Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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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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  • Artist’s Updates’ – Apple iMac + Wacom Tablet + Mac AppStore + Free Apps like Autodesk Sketchbook Express or Copic Edition = Solution Just Work’s

    I have just discovered the free Digital Drawing & Painting Apps directly from AppStore…

    Autodesk SketchBook Express or Copic Edition is the Finding…!!!

    Just Started Using it, Got really good results while using it doing freehand drawings with wacom tablet on iMac.

    This AppStore thing is really great for discovering Apps like this under one category.

    I will post results soon….!!! & Looking forward to it…!!!

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

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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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  • Website in Flash? Do You know Steve Jobs?

    Today I visited Indian Fashion Designer’s Website done in Flash..

    It reminded me the year of…

    1. Website loaders who will show progress & people don’t understand what it’s doing actually…
    2. Pages will fly in to showcase content…
    3. Every click will take more time to load new content…
    4. More Time. So Waiting…
    5. More Waiting…
    6. Some More Waiting…
    7. More Waiting…
    8. Waiting…
    9. User Clicks…
    10. Now Browser Hangs…
    11. Browser Still hangs…
    12. Browser Hangs Again..
    13. Hangs…
    14. Hangs…
    15. User try to ‘Force Quit’ the browser
    16. Browser gets screwed up…
    17. OS System shut downs
    18. Computer Restarts…
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  • Types of Private Animation Institutes or Schools in India

    Because of vary few government schools teaching animation in India, Private sector has took over the lead of teaching animation by large margin in India. Situation of Private Animation Teaching Institutes is vary bad… Here are few points I observed while learning animation from few of this institutes by myself…

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  • My Notes about User Experience Design that I learn on My Website’s Design Portfolio Page

    On Day one of my website I had static 3 page website that I made in iWeb almost one year back in year 2010…

    WordPress was my Ver. 02’s website’s CMS & Yes! It’s deployment & decision was successful.

    Art Portfolio was the name of front page almost 10 months back… It had 3 blocks of images that were to facilitate as icons so that people can click over it to perform lightbox style animation that will open bigger image over page & every other content will black out…

    Practically speaking it was just small content only three artworks… & people don’t know what to do with it… there was no message written over it to tell user to click over it to view bigger image… So it was unsuccessful approach of mine to showcase my artwork on my portfolio page.

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  • I have Just Stopped Working for Free…!!! – Mandar Apte

    Today I announce that today onwards I have just stopped working for free for any community or any business or any no profit no loss company…!!! So don’t expect if you say, “it’s an community project so we are expecting you do donation of your work”.

    SO, SORRY…!!!

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  • Apple Developer Website – A Gold Mine of Knowledge

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    Apple Developer Website & Apple Developer on iTunes is really a Gold Mine of Knowledge for Apple Mac OSX Developer, iOS Developer & Web Developer with WebKit.

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  • Asa Balgandharva Ata Na Hone – Show lost in it’s own Paradise

    Yesterday I attended program by The Movie Balgandharva people.

    Kind of Making of Balgandharva talk.

    Whole program started half an hour late.

    The effort put up by all team of at show gave the feeling the program lacks thought process should be put behind for programs… As I have saw film 10 time by now…

    After an hour or saw I felt why I attended this show as It doesn’t give any more information which is already given in the film. I felt more audio & visual of real Balgandharva should be more elaborated on screen than just camera man’s personal feelings.

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  • How iPad’s Design Has Change Holly Bigh’s Life A School Girl from Melbourne

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    While browsing the web I came to this article on online edition of newspaper HeraldSun (You can read same article here).

    I was amazed how new way of making a tablet has helped somebody so small to regain momentum in her life.

    iPad has indeed made a mark in Education field with it’s new user interface or new way of interaction through multi touch screen

    I am yet to buy an iPad or iPhone or iPod Touch but surely buy someday…

    I don’t know when will Indian schools mainly Indian Government school will start using teaching through device like an iPad… & When it will happen someday it will be the revolution for school going children to get more attracted to education & get involve in learning more & get advance with computer use with ultra modern & sophisticated user interface

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