Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Reviews

Computer Applications & Hardware Reviews that are related to art & design.

  • Marathi’s play ‘Barrister’ is a story of unfolding the untold.

    I have watched the Marathi Play ‘Barrister’ several times now. I find it difficult to thoroughly understand the character that Actor Shailesh Datar plays ‘Ravsaheb’,

    A story of love,
    A story of brotherhood,
    A tale of truth,

    I called this story ‘Unfolding the Untold’ because it weaves you inside its core where the elder brother follows his father’s footsteps & then the younger brother follows his elder brother & play ends…

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  • Is Zuckerberg watching us??? Bad Image of Online Social Networking….!!!

    It’s from my experience,

    Sometimes back I posted about my experience of Google’s Social Networking Google+,

    & Suddenly my Facebook Post Disappeared from my profile page…

    What a hell….!!!

    Then I posted it twice…!!!

    & Thrice it disappeared again…!!!

    So I got to know that culprit is Zuckerberg itself…!!!

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  • “You Broadband Aka You Telecom Aka Iqara, A worst Broadband Internet Service” My Review about my Internet Service Provider

    I can say one thing I am using You Broadband Aka You Telecom Aka Iqara for last 2 to 3 years, But I have to say I faced worst problems of internet cut, cable cut, no internet, slow speed internet every twice a week from their service connection to me.

    I never saw the week without any problem or hiccup from You Broadband’s Internet connection.

    Their local service is in hands of brats who don’t know what they are talking they never have ready answer or solution to problem, they use worst language of uneducated type that you say f**k Who appointed you to that position?

    Only good thing about You Broadband is that they have good ‘Call Center’ Support it is what you need to report the problem to them…

    I would say don’t use ‘You Broadband’

    I have decided now I will switch to MTNL Triband now for sure…!!!

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

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  • OpenSource GnuCash Accounts Books Keeper Application for Macintosh OSX, A User Experience & User Interface Review

    Introduction to Application
    I was searching for Macintosh OSX Application that can keep my Accounts Books for free & perfectly.
    I found the Mac OSX application called GnuCash, I was excited & happy as it was free & open-source…

    Solution

    • I downloaded the application, Opened the DMG file, Copied GnuCash Application to Mac OSX Application folder,
    • Application Icon was pretty much ordinary with flat colors no 3D or gradients or shadows
    • Worst thing was it was having big & Microsoft Windows like GUI (Graphical User Interface)
    • Button Clicking was not working
    • It had confusing approach for user to where to start from or just how to use it
    • GnuCash is alien Application for family of application of Mac OSX
    • It gave hint that HCI – UX & UI designer of GnuCash never used the mac before
    • GnuCash looses big time even being only open-source application in it’s category
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Lovebirds – A Suspense Story A Marathi Play

    Yesterday I saw ‘Lovebirds’ Marathi Play at Gadakari Rangayatan at Thane.

    I was amazed with basic story line behind play & how suspense was well maintained in play throughout & how live motion video was used to evolve around story…

    This is the first time I was experiencing suspense story live in theater & happening in front of me.

    Live Video on Wall was vary well used to explain & illustrate story no second was lost or misused to or lost in Live Video & live Action, All sync in video & live action was perfect

    I would suggest all to watch this Marathi Play…

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  • CGTEXPO11 – Fool’s Paradise

    I attended this years CGTEXPO1,

    Sadly I was totally upset with content, management & arrangement of the program.

    Programs had no content to look at or learn from, I felt totally waste of money & time from point of view of a student or professional who is looking for learning opportunities…

    I don’t know why this people depend on foreign professional, It gives me the feeling of show off from money & status point of view…

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