Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Open Source

In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product’s design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.

  • Using Google Public DNS for IPv4 & IPv6 to speed up internet browsing, A resource for Web Designers, Developers & Internet Surfers in General

    As Wikipedia explains,

    The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most prominently, it translates easily memorised domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide. By providing a worldwide, distributed keyword-based redirection service, the Domain Name System is an essential component of the functionality of the Internet.

     
    Google’s Public DNS will speed up your computer’s internet connection performance with faster speed for domain name lookup.

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  • How to Enable & Disable Receiving WordPress Admin E Mail Notifications? Here is how?

    I have just received an e-mail notification that my WordPress installation has been automatically upgraded to 3.7.1

    SUBJECT:
    [Your Website Name] Your site has updated to WordPress 3.7.1

    E-MAIL MESSAGE:
    Howdy! Your site at http://yourdomain.com has been updated automatically to WordPress 3.7.1.
    No further action is needed on your part. For more on version 3.7.1, see the About WordPress screen:
    http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/about.php
    If you experience any issues or need support, the volunteers in the WordPress.org support forums may be able to help.
    http://wordpress.org/support/
    The WordPress Team

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  • How to navigate between tabs of modern browsers like Safari, Chrome & Firefox

    I was wondering how to utilise it fully while tab-browsing multiple websites.

    Here is the answer,

    nagigate-browser-tabs-1

    You can see above that I have numerous tabs open in Safari.

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  • How do you put comments in .php, .html, and .css files to declare? Remind third-party developers and designers of the code’s explanation.

    Different ways of putting comments per file type on the World Wide Web exist.

    Comments help the code developer explain quickly to third-party developers, designers, users, or even himself why he used that line of code and what function it performs in that web application.

    So it is convenient to know how to put comments in your files in PHP, CSS & HTML.

    Here is an example of how you will put comments in ‘HTML’ & ‘PHP’ pages (outside of the PHP code) & it will look like this:

    <!-- comment here about what is going on -->

    Comments inside of PHP code look like this:

    <?php the_excerpt(); // Show excerpt and not full post content ?>
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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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  • 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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  • OpenSource Application Revolution in Design

    I am totally liking the opportunities of OpenSource Application designed for Personal Computers to create Art & Design

     
    As there are two main platforms in PC Market. And Those are Macintosh & Windows.

     
    But Art & Design related computer applications have big business bulls like Adobe, Apple, Autodesk (more…)

  • Website in Flash? Do You know Steve Jobs?

    Today I visited Indian Fashion Designer’s Website done in Flash..

    It reminded me the year of…

    1. Website loaders who will show progress & people don’t understand what it’s doing actually…
    2. Pages will fly in to showcase content…
    3. Every click will take more time to load new content…
    4. More Time. So Waiting…
    5. More Waiting…
    6. Some More Waiting…
    7. More Waiting…
    8. Waiting…
    9. User Clicks…
    10. Now Browser Hangs…
    11. Browser Still hangs…
    12. Browser Hangs Again..
    13. Hangs…
    14. Hangs…
    15. User try to ‘Force Quit’ the browser
    16. Browser gets screwed up…
    17. OS System shut downs
    18. Computer Restarts…
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  • Open Source Applications for Artists in Simple Language Free Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup

    Following are the applications that are open source that means free tools available to an artist to built his studio without any monetary investment

    In short, “Open Source Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup…!!!”

    Yes! You have to buy your computer hardware first. You can buy Macintosh, HP & Dell based or Assembled PC based on Windows or Any Linux System. If You already have Computer hardware setup then just go to next step to download the software…

    There is possible learning curve before using this tools but I will list some tutorials sites so that you can learn fast as possible… but there is assurance that following tools will work for you…

    A good news is all open source applications like Inkscape, GIMP supports 64bit processing so you can download relevent version of application as required…

    What I would suggest is subscribing to relevant site’s RSS feeds or News Letters will allow you to Update your self with new technologies & get to know updated versions as they arrive…

    So listing down the tools that you can download & use without any hassles…

    3D Content Creation Tool for Animation, Modeling & Dynamics
    Blender 3D
    A really good 3D Application that will allow you to create, animate & add dynamics to your art works.

    As stated on their website “model – shade – animate – render – composite – interactive 3d, Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.”

    You can subscribe to Blender Nation’s News Healines’ RSS Feed here & Blender Foundation Announcement RSS feed here

    You can visit Blender Underground’s website to download video tutorials here

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  • Hello WordPress!!!

    After Searching & Learning a lot on WordPress.org & other websites I started building on WordPress fundamentals…

    This is my Actual First Post in my Articles blog…!!!

    I decided to express my thoughts here, on subjects related to art & design

    Let’s see how my blogging goes…!!! I Hope it will be helpful for peoples…