Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Apps

Computer Applications

  • Why I left Facebook for good & removed all my Business Facebook pages integration from all of my websites

    Over last 2 years I was using Facebook for good, to just popularise my business via Facebook Pages, Find old friends to whom I am not in touch with or just be in touch with current real friends

    But History of Facebook Founder & Facebook Technology brand Itself forced me away from it to start to leave Facebook for good,

    Here is why…

    1. Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg has personal & professional history of Idea Theft & Intellectual Property theft
    2. Facebook has mysterious behaviour over advertising
    3. Facebook looks fake when you want clear & transparent social network system
    4. I personally can’t trust Facebook & It’s Intelligence & It’s Code & It’s Founder
    5. Facebook Shares are dead investment
    6. I can’t put my business brand in hands of untrustworthy behaviour of Facebook Coding staff who displays my posts on Business Page’s at their own will i.e. they display my post when they want it to show to people
    7. Facebook is untrustworthy
    8. Facebook has multiple fake identities of same person on Facebook friend suggest
    9. Facebook’s User Agreement is Anti User so when ever you post idea on Facebook, Facebook owns your idea & concept because it is stated in their user Agreement which you agreed before signing to Facebook
    10. Facebook seems to be monetised in every area over next coming month just to post as it is now public company
    11. Facebook has history of tracking user without his consent or prior permission
    12. When you post about good of Facebook Rivals on Facebook itself posts get auto deleted or gets vanishes by itself from Facebook as you can’t post about Google Plus on Facebook it reads strange but it’s true
    13. Facebook has fake groups & fake user identities
    14. Facebook has history of stealing content
    15. Deleting your data like images or post from Facebook doesn’t really get deleted from Facebook Servers it gets deleted when Facebook Staffers actually approves to delete your content & data
    16. Facebook Share is dropping in value everyday
    17. One day there will be no existence of Facebook
    18. Mark Zuckerberg imitates Steve Jobs in mannerism, talking & clothing style but he does vary poor job in doing that, I can’t rely on fake personality as Mark than following Steve just for sake of business inspirations
    19. Account hacking or Account Hijacking on Facebook is tremendous
    20. Advertising on Facebook is taking over idea of free social interaction
    21. It seems it’s not you that control your content it’s Facebook that controls your content which is in way fraud & bit of odd
    22. Facebook is another Orkut
    23. Facebook now has sponsored post which are generated through computers’ algorithms i.e post not be humans or friends
    24. Facebook Resets & hijacks your privacy settings at their own will
    25. There is one incident that when Facebook Mail IDs started arriving they (Facebook) hijacked user’s email ID settings to force use of Facebook’s own mail Ids…
    26. It seems character of Facebook as company has flaws & hint of you can’t trust them on their operations
    27. Facebook Ads impersonates you when it is advertise product on your friends profile
    28. It seems Facebook doesn’t generate any more referral traffic to your website through your Facebook page
    29. It’s really ugly activity to manage Facebook pages with impersonating comments & post by fake peoples with fake identities
    30. Read Further Why I removed Facebook Widget Integration with website with First Blog Post: Social Networking Integration in WordPress Websites A Review& Second Blog Post: Updates about Online Social Networking Plugins Integration on Mandar Apte Website
    31. Watch Full Interview of Marke Zukerberg CEO of Facebook where All Privacy Settings Chaos Exposed in this interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg
  • OpenSource GnuCash Accounts Books Keeper Application for Macintosh OSX, A User Experience & User Interface Review

    Introduction to Application
    I was searching for Macintosh OSX Application that can keep my Accounts Books for free & perfectly.
    I found the Mac OSX application called GnuCash, I was excited & happy as it was free & open-source…

    Solution

    • I downloaded the application, Opened the DMG file, Copied GnuCash Application to Mac OSX Application folder,
    • Application Icon was pretty much ordinary with flat colors no 3D or gradients or shadows
    • Worst thing was it was having big & Microsoft Windows like GUI (Graphical User Interface)
    • Button Clicking was not working
    • It had confusing approach for user to where to start from or just how to use it
    • GnuCash is alien Application for family of application of Mac OSX
    • It gave hint that HCI – UX & UI designer of GnuCash never used the mac before
    • GnuCash looses big time even being only open-source application in it’s category
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  • Experiments with Task Management Programs

    For last few days I was experimenting with Task Management Progarams Called Producteev & Things for Mac.

    I was amazed with design & simplicity of Things for Mac The Desktop Client for Mac Platform, It was easy to use & Look & feel was truly Mac only…

    But ‘Things’ lacked the Sync feature between two Mac if you have any…

    So I tried out ‘Producteev’ for Mac, It has web interface & Mac & Windows Desktop Client.

    Producteev for Mac Desktop Client comparing to Mac was badly designed, It was unlike Mac User Interface & Specially Icons… Producteev Mac client once hanged & quit unexpectedly… So it disappointed me too much…!!!

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  • Unsubscribe, Delete, Forget, Relax

    Few day’s ago I deleted all Automated Facebook Messages & Mails sent to my E Mail ID & I also deleted mails related to old Orkut Stuffs….

    It was mess of 1,500 to 2,000 Meassages…. Which was useless from any point of time & relevance…

    First step to relaxation is to unsubscribe from Autogenerated Mailing list from your Facebook Account Settings Then physically deleting old mail junk from your cluttered inbox… & Then looking at the bottom of GMail Stats of growing Unused Gmail Capacity… & Just feeling the peace of mind…

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  • Akismet Works!

    After having my website online as it was designed in iWeb with static website structure &  4 to 5 pages… I was more than happy…!!!

    But after I deployed WordPress as my website’s main CMS (Content Management System), I had my Art Blog, my Art Portfolio & other defined pages belonging to my business & liking… My WordPress powered website gave me the boost in google analytics of 100 to 200% in visits & pageviews… But wordpress triggered another feature of website interaction i.e. blog comments.

    I was receiving around 100 to 150 comments monthly, sadly all were SPAM & It was frustrating…

    But then I realized that I have Akismet installed on my website with valid API key but in deactivation mode for that time being…

    So I found answer & realize that how spam free comments can be…!!! so I activated the plugin that just detects spam & delete it at first instance… no further looking needed on those issues anymore…!!!

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  • Twitter for Mac: Sluggish, Buggiest twitter ever

    For all this long time I was using Tweetie for Mac as it was Freeware i.e. It has free license to use…

    But after switching to Twitter for Mac, I am really having bad experience of Twitter for Mac from day one with 1 dot release…

    New Twitter for Mac Application is really buggy, boring & really sluggish…

    Reasons for that are as follows

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