackberry