Comments for Jeff Couturier

Comment on Mute Spotify Ads in OSX Lion by Mark Dillon

Mark Dillon — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:55:00 +0000

Works great! Thank you for compiling all of the info.

Comment on Mute Spotify Ads in OSX Lion by Daan

Daan — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:57:00 +0000

Why so much trouble guys? When I hear the same annoying ad again, I lower my volume to a level I can’t hear the ad anymore. At a certain point, the ad is autopaused by spotify, then goto spotify press play again, and the ad will play further, then when the music starts, up your volume!

grts Daan

Comment on Mute Spotify Ads in OSX Lion by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:36:00 +0000

if anyone is using headphones like me, you just have to change the 2 instances of “Internal Speakers” to “Headphones” like this:

set audiodev to do shell script “~/audiodevice output”

if audiodev = “Headphones” then

do shell script “~/audiodevice output ‘Soundflower (2ch)’”

else

do shell script “~/audiodevice output ‘Headphones’”

end if

Save the file as an application and give it any name you like.
Run the file when the ads come on. Re-run to unmute.

Kudos to Jeff for his awesome script and tutorial. Big Thanks!

Comment on Infinite scroll: use it well, or don’t use it at all by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:50:00 +0000

Nice critique.

I like the solution of a floating DIV as a block for an expandable footer, as well, but I’ve seen that work out poorly. Klout, for instance, got clever and put in a floating header and footer that would relocate to screen top and bottom as you moved about and resized the window. Rendered nice on my Android browser, even, until I started zooming in to work with tiny UI elements. Then they would also zoom and consume about half or two thirds of the screen, depending on how far I zoomed. I’ve also seen the browser just STOP processing the floating DIV relocation requests on many sites, leaving the bar hanging in the middle of the page, usually right over what I want to read/click.

Comment on Infinite scroll: use it well, or don’t use it at all by Hot-Wire

Hot-Wire — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:59:00 +0000

You could put your footer information in a float div that is anchored to the window instead of the page. This works best if it is a small amount of information; that half page of links would be way too much unless you make pop up menus or something with it. (Remember that hover doesn’t work for touch devices.) Otherwise, put that stuff in a sidebar.

Also, consider why your design puts so much information in the footer, which may well be the least accessible part of your page. … Thinking about it, if the footer was just advertising, people would probably like how infinite scroll makes it go away after half a second.

The designers who think people don’t like to click don’t use tablets enough. What we really don’t like? Waiting forever for the page to render, especially if it’s because of a document.write() from an ad on a slow server. Fix that before you worry about us hurting our fingers from clicking too much.

Comment on Ali Ferzat, cartoonist, beaten and hands broken for drawing cartoons by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:59:00 +0000

Man that last cartoon is beautiful. :’-(