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With a site called Mr Memory card It is pretty obvious that you will be dealing with  a site that has a fair bit to do wtih memory cards!  A Great looking logo that is made up of a Memory card leaves no doubt where you are.

These days nearly everything that we use has a slot for a memory card of some sort.  The obvious one is your Digital Camera.  Even your mobile phone has a slot for a memory card these days to store your pictures and even music.

Mr Memory Card is a site that pulls together and places access to all sorts of memory cards at your fingertips.  Compact Flash, Secure Digital and XD Picture Cards are all available, to name jst a few.

The best range and the best prices is what Mr Memory Card is all about.

No matter what it is you are thinking of buying if you are like me then you will be on the lookout to get it for the best (read cheapest) possible price. You could just keep an eye on your favourite discount retailer and wiat until the Item you want is on Special or you could go and do some searches online for what you are looking for.

Now, recently, I was looking at some digital Cameras and one of the ones in my short list was the Sony Cyber shot DSC-T100.  I managed to find a store with it, but it seemed quite expensive to me so I did some further research.  Shopping .com was one of the sites that came up in the search and it provided not only a list of retailers rated from cheapest to dearest who had the particular item in stock, I could also directly compare things like shipping costs etc.

Not only is Shopping.com a great place to find the best prices on the Digital Camera I was looking at, on the search page it also has links to reviews and the ability for me to leave my own review.

The website itself is all about putting customers in touch with Retailers and it does this quite well.  What I also like about this site is that it is not just targetted to US shoppers and covers the UK, France, Germany and Australia as well. Regardless of where you are in the world, you will be able to find similar items.

I actually found something on the particular page about the Sony Digital Camera quite amusing - there was an advert for energiser batteries. Now in itself this is not funny, but when you consider that this particular camera uses a special Sony battery I had to laugh!

No matter if you are looking for a Digital Camera or anything else, then shopping.com is a worthwhile website to check.

Visit www.shopping.com

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Do you still know someone who doesn’t have a cellphone? How many people do you know that has more than 1? Well, I can answer these questions - First, hardly anyone I know doesn’t have a phone and a lot of people I know have more than 1.

We have all gone thru the hassle of finding the best phone and plan at some stage, and if you live in the UK and are looking for your first or next mobile phone the logical place to start looking is from the comfort of your own home. You can easily compare the plans, check out the latest handsets such as the LG Prada without getting the hassle and hard sell from a “Sales Assistant” - who really don’t often assist. You can easily compare what the different phone companies such as Orange offer and find a plan that suits your budget and lifestyle.

When dealing with someone - especially someone online it is always a good practice to ensure that they have a solid reputation and easy to find contact info. Well, the fact that they have been around for 11 years is a pretty good indicator regarding their reputation, and there is plenty of contact details to be found on the website.  Now, the website, of course the primary function is to be the online store. They provide a “virtual sales Assistant” (who by the way is not pushy) in the form of articles and information on all the products and services that are on offer. The site is easy to read and gives a pretty good description of what is on offer.  With a header and left colum navigation there is plenty of space to read the pages and see what is on offer.

Visit www.mobiles.co.uk

Nearly every webmaster has heard of Joomla - it is an open source CMS or Content Management system. It is a very popular tool that allows webmasters concentrate on providing content on a website rahter than getting bogged down in putting it all together. Now with a lot of people using it, quite often people tend to use one of the default templates or end up paying a small fortune for someone to design them something unique.

Well, it doesn’t have to cost you a fortune to create your own unique joomla template - you just need to know how to. As we siad, you could go out and pay a few hundred to buy a unique template or you can check out the Club TVK Joomla Template Kit. It is an inexpensive step by step toolkit that will show you how to create a great, unique template for your joomla powered website. The advantage of learning how to create Joomla Templates is that you not only get the ability to make your own website unique, but then you could also sell the templates themselves to other people!

The Club TVK website not only offers the Joomla Template Kit for sale, but has a few Free templates available for download as well. I went looking for a forum on their site and couldn’t find one in the navigation. Well, I thought that If I was payiong for something like this then I would like to be able to get help. But all is not lost - I clicked on the “Getting Started” link and it had a link on it to their forum. Well the forum is only available to registered users, which I suppose is a fair enough. I think that they should have added the Forum link to the site navigation to make it easier for users to find.

