Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Reviews

Computer Applications & Hardware Reviews that are related to art & design.

  • Colour Behaviour Study of Japan / True Black on Real Life Physical Paper & on Computer Displays or Screens

    I am now documenting some thoughts about black colour behaviour on Physical Paper & computer displays or screens.

    I was from a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) – Applied Art background, so we had subjects like Illustration, Calligraphy, Typography, Print Media Design, Logo & Symbol Design, Branding & Identity Design.

    We used to design our assignments using Japan Black ink which is very dark in contrast & which creates high contrast reach feeling of black colour tone on white paper.

    So when we print our designs in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, we fill the design with (CMYK) Cyan: 100%, Magenta: 100%, Yellow: 100%, K(Black): 100%, then using only K: 100%. These CMYK values use to create high-contrast Japan Black ink fill on White Paper.

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

    I have been using LinkedIn for the last 6 to 7 years. But lately, I am getting irritated while signing in to LinkedIn, even when trying to read messages, send messages, or post on LinkedIn Groups.

    I will list a few things here explaining why I am saying so.

    The first foremost irritating thing, i.e. code deployed & Implemented
    Whenever I try to sign in to the LinkedIn page, it resets to the public home page or the sign-in page, even if I enter the username with the correct password combination. The page resets again & again without any error message. Asking why? Poor code deployed by LinkedIn itself.

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  • MTNL Unlimited Broadband Internet a Success on India’s Internet Standards but it has few glitches that MTNL Should improve on

    The first Success story of MTNL Broadband is speed. It has excellent & stable Internet with an assured speed of 512kbps. Not Bad…

    Connectivity of MTNL Broadband is excellent I almost had no internet outrages in three months nearly two.

    Upload speed is not wrong for website developers & designers like me.

    However, it has a few issues with Google Websites like Google Analytics, YouTube, and another website hosting provider called MediaTemple (mt).

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  • Funny People Type & Appear Online on Their Profile

    One day, I was exploring adding network suggestions on popular professional networking sites like LinkedIn.

    I came across a profile where a nice female human being stated under the Languages category that she knows ‘Java’ as her (first or Native) Language.

    & It was hard to stop laughing for several minutes.

    The Clever:

    linkedIn-Languages-Clever

    The Fool:

    linkedIn-Languages-Java

    The Dumb One:

    linkedIn-Languages-dumb
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  • Google Adsense Doesn’t Displays Ads on Some post where Unicode or UTF8 based Indian Languages are utilised, I found it why it happens.

    Update: 14th December 2014
    Google AdSense Now supports Websites in Indic Languages like Hindi.
    So, if your website is in Hindi, you should be able to fetch AdSense Ads now.
    See Image below:

    AdSense Now Supports Hindi

    I have a few blogs in English & few others that utilise my mother tongue, i.e. Marathi…

    & It was weird that Ads on my Marathi Blog wasn’t showing Ads at all, All ad slots were appearing blank…

    I even checked the original Adsense ad code back & forth, even rechecked my website’s HTML code, I even revalidated my HTML Code with w3c standards but found no errors, then I reported it to ‘Google Support’ but no use…

    But I found the answers…

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  • 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

  • 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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  • Is Zuckerberg watching us??? Bad Image of Online Social Networking….!!!

    It’s from my experience,

    Sometimes back I posted about my experience of Google’s Social Networking Google+,

    & Suddenly my Facebook Post Disappeared from my profile page…

    What a hell….!!!

    Then I posted it twice…!!!

    & Thrice it disappeared again…!!!

    So I got to know that culprit is Zuckerberg itself…!!!

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  • “You Broadband Aka You Telecom Aka Iqara, A worst Broadband Internet Service” My Review about my Internet Service Provider

    I can say one thing I am using You Broadband Aka You Telecom Aka Iqara for last 2 to 3 years, But I have to say I faced worst problems of internet cut, cable cut, no internet, slow speed internet every twice a week from their service connection to me.

    I never saw the week without any problem or hiccup from You Broadband’s Internet connection.

    Their local service is in hands of brats who don’t know what they are talking they never have ready answer or solution to problem, they use worst language of uneducated type that you say f**k Who appointed you to that position?

    Only good thing about You Broadband is that they have good ‘Call Center’ Support it is what you need to report the problem to them…

    I would say don’t use ‘You Broadband’

    I have decided now I will switch to MTNL Triband now for sure…!!!

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

  • 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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