Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  • Bye Bye Adobe & Welcome Pixelmator & OpenSource

    Today I bought Original License for Pixelmator from Mac App Store for Mountain Lion OSX.

    It’s really crazy in India to be a owner of original Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, inDesign all Adobe Products because all of this products cost in real life situation 80,000 INR per licenses & per product.

    So all of purchased of this genuine  Adobe Products costs me 2,50,000 INR or more. So it really sucks to be owner of Photoshop where Mac App like ‘Pielmator’ is available for under 1,000 INR i.e. just for 800 INR (or Rupees).

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  • How Designer look at the Job Interviews

    Here are list of things that one designer sees in company’s job profile before he even thinks to go for interview….

    1. Does Company Has Website?
    2. Does company website has right domain name & extension ethics applied to it?
    3. Does that website really use today’s web standards?
    4. Does company Logo really up to the mark?
    5. Choice of Company’s Color for their Brand
    7. How many other designer are employed?
    8. What is Position & grade?
    9. What Operating System Platform that company uses?
    10. Does they use industry leading softwares?
    11. Does company really understands the design process?
    12. Are other designers employed in company are happy with their work?
    13. Does company has canteen?
    14. What is lunch time?
    15. What are regulation of working late & working overtime?
    16. Can company allow freelance work from other companies?
    17. What is work time?
    18. Does they have shifts?
    19. How & what type of transport is available to commute from home to office?
    20. Does company has free internet?
    21. What are international locations that company is located in?
    22. What are company’s main business?
    23. Exact count of company’s current employees…
    24. Is Saturday & Sunday OFF?
    25. Does company has it’s own transport for their employees?
    26. Does Company has Payroll & Provident Fund Facility?
    27. What past employees are talking about the company?
    28. Does company has their own email server & service?
    29. Does company give frequent salary increments & benefits & incentives?
    30. How tight is security of IT properties?
    31. How many days are allowed to take leave?

    So, here it is, it really explains mind set of designer joining some company…!!!

    & Me no different…!!!

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

  • Selling Products The Apple Way

    There are few things that apple follows that I have noticed while analyzing & watching them over the years.

    If you really want sell & market your product the Apple way then you should read this 50 Points…

    BTW I use iMac & MacBook…

    This are few point that Apple has developed in themselves while selling their own products those are as follows:

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  • My Work experience – Working for self & Working for some other company

    When you working for self, you are in comfort of your own bedroom or den, your personal AC & cooling system your own personal choice of computer, You just work, You can’t remember when you started the work when you want to stop, you have your personal choices & decisions & no Art Director over you to detect you about what to do & how to do….

    But When you are working for some other company in their own environment is disturbing, pathetic, boring & some times you realize you have to run away from this place, you even can’t listen to you choice of songs vary loudly or casually they have their own rue of conduct etc….

    You can’t choose your clients when you are working for some other company, As Being company they have their own choices about color & look so even you can’t argue with them for design decisions…

    So being freelancer it always helps to be one but yes there is financial insecurity & instability about steady & permanent income per month… Sometimes you have lot of work & some time you don’t have for moths…

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  • After creating WordPress subdomain multisite blog Adsense ads on subdomain blog doesn’t get registered & Data in Analytics & Adsense doesn’t match…

    I have been using WordPress CMS for the last year or two & integrated Adsense ads & analytics without any errors or problems.

    But just after creating a WordPress Multi-Blog System with Subdomain, I started facing problems because my pages were not getting registered or Adsense ads clicks were not getting registered, so I was losing money and analytics data count.

    But after a few months, I found the solution; I got my analytics code rectified & all Adsense ads clicks started getting registered & my analytics code started working again,

    A few suggestions before starting: don’t follow idiot blogs that don’t follow Google’s Rules.

    So here are the steps to integrate the WordPress Multi Blog System with Google Analytics & Adsense.

    Step 01
    Check analytics code
    Go to: All Accounts > Account List > Admin > (Your Preferred Account) > Properties > (Your Preferred Website) > Tracking Code > Section Called ‘Website Tracking’ > Go to Advance Tab > Choose ‘One Domain with Multiple Subdomains’

    Now copy that underneath code & paste it to your WordPress theme…

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  • An Appeal through Synopsis by Madhav Ghule about his work to awakening brahmans

    An Awakening Call to Brahmans

    Beware: Danger to the Existence and Challenges to our Self Esteem

    Date: 9th July 2012

    Some of the Anti social elements of non-Brahman community, represented by persons like Purushottam Khedekar, A.H.Salunkhe, Madan Patil, Shreemant Kokate, Dr.Balaji Jadhav, M.M.Deshmukh etc. are nowadays regularly engaged in maligning the image of the Brahman’s. They are publishing Articles and Books, containing malicious, baseless, non-historical, insulting & palpably wrong writings full of hatred. It appears that a big campaign is being run to destroy the Status and Goodwill of the Brahman community. All this is being done under the name of Right of Freedom of Expression.

    To give an idea of the kind of disgusting comments that are made against us, some of them from the book titled “Shivarayanchya Badanamichi Kendre” and other books are quoted below.

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  • Marathi’s play ‘Barrister’ is a story of unfolding the untold.

    I have watched the Marathi Play ‘Barrister’ several times now. I find it difficult to thoroughly understand the character that Actor Shailesh Datar plays ‘Ravsaheb’,

    A story of love,
    A story of brotherhood,
    A tale of truth,

    I called this story ‘Unfolding the Untold’ because it weaves you inside its core where the elder brother follows his father’s footsteps & then the younger brother follows his elder brother & play ends…

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  • Collection of Steve Jobs Interviews at All Things D Conference

    Hi All watch this podcast for all interviews of Steve jobs Interviews at All Things Digital Conference.

    A real treat if you are Steve Jobs follower & you want to know about his strategies & trick he played over the period of time.

    Click here for the link Video Podcast Link

    Steve-Jobs-at-the-All-Things-Digital-Conference

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

  • Essence of Great Animation Film by John Lasseter

    Few excellent interview by John Lasseter on making excellent animation film with right ingredients.

    If you are into Animation Film Designing then you should watch his interviews,

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

  • A real difference of FPS (Frames Per Seconds) & how it affects the quality of Animation

    FPS is Frame Per Second term used in all modern 3D & classical Animation films & Computer Applications Used to Animate them inside Computer Applications like Autodesk Maya, Adobe Flash to say the few,

    I will write from my experience of using high FPS likes of 60 is real smart idea,

    This is no smart guess that 60 FPS animation against 24 FPS animation is certainly more smoother, quicker, faster & refreshing to eye,

    I also got one experience that whenever you animate in 60 FPS animation you get more space or keyframes i.e 60 Keyframes per second to animate than or 24 FPS which are only 24 Keyframes per seconds.

    To just clear the terms, The Term ‘FPS’ is related to human’s vision’s characteristics i.e. Persistence of Vision

    As Wikipedia says about persistence of vision

    Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.

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