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What is a suitable tool for UI/UX Work: Adobe Photoshop / XD / Sketch / Figma

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As far as I can remember, I have used Photoshop from version two. So I have used Photoshop for almost twenty years, less or more.

I have been using the Sketch app for four years. And just now, because of team recommendations, I have to switch to Figma.

The most problematic point about Photoshop or XD is Adobe’s pricing model. Adobe forces you to buy all Creative Cloud apps whether you choose them or not. In India, Adobe CC costs INR 45,000/- plus taxes.

The best thing about the Sketch app is its pricing model, i.e. Annual Subscription, which costs you INR 7,500/- for a year, and after it ends, you use the same app as long as you want without buying another subscription. So yes, you will not get updates, but you have an app to work with.

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Uber Cabs Invoice Outstanding Payment Alert, A Technical Glitch or Accounting Error

Mandar Apte Apple, Apple iOS, Apps, Art & Design, India / Bharat / Hindusthan, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Personal Experience, Reviews, User Experience Design Leave a comment

I just travelled from Mumbai to Thane using Uber cabs. They rounded my bill before tax by 46 Paise. My trip was a cash trip.

My final cost of the trip after taxes applied was 160.05 INR.

But when I completed my trip I got notification from the Uber app that I have not paid 5 paise out of 160.05 INR using cash.

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Why food you order online platform like Swiggy is more expensive than eating in the same hotel you ordered from?

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I have been wondering about this for a long time,

When I eat Bhel Puri for 35/- rupee at Hotel ‘A’ but I order the same Bhel Puri from same hotel ‘A’ through Swiggy is shown as 50/- rupee at MRP price.

Why these discrepancies? Even I saw Swiggy’s user base repeatedly asking them the same question on Twitter.

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

Mandar Apte Apps, Art & Design, India / Bharat / Hindusthan, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Reviews, User Experience Design, Web Design Leave a comment

I have written a complete in-depth review and analysis of the Suyog Ranade Vivaha or Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal Matrimony website that I used for 6 to 7 months, 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 exited their WhatsApp groups.

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

Point 01: No or Failed Business Model. The matrimony section mainly runs on WhatsApp Groups of 250 people. The group is unmanaged sometimes; people post their profiles multiple times. Some people even post political or comic forwards. Because all members are in an open WhatsApp group, there is no contact number security or number privacy. Sometimes admins or business owners post repeated WhatsApp Messages asking every user to register and pay a fee to use WhatsApp groups or websites. Admins even warn users they will remove everyone who never pays the matrimony section fee, which showcases the main point that there is no thought behind Successful Business Model or Revenue Generation.

Point 02: 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

Point 03: Suyog Ranade Vivaha lost complete user profile data and even registered account data three times while upgrading their website and transferring the website to their new domain. They had to ask every user individually to reregister for their website repeatedly—a failed system.

Point 04: Website owners had to change their Web Domain as a similar web domain was used by its competitor with a slight name difference. It shows no thought about branding or company structure. Because of this exact domain by competitors, Suyog Ranade Vivavha’s Matrimony users were registering wrongly to competitors’ websites, thinking to competitors that they were the original company. This shows a loss of identity and company branding. And a loss of revenue.

Point 05: Even you can see in the screenshots website structure is broken and faulty with buggy coding and development.

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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.

Mandar Apte Apps, Art & Design, Hardware, Reviews, Tutorials, User Experience Design Leave a comment

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.

Mandar Apte Apps, Cloudflare, Reviews, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress Leave a comment

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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Why you should turn off My Photo Stream on all of your Apple iCloud Enabled Devices including MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Mandar Apte Apple, Apple iCloud, Apple iOS, Apple iPadOS, Apple macOS, Apps, Reviews Leave a comment

I have just turned off Apple iCloud’s Photos App related feature called ‘My Photo Stream’.

 
Apple iCloud Photos Settings on Macintosh OSX Desktop & Laptop

 

 
Apple iCloud Photos Settings on iOS, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

 

 
My Photo Stream suppose to help every Apple user with multiple Mobile / Handheld devices like iPhone / iPad & iPod touch to collects all photos taken from camera & collects under one folder called ‘My Photo Stream’ in the cloud on Apple Servers.

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Clashes between Cookies for Comments WordPress Plugin Versus Google Adsense

Mandar Apte Apps, Google, Google AdSense, Reviews, WordPress Leave a comment

After reading few security guidelines on popular blogs & WordPress TV I realised I have to optimise my WordPress installation for less comments.

 
So I installed Cookies for Comments WordPress Plugin.

 
First Thing that I saw that,

 
Whitespace (Strip) below Footer… So I fixed that with CSS

 
with this code:

 

img[alt="css.php"] {
	position: absolute;
	clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); /* IE6, IE7 */
	clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
	height:0;  /* Chrome */
}

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

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I admit I am using LinkedIn for almost last 6 to 7 Years. But lately I am getting irritated while signing in to LinkedIn even when trying to read messages or sending messages or trying to posting on LinkedIn Groups.

 
I will list down few things here which will explain why I am saying so.

 
First foremost irritating thing i.e. Code deployed & Implemented
Whenever I try to sign in to LinkedIn page resets to public home page or to sign in page even if I enter write username with right password combination.
Page resets again & again without any error message. Asking why? Poor code deployed by LinkedIn itself.

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