Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  • Testing Your Website on iPad & iPhone via Macintosh OSX Desktop or Laptop based iOS Simulator

    OK, You have developed website locally or it is deployed on online server, What Ever the case may be…

    But you want the taste your website on iPhone or iPad… & Unfortunately you don’t have access to physically available iPhone or iPad…!!!

    If this is the case that you are on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion & you are ready with Mac App Store at least free ID.

    Here is the way to run your website on your iMac, MacBook Pro or Air, Mac Pro through iOS Simulator…

    iOS Simulator:

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    Here are the Steps to do that:

    1. Visit XCode page on Mac App Store Here
    2. Download
    3. Run ‘Install XCode’ (It’s in Application Folder)
    4. Install XCode
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  • Web Design & Development on Macintosh through OpenSource or Free Apps

    Here are the list tool sets you will need if you want to design & develop website on mac with opensource or free apps. As you may know Mac is it self based on opensource Unix platform.

    So here is the list of Web Design & Development OpenSource Apps available on Mac,

    CMS (Content Management System) or Blogging Platform

    WordPress

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    WordPress is opensource CMS software for Blogging, Even This website is created with WordPress. WordPress has massive support with large amount of plugins to easily integrating Google Analytics, Google Adsens, Feedburner to even having Image slideshow & Image Lightbox

    Web Server

    MAMP

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  • Final Solution If MAMP Apache Server won’t start or doesn’t start at all

    Before switching to Mac OSX Lion 10.7 & MAMP 2.0.2, I was using Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with MAMP 1.9.5

    After Upgrading to Mac OSX Lion 10.7 and MAMP 2.0.1 or 2.0.2, suddenly everything went wrong. The Apache Server doesn’t start.

    For almost the last month, I have been unable to update my website theme offline…

    But when I check the folder called ‘log’ inside MAMP’s folder under applications (/Applications/MAMP/logs)

    I opened the ‘apache_error.log’ Apache Log file, and there was a reason on my iMac why MAMP’s Apache server was not running.

    Error: [Date] [alert] (EAI 8)nodename nor servname provided, or not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of “000-000-000-000.static.broadbandcompanyname”

    So, the Error was related to ‘IPv4’

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  • Marathi Play – ‘Jaswandi’

    Last saturday I saw a marathi Play called ‘Jaswandi’

    Watching the play I got sense that this play is about expressing human love & sexuality as against to uncivilized domesticated animals like cats & dogs…

    I felt Talking cats are like narrator or ‘Sutradhar’ of the play Jaswandi.

    Sarika Nawathe is in the roll of Jaswandi. She has done good justice to the character of her play. I totally liked the play but I felt the ending of the play is quite disturbing… & you walk out of theater with the questions & unease in your mind about main characters of play…

    But everybody should watch this play…!!! & It’s worth watching…!!!

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  • Animation Film Making Notes

    Here is the collection of ‘Animation Film Making Notes’, Notes are collected from Wikipedia, Wikibooks & SIGGRAPH. I found it helpful so sharing it with you all…

    SIGGRAPH Notes on Animation Film Making by John Lasseter & Ollie Johnston

    Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer
    Reference: These notes come from Course 1 at SIGGRAPH 94, “Animation Tricks”.
    This are the Notes by Disney & Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, he is the first animator to work on 3D computer animation, “The Aventures of André and Wally B.,” He is Exucutive Producer & Director of Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Cars, and Cars 2.

    Animation Notes from Ollie Johnston
    Reference: These notes come from Course 1 at SIGGRAPH 94, “Animation Tricks”.
    Ollie Johnston is Animator from Disney, He is one of famous Disney’s Nine Old Men. He Co-Authored with Frank Thomas the Book ‘Disney Animation –  Illusion of Life’. He has documented 12 principles of Animation in the same book.

    Wikipedia Notes on Animation Film Making

    Animation Techniques
    This documents differant Animation Techniques under one page It has great documentation by WiKi

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  • Design Tools Comparison

    Today I decided to compare different design tools or computer applications available in market to just to differentiate them with each other

    Before even talking about Computer Design Applications you can guess what big companies are involved in to developing them, examples are Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, Microsoft

    Sometimes as Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Animator is really hard to understand what tools to choose before even starting a design process but you have to keep in mind that tool are just tools not an design solution that will dictate your design process but it will just help you to do your job done.

    Comparison of Design Tools can be made on following basis:

    1. Price
    2. Ease of Use
    3. Popularity
    4. Type (Raster or Vector or Voxel)
    5. Apps’ Availability over particular Computer Operating Systems
    6. Compatibility with other file format & tools
    7. Features

    Price
    Price of paid apps like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator are around $ 1,000. Paid apps may cost too much to your pocket if you are starting a fresh as a freelancer. But there are other opensource apps may just cost nothing to you pocket & save lot of investment in digital assets like apps

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  • How to write your Design Resume?

    Sometimes I feel every designer should appoint somebody with good writing skills or copywriter to write right & perfect ‘Resume’ matching to his business profile.

    In today’s internet age There are professional networking sites like Linkedin, Job sites like Naukri.com & Monster.com or Even Multinational Companies like Apple, Adobe & Even Facebook & Twitter has their own Job listings available on their site where you can register & upload your resume.

    So chances of Grabbing Job Online are high as far as networking & internet goes…

    I would suggest go for Microsoft Word Document Format for creating your first digital Resume… i.e. ‘Your-Name-Resume.doc’

    You Have to keep following points in mind while writing your Design Resume:

    1. Keep SEO (Search Engine Optimization) intact so that people can search your resume with right keywords
    2. Use Titles
    3. Use Priorities Structure for better Resume
    4. Use Font like Verdana & better Typography with line spacing & character spacing & not using lower point size fonts & use san serif fonts
    5. Don’t Use Images or Watermarks
    6. Don’t Use tables
    7. Spread your Resume only to single page
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  • What is right PC or Mac for Design i.e. Choosing Your Dream Machine to do Designing & less Computing

    Let me help you to buy your personal computer to do design…!!!

    As Apple’s Boilerplate suggest, ‘Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.’

    It all started with Macintosh & Mac Paint…

    But in decade of 90’s Microsoft’s Windows system dominated the User Interface Driven & icon & folder driven computing.

    But When you want to buy a personal computer to do design tasks in your work routine you will want to buy a better computer with great processing power, a large display to occupy big images than to just minimizing & maximizing images, with good internet & networking support, big amount of RAM, Larger capacity hard drive.

    If you go by cost factor attached to buying a personal computer then assembled computer will win the race as computer hardware will cost around $500 & installing a linux operating system will add no cost to the bill. but you have to keep in mind the Adobe doesn’t support Linux operating system so most Adobe Apps like Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash will not work & support Linux.

    Then you will say what about Dell, HP & Sony computers…??? Well don’t they just are another type of Branded Assembled Computer who are using Windows 7 Operating system???

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  • Happy Independence Day…!!! Jai Hind…!!!

    Happy Independence Day to All Indians.

     
    This day we the nation ‘Hindusathan’ got freedom & independence.

     
    Just want to share this link with you people, Our Freedom Fighter Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 to 26 Feb 1966) has web presence & has his written book available to read & download for free. The books are available in Marathi & English languages. (more…)

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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…)

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