Visit www.clubtvk.com

Dusty is a really, really old mobile phone who is in need of a bit of bling! So, you can give him a bit of a makeover and then put him into the gallery for everone to vote on. First, you need to go and look at “Dusty Bender” and then go to the Gallery and vote for him - Well, we think he is the best one in the Dusty gallery, but we might be a tad biassed (ya think!) Once you have done voting, have a go and create your own Dusty.

Dusty is sponsored by Your Wireless source which is a store that sells cellphone accessories such as batteries, bluetooth headsets, chargers - and all sorts of other portable devices. But enough of that, lets get back to Dusty. To create your own Dusty is really simple - Just select his hair, eyes, mouth, then threads. Once you are done you can choose to save him to the gallery like we did. Now, you can also send a customised voice message to your friends as well - and as a bonus if you do, they will also get a discount code to use at YourWirelessSource.

Hey, He may be a bit of a novelty and fun, but what is life without fun? - Come on - if you have not voted for “Dusty Bender” in the gallery already now is a good time!

Visit www.yourwirelesssource.com

No, not your feet, but what is under them. I am talking about the floor coverings. As someone who has owned several houses the floor covering on the floor of every house I have bought has to some extent been “undesirable”. Yes, I hate carpet floors! They are nearly impossible to clean, have stains and just downright get smelly and stink the whole house out.

So, my solution in all houses I have owned was to rip up the smelly, stained and worn out carpets and replace them. I have used all sorts of alternative from Lino, tiles, floating wooden flooring and even just prepared, polished and varnished the wonderful wooden floors below. Now, tiles are a great floor that is easy to keep clean, look great, and are much warmer than carpet - BUT it is a lot of hard work laying them. Lino is cheap and fairly easy to lay, but looks vary. Poloshing and painting wooden floors is a lot of hard and dirty work to end up with a nice result. My favourite flooring so far has to be a floating wooden floor.

It was a few years ago that I did the floating floor and in recent times there has been quite a few newer materials used to make this style of floor coverings and one of the most interesting is Bamboo Flooring. It is a material that is really starting to be used more and more over the last few years in all sorts of applications. Some of the advantages of this material is that it not only looks great but it is an environmentally friendly product as well - no need to cut down a rainforest tree to cover your floors.

If, like me, you hate carpets and are considering updating the look and feel of your house then consider Buying Bamboo Flooring to do the job. Now, a bamboo floor will be quite unique as there are a couple of different methods of manufacturing the flooring boards - The Vertical Bamboo Floor planks are made from very narrow strips and have a fairly unform appearance whereas a Horizontal Bamboo floor plank has wider strips and offers quite a variety of patterns.

The Bamboo Flooring website contains a lot more info than I could put together - it has all sorts of information from buying, care and maintenence to the installation. The site is informational in nature and has links to quite a few different manufacturers. It has plenty of pictures demonstrating what the text says and is easy to navigate and use with a top and bottom nav bar on the pages.

Visit www.bambooflooring.biz

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… online that is. Yes, we have looked at a few online shopping sites over the last couple of months, but today we are looking at what is essentially the mall. Well, first of all, we need to understand that all a mall is - it is nothing more than a huge building with a lot of smaller shops inside. So my analogy of an online shopping directory being a mall is right on the mark - it is just a “building” with lots of “shops” in it - regardless of the fact that it is all virtual.

So, what does an electronic commerce mall do? Simple, just like a regular mall it puts Internet stores in the same place so you can wander thru them all - just like walking thru a regular mall. Just like a regular mall it has shops for finding various items - such as Books, health and Pets. You can wander around each category and then visit each store by selecting a category from the main page. You can even put your own store into this “mall” by following the submission guidelines.

As we have discovered, nearly all directories have multiple submission categories - Elib has a basic submission which is free and also a couple of paid options for inclusion. The site itself is nothing special to look at, but it offers something that I have not seen in a directory before - an additional 2 languages being Dutch and Italian. By having a website that is in multiple languages you have the chance to cater for and capture a larger number of potential visitors. Whilst I cannot read either of the additional languages to verify if it is all the same, the layout looks very similar and I can guess the occasional word. Next time I build a website I am definately going to look into how easy or difficult it is to add another language. I think this is a great Idea.

Visit www.elib.org