I remember reading about Apple releasing Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows PC 3 months back. I read it on my brother’s PC who has a strict no beta testing policy on his computer. I should say that i am always fascinated by Apple and its clean, beautiful and functional products. Now that I am back on my good old PC i gave it a try and I am in love with it. Thats probably an exaggeration but compared to reports on the Internet(mostly by stupid motherfucking Microsoft fanboys) it performs pretty damn good.
The installation was fun and easy. Just don’t select the option of downloading and installing Quicktime with it. I was a loyal iTunes user for last 3 years for its clean interface and instant search facility but had to switch over to Winamp owing to iTunes 7.*’s memory hogging and slow features. Safari with its neatness and Apple likeliness took me back to the good old days. Bookmark management system was nice as well. Changed browser fonts was a pleasant change from the same old Windows fonts used in Firefox.
No doubt that Safari is the FASTEST web browser i have ever used. The pages loaded quickly and overall function was damn fast. Me Likes!
Let me make a point very clear. Safari is NOT a memory hog for me. I don’t care how MS fanboys rape this browser to show 98766890mbs of RAM usage but for me it performs smoothly at an average 25mb RAM usage without any problems. yeah, I am talking with 6 tabs open. here is a screenshot to back me up you bozos :-
No, I am not stupid enough to put my bare ass on fire by browsing internet on a beta copy but I can’t wait for a final release of this oh so cute and fun browser to make it my default.Let the good old Firefox rule me until then Love is in the air. Great going Apple, be like this forever <kisses the Safari logo>
*****Warning - Spoilers Ahead*****
I was just bored so I went through my DVD collection of unwatched movies and I came up with DVD Screener of ‘Hostel’. After watching the movie my first thoughts were ‘Why the fuck did they have to flash Quentin Tarantino’s name so many times in the cast ?’. Not that I hated this movie but just to ensure quality he didn’t have to be included for this was far from his stuff. I am his huge fan and I feel sorry for he must have felt like an idiot to give his name for a movie like this.
I am a kind of person who can watch 5-6 movies in a day without getting tired. but, I should say that after all the sex, blood, gore and shock value served raw this movie left me pretty much exhausted. The feel was very reminiscent of the Saw movies to me, which I think are a great concept in and of themselves but ‘Hostel’ itself had nothing of a great story line. Let me sum up the movie to make myself clear :-
Three backpackers, two Americans and one Icelander, tour europe with an intension of getting as hisgh as they can and as many chicks as they can screw. In Amsterdam they accidently come to know of a place Slovakia where sex-mad women thirst for men in general, and American men in particular. They of course decide to go there and at first it seems the rumors were true. But they soon learn that the hostel is nothing more than a front for a bizarre club called ‘Elite Hunting‘ where one can pay for torturing and killing humans.
The first part of the movie is something more of a cheesy teen sex comedy with lots of fake boob jobs and subjects clubbing in unrealistic discos with loud music where you can still talk in normal volume. The rest of the part of Hostel develops an interesting premise and is better seen in ignorance of any plot summaries/background information on the movie. In the style of Asian horror, there is plenty of over-the-top gore, and in the style of campy American horror, there’s plenty of nudity, but this doesn’t detract from the ability of the director, Eli Roth, to take us to new and ever darker places as the plot thickens, building suspense right up to the gratifying finale. The end of the movie serves sweet revenge with the escaped torture victim making one of the torturers taste his own medicine by severing the fingers and then killing him.
This movie left me with a mixed feeling. No doubt this movie kept me didn’t let me take my eyes off the screen for a split second and I thoroughly enjoyed it but it did lack in creativity ,storyline and acting with the first time average actors. The movie had a better scope and what was served raw could have been made more beautiful. If your expectations are low enough, and your tastes in gore sufficiently robust, then you are in for a good time. Otherwise, skip this and see a classic Hitchcock film. You’ll feel better about yourself. I gotta give this one a 7.5/10 for its sheer entertainment factor
