Scottish developer Malcom Hall has developed WiFiFoFum - an 802.11 network sniffers for Pocket PC handhelds.

We love the idea, but once again are on a Blackberry and therefore out of luck.

If you use a Pocket PC-based PDA, this must be your lucky season. First SKYPE (the greatest free download in the world, period) released a Pocket PC version, and now WiFiFoFum. Where does it end?

All we can say is bah humbug.

We always felt that cell phone games were the next big thing, but it’s interesting to watch them enter the early 90’s era of 3D gaming. Relive the classics, including Wolfenstein 3D.

As id software put it “Maybe it was the fact that people got to blow away Nazis. Maybe it was the sheer challenge of it all. For whatever reason, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny, pioneered the first-person shooter genre and brought its legendary creators, id Software, worldwide notoriety and numerous awards. In fact, The Computer Gaming World Hall of Fame recognized Wolfenstein 3D as helping to shape the overall direction of the computer gaming industry.”

In an interesting move– considering that the entire world is jumping on WiFi, Microsoft announced it was dropping its wireless networking products. The company gave no comment on why.

Hmmmmm…….

Mine’s Bigger Dept: The Internet Archive has a machine called the Petabox which can handle a petabyte or one million gigabytes.

Here are some highlights:

* Low power– 6kWatts per rack, and 60kWatts for the whole system
* High density– 100 Terabytes per rack
* Local computing to process the data– 800 low-end PC’s
* Multi-OS possible, Llinux standard
* Colocation friendly– requires our own rack to get 100TB/rack, or 50TB in a standard rack
* Shipping container friendly– Able to be run in a 20′ by 8′ by 8′ shipping container
* Easy Maintainance– one system administrator per petabyte
* Software to automate mirroring with itself
* Inexpensive design
* Inexpensive storage

A credit card that expires after just one use? Sounds annoying, but for merchants you don’t know, or shady-looking online places, it sure beats getting ripped off. One word of caution, “Online buyers need to be careful of paying for hotels or plane tickets with these one-use numbers, since some merchants require the actual credit card to be presented to claim purchases.”

Don’t buy an SUV yet, but it looks like hybrid cars are no gas-sipping maidens when it comes to fuel efficiency. According to Wired News, “Data from independent product-testing organization Consumer Reports indicates that hybrid cars get less than 60 percent of EPA estimates while navigating city streets. In Consumer Reports’ real-world driving test, the Civic Hybrid averaged 26 mpg in the city, while the Toyota Prius averaged 35 mpg, much less than their respective EPA estimates of 47 and 60 mpg. Hybrid cars performed much closer to EPA estimates in Consumer Reports’ highway tests.”

Blogger (the publishing platform used to build this site) has just re-launched a with a great new look and even easier ways to get info onto your blog with minimal pain and suffering.

Nice look!

PC World has a great piece on the devastation being caused by “Phishing” or spoofing commercial websites by creating a site that looks like eBay for example, but is actually just stealing your identity.

According to their article, “The results suggest that as many as 30 million adults have experienced a phishing attack and that 1.78 million adults could have fallen victim to the scams, Gartner says. Phishing attacks typically begin with e-mail messages purporting to come from established companies such as EBay, Best Buy, Citigroup, and others. Web page links within the e-mail messages direct recipients to Web sites disguised as official company Web pages where the recipient is asked to enter personal information such as their social security number, account number, password, or credit card information.”