Review: Hugh Jackman

The Wolverine begins, quite unexpectedly, in 1945. Specifically, in a coast a few meters away from Nagasaki. James Howlett a.k.a Logan a.k.a Wolverine peers out from his high containment cell at a young Japanese soldier, Yashida, helping american POWs flee from imminent attack. He tries to help Wolverine out of his cell, but his subordinates call him back. He kneels in the sand along with them. One by one, they commit hara-kiri. But before Yashida can plunge his katana into his abdomen, Wolverine grabs him and pushes him into the cell deep in the ground. The H-Bomb explodes behind them and Wolverine quickly shields Yashida with a large piece of metal and him on top of it. What happens next? I’ll let the movie tell you.

iOS 7 Review: Beta Version

“The biggest change to iOS since the iPhone” was released a few weeks ago. Well, just for people with an Apple developer account. I happen to be a part of the beta experience this time so I gave it a spin. And… discovered why it’s called beta. There have been three beta releases for iOS 7 so far. And this would probably suffice what it’s been: Bug city. Bugs here, bugs there, bugs everywhere! Oh and a few glitches to top it off.

Del Toro Unchained

Pacific Rim does not require you to leave your brain out of the theater or to pretend that you’re a kid again. Instead, it actually makes you feel like a kid again in the best way ever. I don’t know if I subliminally put on nostalgia goggles over the mandatory stereoscopic lenses or it was because the film is just that strong. I believe in the latter.

what’s wrong with the third act, anyway?

Of late, a boisterous, magnificent third act has become more than just a norm in a blockbuster film. It’s as if a film’s blockbuster status is negated if it doesn’t have a huge third act with lots of explosions. Man Of Steel and Star Trek 2 both have had huge, destruction-y, action-packed third acts with whole cities being levelled and explosion going off without any necessity except to satiate the public’s supposed hunger for disasterporn. This results in a third act that ends up being completely devoid of any emotion or humanity, and an emotionless scene is just not worth having. This, in turn, necessitates an emotional “beat” to be hackneyed into the act just so that the scene doesn’t feel absolutely lifeless. And the result? A messy third act that satisfies only on a very superficial level.

Man Of Meh

WWDC Preview – iOS 7, OS X, iRadio and more

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, popularly know as WWDC, is Apple’s annual event where they announced new products alongside developer-centric events, sessions and hands-on. Strictly speaking it’s a developer playground but that doesn’t stop Apple from capturing other eyes during the keynote.

WWDC has seen plenty of hardware announcement but that isn’t even the real story. The crux of the conference is software, something more important than hardware in my opinion. See, a new iPhone lasts a year. They build a new one and we forget about the old one. Software on the other hand offers a peak into the secretive mindset of Apple. We get a glimpse of where the company would like to be in the long run and what position it wants to assume.

iOS 7: Wish List

Over the years, Apple has developed it’s operating system for phones and tablets as we all know I’m sure, quite nicely. Even though iOS is an awesome operating system, Android fanboys love to highlight many of the missing features in iOS from time to time. As a little known fact, iOS can perform all of these functions, even more. How? Jailbreaking!

Jailbreaking removes any limitations on your iDevice whatsoever, so that you can do anything you really like that’s not been given to you by Apple. But this gives rise to a teeny tiny question: Why doesn’t Apple add some of these tweaks into their operating system?

Well as a matter of fact, Apple did get inspired by some of the popular tweaks of the Jailbreaking world in the past and make changes to iOS. For example recently added features like- FaceTime over cellular data network, increased productivity of Siri (Siri now opens apps, etc.), toggle for using the AppStore on wi-fi only, Do Not Disturb, those superb gestures in an iPad to switch apps, are all inspired from some very popular jailbreak tweaks.

Thus in this growing battle of the operating systems and on the dawn of the new age of iOS that comes with the launch of iOS 7 during this year’s WWDC, here are some of the jailbreak tweaks Apple must incorporate into iOS this time-

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meme Website.

Oh no no, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t opened a new website. I’m referring to the only website everybody knows Zuckerberg owns, facebook.

Now being the lazy guy I am, the only knowledge I have about “thefacebook“‘s not so humble origins is from The Social Network, as do most of you I hope. So yeah, facebook started out as a website to connect Harvard students and the “elite” who owned a harvard.edu email.

But if it would remain limited to that, facebook wouldn’t have as it proudly flaunts on its newsroom page, “More than a billion monthly active users as of December 2012”. Being the brilliant website and phenomenon facebook is, it was bound to be a super-hit once made public. But even the obsoleted Yahoo Messenger, Orkut or Google Plus started out like that. What made facebook going? As Jesse Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg) says about facebook in the movie, “It won’t be finished. That’s the point. The way fashion’s never finished”. There we have it. It’s all about taking it all down and re-inventing it regularly.

Facebook as all of us users know, has been through a lot of stages right in front of our eyes. It’s been growing and becoming better every passing stage. It has the ability to adapt, grow and fit in around us.

And that’s only because of one reason: We all are facebook.

Dan Brown’s Inferno – A Spoiler-free Review

So, a new Dan Brown novel is out. Maybe you’ve already read it. Maybe you already know the triple crosses at the end. Maybe you’re still trying to figure out what the hell happened. Maybe you’re checking the facts just to see if you can troll the book. But maybe, if you didn’t know about it till now, read on and you’ll get an idea of what (and what not) to expect. Spoiler-free, of course.

Tumblr!

Following up to the Wall Street Journal story, Tumblr has now been officially acquired by Yahoo! for $1.1 billion. The cash deal will go through in the second half of the year.