Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Reviews

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

  • 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…!!!

  • 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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  • Balgandharva, A story of the era where Gandharva use to live in Hindusthan

    Just now I came from film called Balgandharva portraying life of Artist itself…

    Every frame of the film is well designed to era of the “Balgandharva”, No frame of the film is boring or any second of the story is wasted, Right characterization of every artist is unique…

    Even 30 second roll of Actor Angad Mhaskar in character of Freedom Fighter “Kanhere” is heart touching & gives different dimension & direction to the film…

    Today I can say I saw Today’s real Marathi Film, I may saw it three times but no money wasted or felt boredom…

    It is the era of Marathi Natya Ranga Bhumi, Where all female rolls were performed by male actors…

    Actor Subodh Bhave in the getup of Balgandharva is equivalent & By watching that you get the feel why that particular era was called The Gandharva era in Marathi Natya Ranga Bhumi…

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  • Nokia E Series & Software Updates Issue

    Few months back I bought Nokia E Series phone.

    After I received some Mail App & OVI Map Update notice… I updated my device with the latest software…

    But, My all configured emails start failling to update & synchronize.

    I really had a bad time with this updates… What the use of updates if same app stops to work at all…

    I tried to remove specific email but it was of no use… Remove mailbox function enable to start…

    Now I have updated my device with new updated OS version & all my data & settings has vanishes… But I have backup of the same…

    After restoring my settings & files from Backup issue of Mail comeback…

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  • Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)

    I really had a brilliant experience watching this film.

    It’s real breathe of fresh air in this crowded city of movies.

    “Three people, one city faces same happy moments & trauma at same time & at end all unites as city sleeps…!!!”

    You as film viewer you experience the same feelings as film tries to convey.

    It feels It’s great to be from Mumbai itself & view your city from another angle & through lens of Kiran Rao, The director of Film Dhobi Ghat.

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  • Akismet Works!

    After having my website online as it was designed in iWeb with static website structure &  4 to 5 pages… I was more than happy…!!!

    But after I deployed WordPress as my website’s main CMS (Content Management System), I had my Art Blog, my Art Portfolio & other defined pages belonging to my business & liking… My WordPress powered website gave me the boost in google analytics of 100 to 200% in visits & pageviews… But wordpress triggered another feature of website interaction i.e. blog comments.

    I was receiving around 100 to 150 comments monthly, sadly all were SPAM & It was frustrating…

    But then I realized that I have Akismet installed on my website with valid API key but in deactivation mode for that time being…

    So I found answer & realize that how spam free comments can be…!!! so I activated the plugin that just detects spam & delete it at first instance… no further looking needed on those issues anymore…!!!

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