Kevin Leary is a Web User Interface Designer and Front End Developer specializing in standards compliant XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Create your own ring tones

What you need

  • Cell phone with MP3 ring-tone support
  • CD or MP3 of the song
  • Method of transferring the ring tone from computer to phone (USB, Bluetooth, e-mail, instant message, etc.)
  • Audacity

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2008 Apple MacBook Pro…

So I finally saved up enough to buy a new MacBook Pro. I’ll be curious to see how this “Multi-Touch” business works. I’ll plan on giving a write-up once she arrives.

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Improving Workflow with Shortcuts

Taking advantage of shortcut keys can save valuable time, speed up your workflow and increase productivity. I’ve put together a list of links to shortcuts and cheat sheets for the various applications and tools I frequently encounter. Please let me know if I’m missing out on anything extraordinary (because I probably am).

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Highlight current Wordpress post

I came across a dilemma recently. I wanted to highlight the Wordpress post that is currently shown in my sidebar menu. I couldn’t find a sound solution for this, so here’s what I came up with. Using JavaScript and jQuery 1.2.3 I was able to highlight the current post in the Wordpress navigation, or sidebar by dynamically adding the class “current” to the anchor tag.

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Safe MailTo’s with jQuery

Here’s a small snippet I created on the job, I thought some people may find it useful. It was built using jQuery version 1.2.3. The purpose of this snippet is reject those nasty spam bots from stealing your (or your clients) email address from mailto: links.

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