VaporStream is a new product that offers recordless email that disappears after being read. And, it can’t be forwarded, can’t be printed, and can’t be stored. But here’s what I want to know: if you have to go through the trouble of logging in to someone else’s server – and paying to do it – in order to not send a regular email, why wouldn’t you just pick up the phone?

eFax today announced that they are raising their already gouging rates from $12.95 a month to $16.95 a month. But there are alternatives, and there is a way to cancel your eFax service, even though they hide it very well.

A new free service on the web allows you to easily create ebooks to take along on your iPod! You can take pretty much any text, upload it or provide a link to it, press a button, and voila! You get an ebook which can be read on your iPod!

Now this is a fabulous theft and loss insurance for your phone, PDA or laptop! It’s called StuffBak (because it helps you get your stuff back, get it?) and it’s kind of like those microchipping i.d. services for pets, only it’s for your portable electronic devices, such as your laptop, your PDA, and your cell phone! It’s basically loss and theft insurance for your portables! And through a partnership with The Internet Patrol and StuffBak, you can get a 10% discount off their already incredibly reasonable pricing!

We think that you can’t go wrong with the Sidekick hand held Internet email device. For our money, it’s the best handheld Internet email device on the market today.

Hollaback (Holla Back – holler back – get it?) is a blogspot website where women who feel victimized by men complimenting them on the street (and, to be fair, also doing more than complimenting) can post pictures of the men who are complimenting or harrassing them. Here’s the thing: one woman’s harrassment is another woman’s compliment. And the same goes for the harrassment or compliment givers.

The UX-B800SE BroadBandFax machine by Sharp is the first truly Internet-ready fax machine. It’s a true, full-fledged fax machine, but the BroadBand Fax Machine also has an ethernet (network) port. Meaning you can connect it to the Internet. Voila! An Internet fax machine!

A Sidekick 3 by any other name (Danger Sidekick, Sidekick Phone, T-Mobile Sidekick – just not Sidekick III, please!) is the hottest new device to hit the streets. Complete with its own Sidekick 3 backgrounds (wallpaper) and its own Sidekick 3 bluetooth, here is a side by side comparison and review of the T Mobile Sidekick 3 (not the “T-Mobile Sidekick III” because they did away with the Roman numerals).

RssToolbar from Electronic Technologies, Inc. checks all of your favourite blogs, news, and other websites for any newly published articles, and then displays any new headlines in an unobtrusive bar along the top of your browser.

BugMeNot is a service which provides free passwords to sites which require registration to view their free content. If you feel that “it’s a pain in the neck to have to register just to read a story, and who are they, anyways, to demand your email address and demographic information?”, then you are going to love BugMeNot.

Free online fax services are still around, you just have to know where to look for it! You can send faxes over the Internet, to regular fax machines, for free, using the Free FaxZero site!

A new Black Frog anti-spam model, based more than loosely on the defunct Blue Frog service, is being set up over at Okopipi. Will this one succeed? And will it be more ethical? We think that the answer to both is “no”.

Frustration with FreeCycle and FreeCycle moderators has lead to lots of complaints and a discussion of particular moderators who seem to have control issues.

Here is a list of books that we here at the Internet Patrol recommend. In fact, we think so highly of these books, that we will give you a money back guarantee: if you buy any of these books and don’t like them, we’ll personally refund the purchase price!

If you think that Hummers are something, wait until you see the Badonkadonk Land Cruiser Tank, available from – I kid you not – Amazon.