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My latest e-commerce project, DigitalMobileShop.com, is now up-and-running. It started as just a test of different shopping cart platforms and backend programming, but I slowly got addicted to getting it up and running. I’ve been busy gathering equipment vendors and suppliers to add to the site and I have a pretty good base going. I think my prices are pretty competitive as well. It is of course a work in progress, while I still try and manage to get all my other work done, but it helps me work through different shopping cart platforms, scripting languages and other business issues that I can then pass on to my other clients. This whole site, from domain purchase to shopping cart installation to test transaction only took about 4 to 5 hours, including loading the products in the database. That gives you an idea of how quickly you can get a site up and running… that is if you have me as your web designer

So if you need any digital computer, wireless or cellular equipment and accessories, swing on over to DigitalMobileShop.com. I also created a special coupon for Jpatrickm.com visitors that will save you 15% off anything in the store. Just use the code: jpatrickm during checkout. Feel free to pass that coupon on to any friends and family as well.

And if there’s something you are looking for that isn’t in the store, just shoot me an email. I can probably find it and you can do some price comparisons. Also let me know if you run into any errors with the site. If you let me know about any problems, I’ll do what I can to make sure you’re taken care of

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Yahoo! just announced the purchase of a little company called Konfabulator (www.konfabulator.com) and they’ve made the latest version free. What is konfabulator you ask? “Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.”

So basically it’s just a little widget that runs on your desktop performing a bunch of semi-useless, but quick none-the-less, tasks. You can learn more and download the application at www.konfabulator.com. You can also browse through the widget gallery.

Afterall, it’s about information and how to waste more time on the internet!

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A friend just pointed this out to me. I have no idea how things like this get discovered but it’s hilarious. I wasn’t sure how long this would work so I grabbed a screen capture of the page. This is an actual screen shot. Nothing was edited. If you go to Google and search on just the word failure, the first search result is a link to the “Biography of President George W. Bush”. The interesting (and funny) thing about this is that the referenced page doesn’t even have the word failure anywhere in the content. I do a lot of search engine optimization and there is no way that page can be first without some insider help. So I guess we know which side the techs at Google are on. I can’t see this staying in their index very long, as Google probably hates this type of publicity. SEOs are going to have a fit because clearly this proves that Google is stuffing their search engine rankings. It’s also not someone paying for the top spot through an Adwords pay-per-click campaign either. Even if it is a joke, it shows that the tech people behind the scenes are putting whatever keywords they want at the top. (click on image for larger version).

Now THAT is funny!

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If you run your own website and are interested in getting better rankings in Google (as most people are) then here is a cool new service that Google recently launched. It’s called Google Sitemaps and bascially allows you to create a sitemap and submit it to them for indexing into their search engine. This is a great way to fast-track the spidering of your site content. As always, Google doesn’t guarantee inclusion of your site or your content, but this is definitely a no brainer on getting your pages looked at. There are a couple of ways to submit a sitemap to Google: their recommended format is XML but you can also submit a text file with a single URL in each line. They also offer a Sitemap Generator script, but you need to be familiar with uploading and executing scripts on your web server before diving into that.

Google is one of the hardest nuts to crack in the search engine world so this is definitely a helpful tool. And as with most Google Beta launches, it’s free.

Learn more at the Google Sitemaps page.
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If you’re still trying to get your head around what this whole RSS craze is, then here is a cool article with a few tips to help you out.

15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away) - Tim Yang’s Geek Blog.

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Via Yahoo! News.

Speakeasy, Inc. has launched a new wireless broadband service for businesses. It uses the new WiMAX technology, which is basically WiFi on a much stronger and wider scale.

WiFi hotspots already saturate Seattle but the problem is you have to be within a few hundred feet line-of-sight to the origin of the signal.

One of the broadcast stations for the new signal is the top of the Space Needle.

I’m not sure what the maximum bandwidth capacity of WiMAX is.

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