Showing posts with label Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Review. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2015

Baahubali: The Beginning..!! (Version 1.0)




Amidst the mad rush, the poster stories, the word of the mouth publicity, the social media posts and even social media character games, the Movie stands out.

"Wow what a statement, as though we did not know that, be specific Mister or shut up", this was a reaction.

So here goes, the story is like a fictional novel when viewed from an artistic point of view, especially readers will be able to associate it to the Shiva Trilogy series. The detail in which everything from the palace, costume, language, dialogues, stunts ... are described is laudable. The intensity in Tamanna's eyes when fighting as a rebel stands out that other scenes.

Dialogue delivery and the expressions by Ramya Krishnan stands out and I presume if I do not possess enough caliber to write a detailed review on the same. Atleast she has left the dancing department in this movie.

Nasar's acting on the other hand could have been much better. Could be a little more expressive and deep in the character like how he was in Pulikesi.

Prabas, “The Hero” where his packs definitely show out the hard work put in. The area of improvement would dance department.

Rana, the HULK. Has stood out as THE VILLAN, I am not sure why his son is shown here. He reminded me of Rick Flair, who had come with HHH (of WWE).

Sudeep as the Persian merchant as usual stood out in his department but is that intro necessary here? could we expect to see more of him the movie's sequal? Got to wait and watch.

It would be the greatest sin if "THE Sathyaraj" is not mentioned here. The veteran actor has stood out in all the scenes where he appears. The one scene where he jumps out of a window when the queen calls to finish the rebels and the one where he skids on his knees on knowing seeing Prabas's face is a class apart.

They say there is an item song which is un-necessary. First of all, I would say the items (what every you may take them to be) in the song are nowhere comparable to an ITEM song, note meeting any ITEM standards and making it a little ignorable. So please do not go to the movie expecting something out of the item song.

Folks, the special effects can be noticed to have been very nicely done especially the water falls, war field, zero gravity jumps, Travelling Arrows, the animated weapon, Snake N Arrow, Fish Pedicure, ...

The movie had done exceptionally well in all the departments. A few extra super human stunts could have been cut, yet when viewed as reading a book and in an artistic angle the movie is a really "The Beginning" as the benchmark set to all the departments.

Wait for the sequel movie starts…

Friday, October 11, 2013

Mobile Developer Summit #mods Day - 2

Crazy and Focused

Takeaway: Human Interface Guideline
 

Tagline: Focus your audience.

Really focused... :)

Samsung - Keynote

Mostly on Health Care and Health Care apps. A lot of them in market place (Samsung, I presume)

Tag Line: Maintain Health rather than Health Care... :)


NFC beyond Payments: the New Faces of Mobile Computing

I'm not geeky enough to understand the concept of NFC. 

Eagerly waiting for the nest talk by Scott Davis on HTML5 + iOS7



A  few technical take away;

progress
iframe seamless
video 
.vtt format for captioning a video track
Camera option (API)
input type ="file" accept="image"
posititon: -webkit-sticky

-webkit-image-set
speech library

Blocks for the Reluctant Developer


An insight on blocks in objective - C. Easy to understand.

Lunch with Gulab Jamoon... :)

Building Fast & Fluid Next Gen Mobile Websites

A small insight to single page application architecture.

A few issues;
  • Page Loading
  • Device Specific Issues
  • Navigation Static and History URL
  • Refresh
  • Memory Issue

Responsive Design

Modular Layout + CSS Media Query = Responsive Web Design
IE8 - Media Query, media-query.js or respond.js

New take away require.js, history.js

Optimization
  • Minification and Gzip
  • AppCache
  • Minimize DOM manipulation
  • Conditional JS loading
  • CSS Optimization
  • Image Optimization
  • Reduce HTTP calls and HTTP payload
Unit Testing Frameworks: Jasmine, Karma

Editor for HTML5 web-apps: RubyMind

A Journey towards successful HTML5 Mobile Apps 

A very detailed insight on the HTML5 app development strategy and approach and the journey to take.

Verdict

With still a couple of more sessions to go but till now there are No regrets for attending #mods, it is time well spent.

All the sessions till now were informative with a little intuitive information.


