Not the best of the 6 Saw movies. It’s kind of got a conclusion but I’m not sure I liked the way the wound it up. I think I know why though, I was expecting that this would be the last one, but from what I can find Saw VII is already scheduled for release next October.
iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store Woot, mentioned by name in a daring fireball article, very nice indeed. Gruber makes some good points about why web apps can’t really compete with native apps, and I agree with most of his points, except maybe this one:
Not only are native iPhone apps faster and more capable than their web-app equivalents, but they’re easier to write.
Faster? Yes. More apable? Yes. Easier to write? Unless you know objective-c/cocoa/etc no, not really. if it was that ‘easy’ Hahlo would have stopped being a webapp long ago.
Also on the speed issue, yes the interfaces on a native app are going to be smoother and faster to use than webapps, but in the case of something like a twitter app a lot of that ‘speed’ has to do with the retrieving of the data from the twitter api. There is only one api and both webapps and native apps use it, they both request the same data, from the same source, over the same connection. They have to download the same avatars (poorly resized avatars don’t help download speeds…) etc. this isn’t where the speed issue lies. For example once you’re using Hahlo and all the main UI resources have loaded, your not really requesting much more data than a native app when you view a new timeline, profile, search results etc.
Also, how many native iPhone apps can also be used on Android devices and other devices such as the Nokia N900? Just saying ;p
At times its almost more drama than comedy, which for a movie starring Adam Sandler and written and directed by Judd Apatow is kind of hard to believe. Unlike a lot of his comedies where he plays some weird/annoying/mentally deficient character, Adam Sandler is almost playing himself in this role a big shot comedian. Good for a semi-serious laugh, and the inclusion of some stereotypical Aussie humour via Eric Bana was good too.
Nothing beats a good zombie slaughter. And remember you can’t have slaughter without laughter.
Webkit Web Inspector Updates These look like great changes, will have to download the latest nightly and try them out. The current Web Inspector is cool, but I still always go back to Firebug, its not that I don’t like Web Inspector I just prefer Firebug.
