If you’ve been keeping an eye on some of the stuff around here recently you might have seen my post about hoping for a Skype WiFi phone sometime soon. Well, on wednesday Skype and Netgear announced it’s in the works.

Quoth the Netgear press release:

The NETGEAR WiFi phone will make mobile Internet telephony a reality for Skype users. Unlike other devices that must connect with a PC, NETGEAR’s Skype WiFi phone will work wherever a consumer is connected to a wireless Internet access point — be that in a home, office, cafe, open public hotspot, or any open municipal wireless access point being deployed worldwide.

I’m glad netgear at least took the time to write about it, because the phone was relegated to a single practically nothing bullet point (”NETGEAR’s Skype Wifi phone”) on the official Skype blog.

Update: More info (and a picture) available from Cnet: Skype, Netgear to launch Wi-Fi phone.

So I read something somewhere the other day about the WiFi phone from Vonage that will let you hop onto any wireless network to use your Vonage account to make calls (like having a cellphone that works on wifi instead of cell networks). And I was thinking earlier that it’d be really nice if Skype would do something similar (all their phones that are available now use a USB connection, I want something that would let me take my skypeIn number with me other places without having to forward it to another number, etc.) and apparently they’re working on it (or were in August) but I haven’t been able to find any more recent information on what’s up with it. I demand slick future-toys now!

If there’s anyone (with a phone that supports it) that hasn’t tried the Google Local for mobile application yet you need to be flogged. It’s all that and a bag of chips, plus pickle and soda.

Hat tip: We Break Stuff

If I can keep my cell phone from dying long enough, I’ll have to give this a try.

First off, I know it doesn’t look like much — but that’s because it was made for mobile devices. What you do see, however, despite its plainness is a really useful tool for browsing the mobile web.

Go ahead and put a URL in the text field on the homepage. Go ahead, any URL. What you get when you hit “Go!” will be a stripped-down version of whatever site you entered, free of styling or images or anything that has the potential to slow down your mobile browsing and prevent you from getting what’s really important to you — the content of the URL you entered.

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Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network. It plays the songs that people want to hear and it transforms car radio into an interactive medium.

Andrea and myself went to visit my family in NY for thanksgiving. Bailey loved meeting everyone and dinner was good, got to see my grandparents while I was there too which was a nice treat. Friday we went down to visit some of my old stomping grounds from high school, had some mediocre mexican for lunch and did a speck of xmas shopping.

The trip back was slow thanks to construction-style traffic in PA, which still ranks as one of the most boring drives in the world, in my book.

Interesting techy side-note for the trip: I was unaware that the Sony Ericsson T610 supports XHTML strict websites. Now I’ll have to add some sort of alternate stylesheet to here for wireless devices.