A Few Tweets Today
Intel XDK + Intel WiDi = Magic, thank you wish to develop an app ASAP..
From the front row in Hall1 just turned around to see a packed hall at for presentation on +
day 2 counting on the ticker 90 minutes to start...
A small writeup and a feedback on my blog about day-1 do read through and respond


prize winning tweets at can be projected.. Just a Tweety Feedback to

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Mobile Developer Summmit - Day#1

At the Mobile Developer Summit #mods;

1. Spark instilled on the apps possibilities
2. Ford Developer Program
3. New plans / Phases and ideas in the Automotive sector
4. Intel WiDi
5. Intel SDX
6. Intel HTML5 Development Tools

All this six packed pointers packed up in just 2 hours. A deep dive yet to come.


Visited the Ford and the Intel stalls to know about their developer events and the SDKs they provide which is a completely new insight. Another spark instilled to think is a different view for mobile solution / product to be integrated into a automobile. No ideas yet..!!



The Other Side to Usability

Any application UI should be Engaging, Well Styled, Effective, Easy to Learn
For the home page which takes time to load, we can use any of the following approach
    Progressive Loading
    Splash Screen
    Gamification screen
    Lazy Load
The best practice to develop a mobile app is (my opinion is for any web application);
    1. Ease the load on the UI thread.
    2. Use the Worker Thread / Process to do most of the processing.
    3. Cache the objects (Example: Images, JavaScript, StyleSheets). In HTML5 use the META file.
    4. Not over using OverDraw
    5. Themes; Inbuilt Themes - Build on them.
    6. Use a TimeStamp to clear the client cache.

Mobile OSes

This was a very interesting session on the different mobile OSes that are already in market or going to be in the market;

A few note points are;

  • Software vs Hardware
  • Market Share vs Profitability
  • Free SDK to Store pattern (Google)
  • Hardware to sell products (Amazon)
  • Selling the Software (Microsoft)
  • Google + Amazon => ?
  • Tizen Phones?
  • Fragmentation charts are a good input.
  • Multiple OSes on the same hardware an year away.
  • Firefox OS for phones. Should the HTML5 standard be emphasized???
  • Ubuntu Touch
  • Web OS
  • Apple OS

There were No canned solutions here only pointers to think.

Lunch arrangements were good with separate Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian counters with a sweet and ice-cream.



Firefox OS & the Power of HTML 5



The n/w was not good here. But the presentation by Soumya Deb was good giving an insight on the Firefox OS and how and what HTML5.



It was a honor attending this session sitting beside Scott Davis.



Tea Break, a confluence where there is a Tech Buzz of Mobi Geek terminologies lingering the air.



Develop, Optimize, Debug and Tune your Android Apps


Currently in this session by the person from the Intel team. Gave a good insight on the Intel Graphics hardware-software combination and the intel on power systems directly proportional to the performance.

Feedback for the MODS Organizers


  1. The Lunch can be boxed up and provided to manage the crowd better. 
  2. A mobile app with a scheduler and remainder for the event would be great. BarCamp Bangalore Organizing Team can be the right point of contact for the consulting. They having run the app successfully for over 2 camps now. 
Anticipating and Action Packed Day #2 tomorrow...

Signing off,
Naveen

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

DELL Studio 14: Switching OEM Keys

The following steps are to be followed to switch the ways to use the function keys in a DELL Studio 14 Laptop.

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Click on the “Commonly Used Mobility Settings” under the Hardware and Sound, this opens a Windows Mobility Center window. Select the Function Key Behaviour in the Function Key Row.

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The settings will take effect.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

DELL Studio 14: My Review

My first impression: Looks Good.

The backlit keyboard is one of the main features I admire the most in a DELL Laptop PC.

Ease of use of the Keypad, Removal of the touch panel for the multimedia controls and including the functionalities into the Function keys is also a welcome note to me.

On the first boot, I found that the complete 500 GB of disk space is created into a single partition.

The Windows 7 is just an advancement of the Vista. Nothing much of difference I could make about for a daily use.

There is a office trial versio pre-installed.

Yes, I had a little confusion in mind if the configuration would be correct? Yes, DELL has kept up my expectations.

Another doubt I hd was if there is a provision to lock the Lap? Yes, there is a provision for it.

Verdict: Good machine for the money paid.

Improvements: Disk Partitioning option

Tags: DELL, DELL Studio 14