Sign up for the Final Fantasy 14 PC Beta

Ricardo Trejo Dec 16, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming

On the eve of Final Fantasy 13's Japanese release, Square Enix has set up an online application for gamers to get into Final Fantasy 14's beta test - hopefully due out 2010 on PS3 and PC. All you need to get a shot at getting into the PC beta is have these two things down:

1. Have a Square Enix ID account (if not then go here)

2. Be 18 years or older. 

And just to clear it up, this is for the PC beta ONLY. PS3 details will be posted as they roll in.

SIGN UP HERE

[SquareEnix via Kotaku]

Canon EOS Rebel XT says NO to gravity

Nick Mahar Dec 16, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gadgets, News

Imagine skydiving with your brand new high end camera - attached to your helmet so you don't have to hold it - and while you're flying down towards the ground, you feel your head and notice it's gone. Whoops, no camera! That apparently happened to a friend of Fred Miranda forum member Calin Leucuta, who calculates the velocity at impact was approximately 100 miles per hour. After searching for about 15 to 20 minutes, the camera was found and guess what, it was still working! The Canon Rebel was still functional despite a crack in the body and slight jerkiness within the lens zoom.

I wouldn't buy it off him but still, it's amazing the camera is in one piece. More pictures and video from the camera are on it's way soon!

[Via Engadget]

-NM

Leaked: Apple tablet caught on video finally

Brandon Davenport Dec 16, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Gadgets, Hardware, News, Videos, breaking

Now before this is marked to be "fake" or "edited with effects" ask yourself, would you picture the Apple Tablet any other way? It looks like it was made by Apple, and the interface looks very realistic in terms of "existing". This device has been vapor-ware ever since its unofficial announcement by bloggers everywhere, but this is the first see-to-believe evidence that the Apple tablet is alive in some shape or form, it's just not on our coffee tables yet. Read more about the tablet.

Podcast EP 25 | Ustream on the iPhone, and Jesus dogs

Now in 1080p - Youtube only

This week we take a in-depth look at what is bugging Nick about these new Chrome extensions, why is he so upset? Then we look at the iPhone Ustream app in action! While using the app, Ricardo finds something in the Mail, and it is freaky awsome!

All the stuff we talk about, after the break!

Use Restoration to Un-Delete files Emptied from the Recycle Bin

Ricardo Trejo Dec 16, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Applications

Earlier in the day I was setting up my brother's PC with a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate. We had backed up all of his data onto a secondary hard drive, so we thought we were all set. I finished up in less than an hour and I went home and took a nap. A good hour into my sleep my frantic brother calls me up and tells me that he's lost a ton of data and he's seriously freaking out. I get up, go to his place and realize he ended up deleting his own stuff while he was copying and pasting back his stuff onto his primary drive. I shook my head and just laughed. 

To remedy the situation I downloaded an executable app called Restoration - it searches for anything you've deleted, even files you've emptied from your Recycle Bin, and gives you the option to bring whatever you want back from the dead; that is unless it's too far gone. 

There are other applications like this out there but Restoration is light-weight, can be loaded up from a USB thumb drive, and most importantly is free.  My only issue with it is that you have to restore each file individually, but it's worth it when it comes to restoring stuff you thought was gone forever.

Download Restoration HERE

Self Destruct the Fuzz's Software to get them off your Case

Ricardo Trejo Dec 16, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us

The feds have tools to dig up your information should you ever do anything, y'know, illegal. COFFEE - an anagram for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor - is a suite of about 150 forensic tools, provided by Microsoft on a USB thumb drive, which is used to collect digital evidence; your history, temporary files, and other sensitive stuff you don't want people looking at - like all that loli hentai stuff you keep in a hidden folder... you sick perv.

Well, fear no more, as a couple of developers have come up with a countermeasure to fight off COFFEE infested PC's. Introducing DECAF - a light weight program that deals with these peering applications by deleting temporary files, disabling USB drives, and even going as far as spoofing MAC addresses. But before you start asking where you can go and get your hands on it, there's something the creators would like to say about their project, whose motives are more idealistic than criminal:

"We want to promote a healthy unrestricted free flow of internet traffic and show why law enforcement should not solely rely on Microsoft to automate their intelligent evidence finding."

The software is out there, somewhere, but it's source code is being withheld to make sure no one uses it for the wrong reasons and do anything, gasp, illegal.

[Wired, TheRegister - Photo by JimForest]

Chris Brown says "Goodbye" to Twitter

Ricardo Trejo Dec 16, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Twitter

Wal-Mart curiously doesn't stock the man's album, so Chris Brown logs into his Twitter and goes off about it. Fans reply and sound off about their own experiences with local stores selling, or not selling, his latest album "Graffiti". All of this coming after his weekend "tirade" - CNN and MSNBC both used the word - on Twitter, saying stuff like:

“im tired of this s***. major stores r blackballing my cd. not stockin the shelves and lying to costumers. what the f*** do i gotta do...”

With no warning, Chris decided to call it quits on the Twitter front earlier this week. Reminds me a bit of Miley Cyrus' send off. No specific reason was given for the shut down of the famous woman beater's twitter account, but he did leave one final tweet:

"I WANNA THANK MY FANS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT. I LOVE YALL. GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

On a side note, I still listen to "Forever" on repeat sometimes. Hey, it's a guilty pleasure The Office started!

[CNN, MSNBC]