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Well, in my search for a phone with decent GPS support, I’ve found the Motorola Q9c. For a change, Sprint has released a phone with an actual GPS receiver in the phone. Most of the phones they claim to have GPS are actually using aGPS. The “a” stands for “assisted” which requires the cell towers to triangulate the receiver’s position and report the location to the phone. The difference with the Q9c is that it is able to report its GPS data through the COM port to applications like Google Maps or Windows Live Search.

While this is great news, it can be a little slow. And the people at Sprint probably figured since the phone can retrieve its GPS data from sattelites, it didn’t need to provide aGPS support (which uses processing power at the cell tower). StarmanDX at sprintusers.com posted a great guide on how to enable aGPS on the Motorola Q9c. By enabling aGPS, the devices is much faster at getting a position lock. (more…)

This is my first post on my new blog. I’d like to spend it talking a little bit about my new site. It takes the idea of the popular BANS (Build-a-niche-store) software and uses Wordpress + various addons to replicate it. The site, which I’ve called “Internet Coin Show” is my first attempt at BANS.The idea was taken from Guy Patterson at Nullamatix.com.

In a nutshell, it involves taking various RSS feeds from eBay (with my CJ.com affiliate ID placed) and using an addon to automatically populate posts in wordpress to various categories based on new posts to the RSS feed.In the 3 weeks it’s been active, internetcoinshow.info is already indexed by google and is receiving organic visitors. The visitors are searching for various terms and keyworks related to coin/bullion collecting. The cool thing is that since the eBay auction titles are already chock-full-o-keywords, keyword optimization is very easy.

Guy’s BANS seems to have produced him already $100 for its first month in existence, strictly from affiliate earnings at Commission Junction. I’ll post more about internetcoinshow.info in the next few weeks.