Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  • My Experience of buying my first iMac from Unicorn Infosolutions Pvt Ltd. I received a secondhand machine for the total price I paid. This is a story of fraud and piracy in bright daylight in Mumbai.

    My Experience of buying my first iMac from Unicorn Infosolutions Pvt Ltd. I received a secondhand machine for the total price I paid. This is a story of fraud and piracy in bright daylight in Mumbai.

    I got a job as a Graphic Designer in a good company in 2007.

    I completed my Final Year Project on Apple Inc. in my previous graduation year.

    So, I was way more familiar with Apple Computers than I required. With a new stream of money, I started receiving money because of the job. I bought my dream computer, a 24-inch iMac.

    Someone from my company told me about Apple Premium Reseller, Unicorn Infosolutions Pvt Ltd, located at Andheri West near Fun Republic Mall.

    The year that I bought iMac was March 2008. I visited their store near Fun Republic Mall. The physical RAM that was coming with the iMac was 2GB. At that time, they told me I must buy more RAM if I wanted 4GB RAM. So I said I will opt for 4GB RAM. They told me they could provide me with pirated apps that were preinstalled and Pro Apple Apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Studio, and Adobe Creative Suite. I said I was not interested. But this was when I sensed something wrong with the purchasing process.

    The Unicorn person told me they would not deliver the Apple iMac to the home I had to carry to my house, which was 20 kilometres away. I said no problem, I will take it myself.

    After using that iMac, I started experiencing issues and feeling cheated by Apple Premium Reseller when I purchased what was supposed to be a new iMac from them.

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  • Essential factors to be considered while choosing UILabel and UITextView to display text for iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps.

    Choosing between UILabel and UITextView starts when you want to display text in your Apple iOS, iPadOS or macOS Catalyst App.

    I have even gone through the process of choosing UILabel or UITextView to display text on my app.

    So, I have made a small numbered list to help you choose the right option…

    Choose UILable to display text:

    1. If the text word count is small in number
    2. If Top Aligning text to the top border is not the requirement
    3. UILable is not tappable interactive, or selectable to the user’s input
    4. if you want to automatically adjust the font size and fit text to the UILabel bounding box layout

    Here is a Sample Code for UILabel:

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  • Show/hide the navigation bar on a particular view without disturbing the navigation bar hierarchy in iOS/iPadOS app.

    Show/hide the navigation bar on a particular view without disturbing the navigation bar hierarchy in iOS/iPadOS app.

    Sometimes, you want to hide the Navigation Bar from a particular view without manually deleting it from Main.storyboard,

    So, I have documented how to do it programmatically instead.

    Step 01:
    Copy the following code to your ViewController’s Swift file’s ‘viewWillAppear’ method for which view you want to hide the Navigation Bar on its load on your iPhone, iPad or Mac’s (Catalyst) app screen.

    override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(true)
self.navigationController?.setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated: true)
}
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  • Programmatically add Fab (Floating Action Button) Button to iPhone, iPad and Mac App.

    When Google released the Material Design Guidelines, they introduced many new design elements, including the Fabeingutton, a Floating Action Button.

    Normally, we see the Fab button in Android Mobile Apps, but many Apple iPhone, iPad, and Mac App Developers have started using it in their designs.

    Here, we will see how to programmatically add the Fab button in your iOS, iPadOS, and macOS app on any view, including UICollectionView or UITableView.

    Step 01: First, declare the UIButton variable in your View Controller

    var fabButton = UIButton()

    Step 02: Add this code to viewDidLoad()

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  • Here is a solution if TP-Link Router is not loading some particular websites

    Here is a solution if TP-Link Router is not loading some particular websites

    If you are having a problem loading or browsing a particular/specific website, then you can follow the steps below to resolve that problem.

    Step 01: Navigate to your TP-Link router’s web interface. i.e. Normally http://192.168.0.1/

    Step 02: Log in to your TP-Link router’s Administration Web Page

    Step 03: Go to > Advance > Network > Internet > Click on Advanced Settings

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  • Why typing Devanagari Alphabets (Marathi, Sanskrit, Hindi) on a personal computer is so difficult? And why typing Devanagari in Latin is so easy and preferred by many?

