Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Articles

  • How to find ‘Default Gateway’ of your Macintosh running OSX?

    If you want to set up an internet or network and find your Macintosh computer’s default gateway, here is how to do so.

    You have to setup Default Gateway for you Mac….

    Step 01: Go to Preferences, Apple Menu at Top Left > System Preferences

    Step 02: Click on Network

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  • How to take (PNG Image) Screenshot of your iPad, iPhone & iPod touch’s current screen? Here is how…!!!

    Choose which screen you want to capture, such as an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Any iOS device will capture a screenshot of your display or screen in .png image format, which will be stored in your Photos app library.

    Reference Image:

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    Step: 01
    Hold down the On / Off Switch

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  • LinkedIn A Professional Networking tool Unprofessionally Designed & Developed…! Asking Why? Read.

    I have been using LinkedIn for the last 6 to 7 years. But lately, I am getting irritated while signing in to LinkedIn, even when trying to read messages, send messages, or post on LinkedIn Groups.

    I will list a few things here explaining why I am saying so.

    The first foremost irritating thing, i.e. code deployed & Implemented
    Whenever I try to sign in to the LinkedIn page, it resets to the public home page or the sign-in page, even if I enter the username with the correct password combination. The page resets again & again without any error message. Asking why? Poor code deployed by LinkedIn itself.

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  • Designed in India & Designed in USA, UK & rest of The World, What’s the difference???

    I was going through the Dribbble jobs page, and almost 175 jobs were posted. Nearly 160 of them were from the USA, 10 were from the UK and Europe, and 3 were from locations posted ‘anywhere’, but nothing was posted from Indian or even Asian locations.

    What’s wrong with India? Has it forgotten about running Design-Directed Companies, or do they just love working for US and UK companies?

    The actual terrible situation here in Mumbai.

    The government says a person can live on 20 Cents, or 12 INR, daily, including lunch and dinner.

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  • Pages not working after installing or activating WordPress Multisite i.e WP MU

    Here is the solution to this problem: when you activate wp mu on your single domain, i.e. you add a subdomain through WordPress MultiSite, suddenly your pages are not showing up, and it is through the ‘404 Not Found’ Error…

    404 Error File Not Found

    First thing you have to do is navigate to:

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  • In-App Purchase, How & Why Apple Developer Community Is Doing It Wrong & What Is Best for Users to Remove Confusion & hassle from Their Mind Before Opting in for additional functionality.

    After the invention of the ‘App Store’ by Apple Inc. for their products like the iPhone & iPad & later Macintosh, the Apple Developer community exploded with a new market of .99 cents apps where users can find them very easily & securely in one single location, i.e. App Store or Mac App Store.

    One feature that the App Store has for users & and, importantly, for Developers is in-app Purchases.

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    But here is what is expected & not expected by users from developers & makers of Apps.

    Here is an example of what the developer thinks & what was the actual main reason for in-app purchases by Apple itself.

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  • MTNL Unlimited Broadband Internet a Success on India’s Internet Standards but it has few glitches that MTNL Should improve on

    The first Success story of MTNL Broadband is speed. It has excellent & stable Internet with an assured speed of 512kbps. Not Bad…

    Connectivity of MTNL Broadband is excellent I almost had no internet outrages in three months nearly two.

    Upload speed is not wrong for website developers & designers like me.

    However, it has a few issues with Google Websites like Google Analytics, YouTube, and another website hosting provider called MediaTemple (mt).

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  • How do I get an E-mail whenever someone enters or submits the Google Forms? Here is how to do it!

    I hope you have already designed your own questionnaire in Google Drive using Google Forms and Google Sheets. I assume you have linked your Spreadsheet to your Google form to collect submitted answers from people.

    So, to generate mail or notification through mail, you have to do the following.

    Step 01
    Navigate to Spreadsheet, which is connected to your Google Forms in your Google account.

    Step 02
    Click on ‘Tools’ in Toolbar, Click on ‘Notification Rules’

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  • Search Engine Optimisation for Title Tag & How it works & How it is crawled by Google, A lesson learned from my own portfolio website

    Here is what I learned from Google’s Web Crawling algorithm over the years,

    For the last three to two years, I have used ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’ as my title tag for my personal design portfolio website’s homepage, i.e. ‘Page Name | Website Name’. This is nothing more than to explain to people that they can get a complete insight into the website by just looking at the title on Google’s search result page.

    But for the last few days, I got this result when I searched my name on Google. Yes, I was listed first when I searched for a name, i.e mandar apte,

    But the result was something like this: ‘Mandar Apte: Design Portfolio’ instead of my curated title ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’. It seems Google altered my website homepage’s title tag on their search results. I was amassed, wondering why this should happen, and then I contacted Google support for the same.

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    & I got this answer from them…

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  • How to Delete & Deactivate Apple ID, Here is the Answer

    It is a general assumption that you can’t delete your Apple ID.

    Even if you send support or help requests to the Apple Support team, they will say that…

    But here is a way out of this goof-up.

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    First step is to gather all required information to varify your account in one place..

    First is Your ‘Username’
    Note it down

    Second is Your ‘Security Question’s Answer’
    Note it down, too…

    The third is to be ready to log in with your account

    Under the Security tab, you have the ‘Generate Pin’ tab. You will need to click this tab to generate a pin to share with your Apple iTunes Support Team expert, which will help him access your account and confirm your identity.

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