Join the Google Wave Beta

You can now sign up to be the first 100,000 users to test Google Wave beta. Sign up here.

Just head over to the Google Wave's sign up for updates page, enter in your email address, and select the Enlist me! option (you should be willing to actually report bugs and give feedback if you select this option) and sign up. (It's the same signup-for-notifications page that's been available since Wave was first announced, but Google now officially stated that invites would be sent to these users.)

Yes, let Google take over the way you use your email, oh wait, they already have.

Google Voice + MyFaves = Unlimited Calling?

While driving, I was thinking... what if you could add your google voice account to your myfaves/friends and family (verizon)? You would have unlimited free calls! In theory, this works great, since techinically google voice calls your mobile #, then connects you to the caller. So I did a little googling to see if this topic was ever brought up with Grand Central (the company google bought to turn into Google Voice), and of course, there have been discussions about this already. So after checking out a few sites and this forum, the conclusion is, Tmobile hasn't taken any action yet, but according to the terms of service for MyFaves

*Your five numbers must be US domestic numbers and must not include 411, voicemail, toll-free, 900, calling card, and customers' own numbers; and single numbers allowing access to 500 or more persons.

Your google voice number is your own number, but how would they know? I have not tried this personally, and do not condone others to do so (disclaimer: I am not held responsible for the consequences of this hack). For those that have, does this actually work and has Tmo taken action on anyone? I'm guessing Tmo will crack down on Google Voice numbers in the future somehow by getting a list of all the Google Voice #s and comparing it to people's MyFaves. Only time will tell...

Edit: Just checked in Twitter, it has been done.

I got my Google Voice account, finally!

Google has finally sent me my google voice invite, and I admit this is pretty cool. Besides having my own new personal number for life, I can now manage my incoming calls and voicemails through google voice. The only problem is getting my current contacts to convert to my google voice number, but that will be a long process in the making. For you Google phone owners out there, the market has an app called GV that you can use to interface with your google voice account. You can read here on how to transition to your google voice number or go to google voice to sign up for an account. I love these features so far:

• awesome custom greetings for your contacts
• directing incoming calls to voicemail for contacts you don't want to talk to
• visual voicemail on my g1
  

Dead Fantasy III in HD

It's out people. Monty Oum's Dead Fantasy III in HD @ GameTrailers. It's nothing new, since this was shown a while ago, but you get to enjoy it in HDness. This is the fight between Hitomi and Tifa, after being teleported from episode II. Enjoy!

Edit: Correction, there is some new material, at the very end. Watch it and see!

Video Games | Monty Oum | Dead Fantasy III

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

The Real Cost of Electronics

Companies are willing to take a cut in their products in hopes of sales via other outlets (software, accessories). But some products are just down right ripping us off. iSuppli dissected some of the most popular gadgets out there, and broke it down the price, piece by piece.

Apple iPod Touch (First Generation)

Apple.com

Date: September, 2007
Retail price: $299 (8GB), $399 (16GB)
Cost of components: $147 (8GB), $179 (16GB)

Be a frugal electronics consumer and resist away from products that are just released. They are bound to drop to a more reasonable price.

Why WEP is so unsecure

Everybody who has a home network should already have their encryption set to WPA instead of WEP. Why? Because it is so insecure a 5 year old can crack into it. No I'm not kidding! This WEP network hack tutorial posted on lifehacker is a good reason why you should switch to WPA if you aren't already using it. This is for education purposes only, so don't think about stealing. I have a feeling this may come in handy someday...