    Introduction & Background

    I have been planning to write this blog post for many years. I have been facing this issue since I had my first Microsoft Windows Operating System-based computer in 2002. After that, it was partially solved on a Mac in 2008. I faced the issue of Marathi on the web when I had my website mandarapte.com in 2010 and then my community Marathi website chitpavankatta.com in 2012.

    The idea of writing this blog post or writing documentation about why we face the problem of typing Marathi / Sanskrit / Hindi with Devanagari Script on a computer got more critical when some category of journalists or people who started false propaganda to tell the Marathi population at large that Devanagari Script for the Marathi language is no more relevant anymore instead we should abandon Devanagari Script Alphabets and start using Latin Script to write the Marathi Language. These people gave an example of the young generation who are writing, chatting, or texting on their mobile phones using Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. They use Latin script to write Marathi rather than Devanagari script.

    At that time, I attended a few lectures on Devanagari Calligraphy and Typography, where I met an important person like Mr Mukund Gokhale from Pune, who had done extensive work in building Marathi Typewriter with his two or three seniors in his field. He also worked with famous calligraphers and typographers to bring Devanagari onto the computer, i.e. designing popular Devanagari fonts for Computers. At that time, I was working at IITB as a web designer. After that, I met Mukund Gokhale at his Pune home to discuss why Marathi Typing is so tricky and why it is targeted by anti-nationals with no linguistic background to speak about abandoning the Devanagari script. We discussed it at length. He even showed me software he developed with his developer tech support to design Marathi-based digital artworks and designs. It was his initiative to create an alternative solution to Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator that doesn’t support Devanagari Script in 2014/17. And now it’s the year 2021. Because of these long conversations on the phone or when we met each other personally, I even developed the Devanagari Learning app for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

    When this propaganda started by abusing the Marathi language and falsely showcasing its irrelevance in today’s world, I talked with popular Hindu Orators who were tirelessly working to stop it. People like me were middlemen between famous Hindu orators and calligrapher/typographer Mukund Gokhale to share knowledge and know-how and connect the dots.

    So, I am going to write here my observations that I learned while talking with Mukund Gokhale. Some observations are in my capacity as I am myself a designer and developer who wants to talk and design/develop in Marathi.

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  • Completely uninstall Android Studio from Mac.

    Completely uninstall Android Studio from Mac.

    After downloading and installing Android Studio for Mac, I noticed my Mac started heating too quickly with the fan running at full speed, and there was also a performance issue.

    So, I decided to uninstall Android Studio from Mac completely. I used the following command and documented it below if you want to perform the same process for uninstalling Android Studio from your Mac.

    Open Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app and execute the following commands

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  • My Experience with sexism at the workplace

    My Experience with sexism at the workplace

    I was working with one of my old employers. They hired a person to lead or head the design team in their organisation. And I suddenly started facing odd, arrogant and erratic behaviour from the newly hired design head.

    I completed one massive project, which lasted me designing for more than 7/8 months, and then there was no work for any designer in the Mumbai location. So I and another designer were hoping new projects may be in pipeline and will be assigned to us. But a new design head started telling me or complaining about my efficiency and commitment. He even questioned my ability to be a UX Designer…

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  • Remove ‘Extended Attributes’ from macOS files, i.e. ‘Where from’ property details downloaded online.

    Imagine you have downloaded a file from a website or especially a Google Drive shared folder, and when you select the same file on your local Macintosh HD and use the ‘Command + I’ command on your Mac’s Keyboard, what you see is a long list of gibberish URL the file you downloaded from under ‘Where from’ section.

    It looks something like this:

    Now, you may ask how to remove this Where from section gibberish from your file or all files inside the folder. The answer follows these simple steps.

    To remove specific ‘Where from’ attributes from the file:
    Use the ‘xattr’ command with the ‘-d’ flag and then describe the command to delete specific attributes. Here is ‘Where from’.

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  • How to fix Email DNS related Error called ‘550: relay not permitted’.

    How to fix Email DNS related Error called ‘550: relay not permitted’.

    You may encounter this error, ‘550: relay not permitted,’ if your remote email server is misconfigured on your web/email hosting service. You may also encounter this issue when you misconfigured your Cloudflare account’s DNS settings.

    The main symptom is that you cannot receive emails using your email ID.

    So, how do we fix this?

    The solution is simple!

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