Skyfall: A review

Fifty years down the line, one cannot expect a new entry into the half-a-century long franchise to release without sky high expectations and/or hype. Especially when big names like Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins, along with Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes and Javier Bardem are attached to the project. But does hype decide the quality of the movie? No. Overhyped films have certainly failed to deliver the goods. So how does Skyfall, the 23rd entry into the James Bond franchise, stack up, both to its predecessors and the hype? That’s not an easy question to answer.

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A Done Deal

Worse kept secret? Certainly. Now we have the User Manual on LG's website itself. It seems Google and friends have given up trying to hide secrets.

Take a look here.

Nexus 10 User Manual Leaked

We might not have to tablet yet but we do have a Quick Start Guide.
Korean gadget site Seeko has put up what seems to be the User Manual of a 10-inch Samsung Nexus tablet. We could very well see this device on Google's upcoming Android event.

Carphone Warehouse Confirms LG Nexus 4

British retailer Carphone Warehouse draws the curtain on the rumoured LG Nexus 4. According to the site the device will sport a 4.7-inch 1,280 x 768 display, Snapdragon S4 processor and 8-megapixel camera, 2GB RAM and a mere 8GB onboard storage. Oh and it runs on Android 4.2!

Ships on October 30th.

PS. I have slight doubts on Carphone Warehouse.

Nexus 10

While Apple is going around making things smaller, Google is busy making things bigger. Along with the 5 odd Nexus phones Google is also set to unveil a 10-inch Nexus tablet. Oh and there's the small matter of the superb 2560×1600 pixel resolution this device is believed to have.

Key Lime Pie

Rising above all ICS-not-adopted-at-all-jokes, Google is poised to release Android 4.2 at next week's event. Codenamed Key Lime Pie, 4.2 is expected to carry the Ice Cream Sandwich branding along with a widget that allows customers to access Play store content more easily as well as a panoramic mode for the camera that will support both vertical and horizontal scans and some serious security improvements.

Google announces Android event

Google has sent out invitations for an October 29th Android event which will take place at New York City.

Multiple Nexus devices are expected to be unveiled at this event. Oh and to our joy the event will be live-streamed here.

Nexus Rumour Round-Up

This year, we'll probably get to see more than one Nexus device. What? How? Really? For answers to intelligent questions such as these read along...

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Bombaynerds Weekly

Bombaynerds Weekly is the self-explanatory weekly round up off all the cool things happening in music, movies and tech.

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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.


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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.

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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.


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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.


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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.


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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.


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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.


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Crap text: ord was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan).[2] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.[citation needed] His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.

All You Need to know about "Cloud Atlas" (Before you watch the Film)

There has been a lot of buzz about the latest Wachowski release – Cloud Atlas. Owing primarily to the beautiful extended trailer we saw a couple of months ago, and due to the fact that it just premiered at the Toronto International Film festival recently. The TIFF premiere was met with mixed reviews ranging from ecstatic praise lauding it to be one of the greatest works of art in the 21^st century to  “Meh...”  So, you either get this Cloud Atlas or you don’t.

The Most Amazing iPhone Yet

And there... After all the leaky business we finally have amongst ourselves the next generation of the world's best selling smartphone. It looks eerily similar to the 4/4S and we all know how good that design that was. I thought the iPhone 5 over the next xyz years I explain exactly why...

Closing time

The Foo Fighters perform as the event wraps up.









Apple unveils the new iPod Touch

At 6.1 mm and 88 grams this is the thinnest and lightest iPod ever made. 4" display just like the iPhone 5, A5 processor, 5-megapixel camera, improved FaceTime camera, Siri, iOS 6, 32GB internal storage, avaliable in 5 colours. Ships October with a price tag of $299



Apple unveils the new iPod Nano

2.5 inch screen, lightning dock, new design, full multi-touch, FM tuner, DVR functionality, wireless audio streaming is enabled (via Bluetooth), available in 7 colours, 30 hours of music playback, the longest battery life of any nano. Ships October with a price tag of $149




Apple announces iTunes 11

Massive design and functional improvements all over the place. Rolls out in late October. Truly a masterpiece I'd say...







Apple announces the iPhone 5

4" screen, glass and aluminium body, 7.6mm, 112 grams, LTE, A6 processor, improved acoustics, Lightning adapter, enhanced rear camera and better battery life. Looks exactly like the leaked images.





And here we go...

"Ladies and gentlemen, we'll begin shortly. Please switch devices to silent mode." And so it begins...








Whoops!

iPod Nano, iPod Touch get leaked along with the iPhone 5, this time on the Apple website! Also expected is the revelation of iTunes 11. Whatever happened to doubling-down of secrecy.






It's On...

Finally, the day of the iPhone 5 (probably more). The event kicks off at 10.30PM (IST). Unfortunately Apple won't be streaming the video so we'll have to make-do with live-blogs. We'll be live tweeting for our account and iStud will be reacting on his Twitter timeline as well. Shine your shoes people...

Event Venue

Beautiful night shot of the Yerba Buena Centre for Arts.









Official: Apple announces date for iPhone 5 event

Yeah well you know the rumours... They're true now. Apple has mailed out invitations to an event in San Francisco on September 12th at 10AM PT (10.30PM IST) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The shadow tells us that it's gonna be something related to a 5, I wonder what it is!

Apple could throw out something else in the mix, iPad Mini? 13" retina MacBook? New iPod Touch? iTV? Pulse raised for this one

iPhone 5 Rumour Round-up

There are iPhone 5 rumours all over the place and hence here we are. Here's a complete collection of all the reports about Apple's latest and greatest...

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The 7" iPad [Updated]

The iPad Mini is rumoured to make an appearance at the 12th September and it would be biased not to have a rumour round-up about this baby. Here it is...

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BOOK REVIEW: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

A Game Of Thrones, the TV show is out, and is the talk of the town, and, of the Internet as well (judging by all the Ned Stark memes that are floating around). People are finally catching on to why I was pimping out the series of books written by George RR Martin a few years before the TV show came out. Game of Thrones was game changing and introduced to the world an edgier, grittier form of writing Epic Fantasy (and Sci-Fi). This ushered in a new age of Fantasy books which were meant for adults, with all their fantastical elements grounded in a Human reality. Joe Abercrombie is a part of this new wave of epic fantasy with his debut The Blade Itself, released on May 2006.