Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Articles

  • My Health Journey Continues!


    Read ‘Part 1’ of My Health Journey:


    I have just stopped the sugar intake, which was coming through tea & coffee. I was consuming more than 6 to 7 tea coffee in a day. I was taking two spoons of sugar per cup, but after consulting my nutritionist, I started taking one scoop. But I made up my mind to take no sugar with coffee and use more amount of coffee itself for taste. So for tea, I started taking jaggery / गुळ for sweetness and flavour.

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  • Find the Bundle ID of any app on Mac.

    There are many ways to identify the bundle ID of any macOS app using the Mac itself.

    The following steps will help you identify a Finder app’s bundle ID using the Terminal. Replace the app name written in step 02 with the exact words of your desired app name.

    Step 01:
    Open Terminal on your Mac.

    Step 02:
    Run the following command:

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  • Sharing Video Interview by Aarti Tikoo and Her Story of Hindus Of Kashmir Valley

    After publishing two blog posts about Marathi Brahmans Killing after Gandhi’s Murder. I received many comments on Facebook Groups / Chitpavan Katta page for those people who suffered from these killings of their family members/father/mother/sister/brother or their uncle.

    So I am sharing this video I saw on YouTube about Kashmiri Pandits ethnic cleansing by Pakistan Sponsored Muslim Communities.

    So go through it let us know in the comments what you think relates to Marathi Brahman’s Killing in the Year 1948.

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  • The year 1948, Gandhi’s assassination and its consequence on the Marathi Brahmin family household. A personal experience essay by Prabhakar Apte, Pune.

    Complete Monologue by Prabhakar Apte in Marathi:

    The Limb is one village situated on the bank of the Krishna river. Historically one Barve family, who belonged to the in-law family of first Peshva Balaji Vishvanath. Barve family migrated from Konkan to Limb and built the first ghat on the Krishna river. Thereafter Lakshman Ballal Apte, who was a Sardar of Madhvrao Peshve. He built a very Hugh Lakshmi Narayan mandir on the bank of the Krishna river, and built a big house and also a ghat on the Krishna river. The big house and temple complex was covered by a rampart and four buruj structures on four corners. The third generation of Lakshman Ballal was of four brothers and there was one adopted ranch of Visaji Lakshman, his branch continued to stay in Limb, but our cousin branch represented by Shankar Narahar Apte use to conduct Sangh shakha in limb and he was a close friend of Barve family. The descendant of the Barve family one Narhar Dattatray Barve also continued to stay in Limb. On 30th January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, who happened to be a Marathi Brahmin. However Limb village had 100 Brahmin families, and they were happily living peacefully. Narhar Dattatray was a small boy and while playing near a ‘Pimpal Paar’ he overheard that a message has come from Kolhapur that Brahmins houses should be burnt as revenge for Gandhi’s murder. He reported it to his mother who had arranged a get together of women folk for Haldi Kunku. She did not believe in the report of her child because the Limb atmosphere was calm, but within one hour the houses of Limb Brahmins were set on fire and Brahmins had to take shelter within Satara etc. This is the sad story of Limb where our forefather came and settled 250 years back. Now the debris of Apte houses is near Lakshmi Narayan Temple. In gram panchayat record it is noted as Apte Gadhi and the big house of Shankar Narhar Apte was burnt after Gandhi murder in the year 1948. One archaeologist Anita Agashe excavated the debris of the potter’s settlement.

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  • How to fix and repair anything related to iCloud, App Store, and Mac App Store if not at all working correctly on Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac with just one simple solution!

    After using your Apple Mac, iPhone or iPad for more than 2 to 3 years upgrading the operating system multiple times you may realise after upgrading system some features like iCloud, Mac / App Store App Downloads and Updates, Keychain Sync, Safari Passwords Sync, Contacts Sync are not working across devices.

    Precautions:

    1. If you are on iPhone and iPad first backup your device using Mac. And also backup your iPhone and iPad photos using Apple Photos.

    2. If you are on Mac backup your Mac using TimeMachine

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  • प्राध्यापक प्रभाकर आपटे ह्यांनी त्यांच्या लेखणीतून मांडलेले त्यांच्या लहानपणीचे गांधी हत्ये नंतरचे वास्तव

    Complete Monologue by Prabhakar Apte in Marathi:

    आमचे मूळ गाव लिंब सातारा जिल्हा तेच गाव गजानन मिलचे मालक वेलणकर यांचे. त्यांनी लिंब वर एक पुस्तक लिहिले आहे. त्यांच्या पुस्तकात १०० वर्षापूर्वीचे लिंब हे भरभराटीचे असावे असे दिसते. १९४८ साली ज्या दिवशी लिंब मध्ये जाळपोळ झाली त्या दिवशी आमच्या लक्ष्मी नारायण मंदिरात पूजा करणारे नरहर दत्तात्रय बर्वे हे लहान होते आणि त्यांच्या घरात हळदीकुंकू असल्याने ५० -६० ब्राह्मणां च्या सुवासिनी आलेल्या होत्या, त्यावेळी त्यांचा मुलगा फिरत फिरत पारावर गेला त्यावेळी गावातील काही ब्राह्मण द्वेषी मंडळी जमली होती आणि कोल्हापुराहून आपल्याला सांगावा आला आहे की ब्राह्मणांचि घरे पेटवायची ते ऐकून तो मुलगा धावत आला व त्याने आईला ती बातमी सांगितली. पण त्या बायकांनी तुला काय कळते म्हणून दुर्लक्ष केले आणि तासाभरात बर्व्यांसह १०० ब्राह्मणाची घरे जळून खाक झाली त्यात सरदार आपट्यां चा प्रचंड मोठा वाडा पण जळाला त्यावेळी बर्वे व अभ्यंकर अशी दोन कुटुंबे सोडून बाकी सर्व सातारला पळून गेले. बर्वे यांच्या वाड्याशेजारी विष्णूचे देऊळ आहे ते सुरक्षित राहिल्याने त्याच्या भिंतीला पत्रे लावून बर्व्यांनी आडोसा केला तो अजून तसाच आहे. आपट्यांच्या विष्णू मंदिराला सांगली जिह्यातील सागाव येथे जमीन आहे. तिथे कुलकर्ण्यांचा वाडा आहे, ते कुलकर्णी संघाची शाखा चालवत म्हणून गुंडांनी त्यांचा पाठलाग केला आणि फरशी कुऱ्हाडीने त्यांच्यावर प्राणघातक वार केले. ते जेंव्हा जमिनीवर कोसळले तेंव्हा हा खरच मेला आहे का याची खात्री करण्यासाठी त्यांनी त्यांचा उजवा अंगठा तोडला तरी त्यांनी हूं की चूं केले नाही त्यानंतर ते कसेतरी चालत चालत कोल्हापूरला पोहचले. त्यानंतर एकदा साताऱ्यात संघाची बैठक जिल्हा कार्यवाह अण्णा भोई हे 63 साली घेत होते त्यावेळी संघाच्या स्वयं सेवकांनी त्याग केला पाहिजे असे ते म्हणाले त्यावेळी त्या कुलकर्णींनी तुटका अंगठा दाखवून आणखी काय त्याग करायचा असा प्रश्न विचारला त्यावेळी सर्वजण स्थब्ध झाले. पुढच्याच वर्षी कऱ्हाड जवळील कोले या गावी शाखा चालविणाऱ्या अण्णा भोईंचा संघ कार्यकर्ते म्हणून निर्घृण खून झाला.

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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.

    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.

    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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