Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  • Essential Plugins to have in your every new WordPress installation

    Here are a few essential WordPress plugins that every new website running WordPress should have in their arsenal…

    WordPress Plugin 1
    Akismet
    Akismet comes installed with every new WordPress installation, ‘Akismet filters out your comment and track back spam for you so that you can focus on more important things.’

    WordPress Plugin 2
    FD Feedburner Plugin
    Free plugin to redirect all your comments & RSS feeds to FeedBurner, ‘Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without modifying templates, setting up new hidden feeds, modifying .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. Instead, all existing feeds become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Tell the plugin your Feedburner feed URL, and you’re done.’

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  • Mac OSX Lion 10.7 iChat asks for password again & again

    I use iChat for two accounts of mine, one for GMail & another with Yahoo!

    After some while using ichat I found that iChat annoys you with asking for your respective account password again & again… Even if you have stored the same password in keychain.

    But I have found work around for this problem…

    While holding the ‘Option’ button on keyboard go to Finder’s ‘Menu Bar’ click ‘Go’

    You will see your library folder,

    Delete Cache folder from that Library folder, then after rebooting clear Trash

    Now, Use Disk Utility to Verify & Repair your Macintosh HD’s Disk Permissions…!!!

    Your Problem with iChat will be solved…

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

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  • How to get Inspire to learn to do great animation

    Here are few ideas that I use to get inspire to learn more about animation & do lot more animation in my work time…

    Idea No. 01: Read Blogs & Subscribe to RSS feeds

    1. “How to Learn Animation?” – While Browsing a web & while doing Social Networking
    2. My List of Animation Books an Animator should buy
    3. Animation Film Making Notes
    4. Indian Animator Chetan Sharma’s Blog
    5. Animation Mentor Blog, Animation Tips & Tricks

    Idea No. 02: Watch Movies

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  • Applications takes long time to open on Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 As HDD takes long time to wake up from sleep

    Applications takes long time to open on Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 As HDD takes long time to wake up from sleep.

    I have iMac & 2 External Hard Drives, one for Time Machine Backup which is powered by USB only but my 2nd External Hard drive takes lot of time to wake from sleep as it is powered by external electrical outlet & connected to mac by FireWire 800.

    I found that opening any daily routine applications like iCal, Pages, Keynote or even saving file in Photoshop takes lot of time to finished the job…

    So the solution is in Preferences’ Energy Saver Panel, Just unchecking the ‘Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible’ will prevent any hard drive attached to your mac going to sleep.

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  • Typography & Steve Jobs

    You can get Inspiration from anything, even leaf coming out of broken wood.

    Here is a speech by Steve Jobs at Stanford’s 2005 Commencement.

    Every time I listen same speech again & again I realize it’s nothing but Verbal Typography by Steve Jobs Himself, You get to see & hear verbal full stop, comma, exclamatory mark in his speech. Words chosen for speech is like a brilliant job of copyrighting to inspire & motivate people about their work or Karma, which is brilliant.

    ‘Even Type laughs & whispers in his speech.’

    Steve Jobs’ Speech is just a play in it self, He give speech as somebody with many many years of stage experience will perform in his favorite theater.

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  • Design Inspirations: Getting Inspired…!!! to do design & finally learning from it…!!!

    Today with broadband connection on my iMac & connected to the World Wide Web fearlessly with my own website & design blog… Switching from one website to another, reading blogs, going through Twitts, reading Facebook updates… Sometimes I feel It’s really easy to get inspirations through web if you do it right…

    Not like olden days when you only have to visit art gallery exhibition to see art & get inspired with…

    Here are few links that I find as inspiration to learn & do design…

    Apple Developer
    A website dedicated to Apple Mac, iOS & safari developers. Registration is free & site is loaded with deleopment learning videos & ebook learning resources… So happy Learning…!!!

    Adobe Developer Connection
    Adobe’s website do feature developer resources to develop for their adobe products or just learn to design using thei products like Photoshop, Illustrator etc.
    Adobe Developer connect is do present on iTunes Podcast Directory… You can find it here.

    Adobe TV
    Adobe TV is like adobe’s version of YouTube but all gathered to learn & get inspired about designing & learningthrough their products.

