It’s in the NY Times so it must be true!? Apparently there is a A Ring Tone circulating on the Internet that adults cannot hear! As people get older, we loose the ability to hear high frequency sounds, so some smart Brits have devised a ring-tone that is generally outside the frequency range of most adults. Think of the possibilities… A young person could know when he or she is recieving a text-message while in class!

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If you’re a blogger and use Firefox, you must download the CoLT extension from Born Geek. The extension adds three items to your contextual menu when you right-click on a link. You can choose to copy the link text, link location or even best the link text and location all wrapped up in a handy anchor tag! This has become my most used extension and has saved me much time!

Here is another good article that describes how to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos in Photoshop CS2. The article offers very good explanations of HDR photography - my latest favourite way to take pictures!

15 Days Of jQuery is a site that will offer 15 days of tutorials on how to use the jQuery JavaScript library. Already on Day 9, some topics so far include:

• Quick and Dirty AJAX with jQuery
• Rounded Corners with Javascript (jQuery)
• Stylesheet Switcheroo
• Safer Contact Forms Without CAPTCHA’s
• Wrap It Up: Lazy Man’s HTML Generation with jQuery
• Quicker Than Window.Onload()

Your new Mac makes an excellent web application development system and a great database to power that web app is MySQL. O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter has an article that will help you with Managing MySQL on Mac OS X. Their coverage includeds installing mySQL then getting a GUI based tool to manage your databases.

Although Joe Hewitt’s Firebug has become my favorite JavaScript debugging tool, I still find SlayerOffice’s Javascript Object Tree Favelet a handy tool. Simply click the favelet to show a list of all the javascript object currently referenced on the page.

If you have developed a web application with a database back-end, you should check out this article titled SQL Injection Attacks by Example. It clearly explains what a SQL injection attack is and shows you how defend against such attacks.

The general public can now get their hands on Windows Vista Beta 2! I haven’t really been too excited with this version given all the slips in shipping dates. I will download this and install it under either the free VMWare Server or Parallels to check out what Microsoft’s new OS has to offer. You will need to sign-in using your Live.com or Passport account to recieve a serial number. German and Japanese versions are also available.

Six Things You Didn’t Know About Linux is a great beginners guide to using the open source Linux operating systems. It answers questions ranging from which distribution you should choose, what desktop to pick, and how to play multimedia files.

Digital Media Minute is 3 years old today. It’s hard to believe I’ve been doing this since June 7th 2003, but what began as way of keeping up-to-date with trends and techniques in the world of web design and development has now become somewhat of a passion!

In three years, DMM has accumulated 2138 posts! Some of the most popular are:

• Character Entity Reference
• Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials
• Uploading Pictures to Flickr from Google’s Picasa
• Setup a Free SFTP Server on Windows
• Installing Ruby on Rails with Fedora Core 4, Lighttpd, and MySQL
• Better JavaScript Debugging in 15 Minutes
• New Firefox Wallpaper, and
• Viewing Browser Cache in Firefox

This blog on average has 4178 average unique page views and it’s RSS feed is consumed by over 900 readers per day. Thank-you to everyone who is a regular visitor here. It’s my pleasure to share my passion with you!