Shattered Dreams
Seems iPhone 4 is not all that it has been hyped up to be. With internet forums flooding with complaints about Screen yellowing. Wonky cameras. An antenna that hates left-handers. If you take even the most cursory of glances around the Internet, it makes it seem like every iPhone 4 to come off the production line has one issue or another — but are the problems really that widespread?
Greg Kumparak takes a deeper look.
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Buzz This!!
Google this week launched Google Buzz, its biggest venture yet into the social media space.
Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts to the service?
To make it work, you’ll need to make sure you’ve set up Google Reader and included that in your “Connected Sites” on Buzz. If you already had a Reader account before setting up Buzz, chances are that’s already set up for you.
So what are you waiting for?? Just hit “Buzz This” and get buzzing!!!!
Read more about it here.
Now follow us on Google Buzz too!!!
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Truth is Terrible
RUNN AWAY!! That is all I can say to somebody who’s planning to go watch RGV’s latest flick: Rann. It seems he has tried to do a Madhur Bhandarkar with it, but failed miserably. Even the presence of Amitabh Bachhan has not been able to lift the standard of the movie.
I have so many questions that I would like to ask RGV: what is Rajpal Yadav doing in the movie? (when you set out to make an intense movie, you don’t put in Rajpal Yadav for comic relief). What is the role of Nitu Chandra?(except for showing her cleavage and legs that is). And this is the best: Why does Purab(Riteish D) always wear a pullover-shirt combination to his office?(there’s certainly no dress-code). But what I’d like to ask him most is, what was he thinking when he made this movie!!
The movie starts pretty good, the opening sequence has a horror-movie-like feel and is quite slick. But it seems RGV has tried to keep that same feel throughout the movie. With the camera mostly, if not always, hidden behind something or the other, people going in and out of focus and profusion of dark shadows; after a while, you feel like you are watching a sting operation of some kind. Too many characters is also a problem RGV has not been able to handle. Amitabh B, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Reteish D, Gul Panag, Nitu Chandra, Rajpal Yadav…the list goes on (and I’m not even counting a lot many character artists). In an attempt to juggle so many characters, RGV has not been able to do justice to anybody. Riteish D spends most of his time doing detective work on his motorbike. Amitabh B seems more like a preacher than the head of a large media channel; his son (played by somebody who’s a decent enough actor) is obsessed with his cigarette lighter (again RGV’s obsession with making his actors play with small objects, as if showing how a person swirls a drink in his glass is the sole object of making a movie) and nitu chandra doesn’t have clothes to wear, so she spends most of her time in nighties only…wait!! there’s someone who looks like Rajat Kapoor too, but he spends most of his time calling up people and acting as a message delivery boy.
The editing seems slack, the music ok, the dialogues monologueish and a bit too clisht (hindi for “pure/bookish/heavy”), the characters try too hard and end up being too “filmy”. The talents of Mr. Bachhan and Paresh Rawal have been completely wasted, though Riteish has done pretty well. The story is pretty good; a twist of the conventional corrupt politician-ethical hero theme, the actors are very good. Given to any other director (I would not like to speculate who), editor-cinematographer team and a little revamping of dialogues could have turn it into a riveting drama.
My Rating: 2/5 (that too because of some good sequences by Riteish and Paresh Rawal)
RUNN AWAY!!!
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Its official: Facebook’s first company-built data center will be in Prineville, Oregon, the company confirmed today. The new facility will be among the most energy efficient in the industry, Facebook said, and will provide the social network with headroom for its fast-growing server and storage infrastructure.
Get the full scoop here.
Check out the facebook blog.
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HTC - Swipe
Do you remember how great it felt to switch from T9 to a full qwerty keyboard on your phone? No more laborious multiple taps just to get one letter! Well, the developers of an app called Swype are hoping you’ll get the same feeling when you compare their product to the software keyboard on your smart phones. Swype brings a new way of typing to smart phones: instead of tapping each letter, you just swipe your finger to the next letter you want to put in. It may take some getting used to, but it may also be totally awesome and from the future.
Jay Hathaway has the full story.
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There’s a new camera category in town. It’s EVIL, and it’s going to kick your DSLR’s ass. EVIL stands for Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens, and is our favorite acronym for cameras like the Olympus Pen, the Lumix GF1 and the Samsung NX10. These small, mirrorless, finderless cameras can fit in a pocket and outperform bulky DSLRs. Here’s why your next camera will probably be EVIL.
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