    Animation Mentor Blog
    You may know ‘Animation Mentor’ as an Online Animation Training school for learning Character Animation. But they do featured their own blog which is worth reading & bookmarking. Here is link for ‘Animation Mentor Webinar’. Here is link for ‘Animation Mentor Podcasts’

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  • Mac OSX 10.7 Lion now give full featured Yahoo! Mail in IMAP version

    As with iPhone & iPad… Apple & Yahoo! now give Yahoo! Mail with IMAP on Mac OSX Lion Desktop with Apple’s desktop mail client ‘Apple Mail 5.0’ & up…

    Really It’s finally there where we don’t have to login to yahoo web mail through safari or firefox… Now Yahoo Mail is delivered to your desktop…

    YoooooHooooooo…..!!!! Or Just Yahoo!

    Here is the screenshot:

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  • How to learn to Design & Develop for iOS Devices like iPhone & iPad

    Here are two free ways to learn to design & develop for iOS devices like iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.

    Apple Developer Videos

    I know you definitely know Apple’s Website but there is one website dedicated to developers only called developer.apple.com

    As you may know Apple has ‘World Wide Developer Conference’ i.e. WWDC every year dedicated only to Developers on Apple Platform. Lucky thing is that Apple releases it’s WWDC keynote & learning session videos on web through their own developer site which is mentioned above.

    To access those videos you have to have ‘Apple ID’.

    That means you have to register on ‘Apple Developer Website’.

    Videos are available on web to view or You can download it to your iTunes application.

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    Here is iPhone Development videos on iTunes

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  • Wondering How to give design Interview? Here are few Design Interview Notes that will help you to prepare for the same

    Here are few words about Design Job Interview preparation from my own experiences.

    Here are my two earlier blog post that will allow you to prepare Resume & Portfolio

    1. How to write your Design Resume?
    2. Creating & Choosing Your First Design Portfolio Format & updating it over the years

    Details of Preparation

    • Prepare yourself for interview a day before on interview date
    • Cycle through in your mind what are your capabilities, your professional goal in life etc.
    • Go through your portfolio to see it is in perfect order for presentation
    • Read your resume to see there is no spelling mistakes or something missing from it etc.
    • Preparation can also start with having own domain & personal dedicated blog & portfolio website that showcase your work handsomely.

    Preparing specific job related Resume
    It’s not bad idea to have separate resume for different domains of Design dedicated to each i.e. If you work in this three domain called Web Design, Animation Film Design & Graphic Design then you can prepare three different resumes dedicated to each three domains.

    Preparing specific job related Portfolio
    If you have three types of resumes dedicated three different domains that can also go with three differently designed ‘Portfolio’ dedicated to three separate domain of design. e.g If you are going for post of Web Designer then surely you can show Web Design Portfolio & Web Design Resume to recruiter to tell him you have mastered the web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, ActionScript & even design tools like Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop etc.

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  • How College Drop Outs changed the Design itself

    Just Today (i.e. 25th August 2011) after coming home I read the News through RSS feeds of respective companies…

    The big News was, “Steve Jobs Resigns from Apple’s CEO Position”

    First though come to my mind was, There will be no more Apple Keynote Events Starring Steve Jobs no more breath taking announcements or new product launch… he dominated style called Marketing like Steve Jobs, A Stetment like – ‘It Just Works!’, ‘And there is one more thing’

    So I sat down & made one study about Charisma of these people from silicon Valley called Steve Jobs 7 Bill Gates. So, here is small study,

    A college dropout like Steve jobs has contributed to design industry…

    Steve Jobs – Apple CEO & Founder
    After founding Apple in 1976, A company dedicated to create Personal Computer revolution with Apple 1, Apple 2 & Lisa & then reinventing personal computer with Macintosh at 1984 with Graphical User Interface was milestone for Personal Computing Revolution from which Designing on Computer started & took center stage.

    Here is image of Steve Jobs with First Macintosh

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    After Returning to Apple on 1997 after gap of 17 years, apple’s product line with great Industrial design has evolved immensely with first iMac, iBooks, & Power Books. Today Apple Dominates Personal Computing era with their MacBook Pro, iMac & Mac Pro.

    Today’s iMac Design is so immensely revolutionary that competitors can’t resist or even think beyond design of iMac’s Design

    Here is iMac’s Design:

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