Author: Mandar Apte

In-depth Review of Matrimony Website by Suyog Ranade Vivaha aka Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal

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Here I have written complete in-depth review and analysis of Suyog Ranade Vivaha or Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal Matrimony website that I used for 6 to 7 months that was mainly on WhatsApp groups because of bad user experience on website format. I reported the following issues to them but they were not ready or in the right frame of mind to accept it.

 
So I just unregistered myself from their portal and get out of their WhatsApp groups.

 
Following are the points that I noticed about their matrimony service:

 

  1. No or Failed Business Model. Matrimony section mainly runs on WhatsApp Groups of 250 people. The group is unmanaged sometimes people post their profiles multiple times some peoples even post a political or comic forwards. Because of all members in open WhatsApp group, there is no contact number security or number privacy. Sometimes admins or business owners posts repeated WhatsApp Messages to asking every user to register and pay a fee to use WhatsApp group or website. Admins even warn users they will remove everyone who never pays matrimony section fee which showcases the main point that there is no thought behind Successful Business Model or Revenue Generation.

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  2. No Privacy or Security: Because of the open group with visibility of contact numbers to everyone users are prone to scammers and fake profiles or spam calls

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  3. Suyog Ranade Vivaha had a loss of complete user profile data and even registered accounts data three times while upgrading their website and also transferring the website to their new domain. They had to ask every user individually to reregister for their website again and again. A failed system.

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Here is how to fix if Google Hangout’s camera or microphone not working on Apple Mac’s Safari Browser. This steps will also fix every issue for any website on your mac.

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If you are having trouble while using Google Hangout or any other website that requires microphone and camera access. Then you can use the following steps to enable microphone and camera access to your respective website.

 
For example purposes we choose Google Hangout Website:

 
Step 01: On Apple Safari Browser, First sign in to your Google Hangout using this link – https://hangouts.google.com

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How to Repair Permissions for your Mac’s User Home Folder

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I will explain how to repair your Mac / Macintosh’s Home Folder Permissions, It will fix any annoying repeated Finder, iTunes / Music or any application issues you are having on your Mac.

 
Follow these steps to reset permissions:

 
Step 01: Turn on or restart your Mac and immediately press and hold ‘Command (⌘) R’ to start up from macOS Recovery.

 
Step 02: Enter the firmware password or administrator password if prompted of your Mac.

 
Step 03: When you see the macOS Utilities window, choose Utilities > Terminal from the menu bar.

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How conditional code for and identify device between iOS (iPhone), iPadOS (iPad) & macOS Catalyst (Apple Macintosh)

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If you are developing macOS catalyst app then you may be wondering how to conditionally write code specifically for iOS and iPad OS or macOS 10.15 catalyst app.

 
Here is how to do it.

 
Use below code to declare code specifically written and that will compile only for iOS and iPadOS.

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Here is how to set UINavigation Bar Large Title Text Colour (Foreground Colour) in iOS 11, 12, 13 and above

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Here is how to set UINavigation Bar Large Title Text Colour (Foreground Colour) in iOS 11, 12, 13 and above,

 
Declare Navigation Bar Title Text & Large Title Settings like this in your View Controller’s ViewDidLoad() Method:

 

self.navigationItem.title = "Home"
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
self.navigationController?.navigationItem.largeTitleDisplayMode = .automatic

 
Now write below line inside ViewDidLoad() to get Large Title Foreground colour as White Colour like this:

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Choosing between Cloud Storage And Having Multiple Computers i.e. one at home, second at the office and another for being on the move / Tablet or Mobile.

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So for the last two-three days, I started preparing for User Experience (UX) Professional Certification from a reputed institute.

 
So I have books from them for the course that I attended, then I have notes collected through websites like nngroup.com & usability.gov that I want to chunk information in short notes & collect them for future reference.

 
So the problem is every material that I collected is in physical paper form, or in digital format on my desktop computer but when I am on the move travelling from office to home or to some other place those notes are always unavailable to me.

 
So what is the solution to this problem?

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How to set up a CloudFlare Flexible SSL Certificate within 5 minutes for your WordPress website’s all subdomains & main domain.

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Prerequisite: Please make sure have active CloudFlare account and you have added your WordPress Website to CloudFlare. Also, make sure you are using CloudFlare nameservers for your domain.

 
Step 01: Sign in to your CloudFlare account

 

 
Step 02: Make sure flexible SSL certificate is enabled under the “Crypto” tab for your selected website

 

 

 
Step 03: While you are already signed in to your CloudFlare account go to > My Profile > Scroll down to API Keys and locate Global API Key & copy the same key for further use inside your website.

 

 

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Here is how to do UIImageView Image Inset in Apple iOS App using Xcode

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Here is example if you want to inset UIImageView so that image does not fit edge to edge of the UIImageView

 
Note: Use of latest version of Xcode & Latest version of Swift Programming Language is preferred.

 
Here is step by step procedure to achieve designed result:

 
Step 01: Create Apple iOS Project in Xcode. Add UIImageView to View Controller in Storyboard.

 
Step 02: Now Connect that UIImageView to View Controller Swift File. It will look something like this.

 

@IBOutlet weak var imageView: UIImageView!

 
Step 03: Now add following code in ViewDidLoad Function of your View Controller File.

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Here is how to animate Tab bar tab switch with a CrossDissolve slide transition in UITabBarViewController!

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While searching for answer on web for how to give CurlUp / CrossDissolve / FlipFromRight / FlipFromLeft / CurlDown / FlipFromTop / FlipFromBottom transition effect for UITabBar Tab Switch.

 
I found out this answer but with bug or black screen when you tap on same tab twice i.e. destination and current tab is same.

 
So I solve this issue with my logic and additional if and else statement.

 
So here is final answer without any bug.

 

Step 01: Add this two classes as Super Class to your UITabBarViewController

 

UITabBarController, UITabBarControllerDelegate

 

Step 02: Now add following code to your viewDidLoad Function in your UITabBarViewController

 

self.delegate = self

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Here is how to hide Navigation Bar on Scroll in your Apple iOS App with single line of code!

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Assumption: I assume your have embedded in UINavigationBar in your Apple iOS App inside Storyboard.

 
If you want to mimic Apple Safari iOS App’s behaviour of hiding navigation bar on scroll you can do it in just single line of code without any hassle.

 
You have to add following code in your View Controller’s viewDidAppear function where you have added UINavigationBar in storyboard:

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