Green plug hubs

As much as we loathe the thought of yet another kind of plug, this piece of equipment solves all our problems.The green plug hook's up with anything like Paris Hilton but is also energy efficient like Nicole Ritchie- now thats what i am talking about.The idea behind the green plug's a lot like the energy-saving chip . This has the facility to hook up all the equipments into one place and with a microprocessor chip as multi controller it also efficiently controls the juice transfered to all the equipments and ensures that none is wasted.

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Fancy Soccer ball : Saves refs from beating

In the soccer world what you really do not want to be is a referee especially the one that makes a wrong call . What I mean is that soccer fans are animals. For example Europe has accepted the fact that after every match there will be a set of teenagers roaming the streets just to get their hands on someone and take out all thats bundled up in them for the loss of their favorite team. Just imagine the referee getting caught in their hands . Luckily, there's a fancy new soccer ball that'll take some of the pressure off of refs.

It's loaded up with sensors, and when it passes across the goal line, an encrypted signal is sent to a special watch that the referee is wearing letting him know that the goal is indeed legitimate. Apparently the tech inside isn't so sensitive that it can't be kicked all over the place, and you've got to assume that intercepting the signal wouldn't really be worthwhile, as even if the refs watch goes off when the ball is at mid-field he probably won't call it a goal. And really, this should cut down on violence aimed at refs. After all, beating up a fancy soccer ball can't be nearly as satisfying.

Land Rover: Concept car wit a real cool Concept

We normally don't get super excited about concept cars, but this Land Rover LRX Concept has something we're quite interested in: iPhone integration. Not only does it have a slot carved out especially for the phone that allows it to dock into the car like some sort of brushed-metal lover, it's even got a gigantic "Start" button that appears so you can (we presume) start the car! In addition to this, there's an iPod docking station on either side of the power-adjustable speakers, so you can take even more music on the go.


Now to go a little bit in detail.....
So here is the land rover. This Awesome piece of metal looks blinding. And the interiors well .... they speak for themselves. Take my word for it there is nothing else . once you are seated in the rear you'll feel like you are in a freaking star wars flick and urged to say SHIELDS UP CAPTAIN. For all the remodeling freaks out there (I am one of them). There is a wide variety of stuff you can add on to HER (the car.though it looks totally masculine i feel the real way to respect a car is to give it a dash of feminism.). The LCD dashboard gives a full real time 3D view of the car that is jus so cool. It actually takes you to a new dimension.

Well as for me I am not a very car like person ( I go for bikes - BABE MAGNETS). And concepts are not my thing but seriously the Land rover is one Hell of a car and an awesome combination of brains and beauty.

MY ratings : 8/10 ******** **

Fire Steel

Developed by the Swedish Defence Department (small but perfectly formed no doubt), the Light My Fire Firesteel is simply staggering. Whenever you're in the great outdoors (or if you often battle with your fireplace), just reach for your Firesteel and you'll never need - or want to use, frankly - a lighter or matches ever again. Working even in the wet or cold, a slow and easy 'strike' across this magic little steel produces a huge spark up to 3,000°C! We couldn't believe how much spark this little marvel put out - it's a much brighter spark than anyone round here, that's for sure.

Features

• A Swedish fire starter that starts a fire whatever the weather.
• By dragging the striker along the Firestarter a spark is ignited.
• The spark will easily ignite stoves, barbeques, dry grass and bark.
• The Firesteel is water resistant.
• There are 12000 strikes in the Firesteel.
• Suitable for adults only.
• Size: 15 x 5 x 1.5cm.

Caution, the spark is hot, 3,000°C if you're asking.

Key Finder :

Key loss, like memory loss and for some, hair loss, is one of life's inevitable occurrences. Fortunately, unlike the latter two, there is a cure, and here it is. This great gizmo understands that unlike key-finders of the past, you are bound to have more than one set of keys, and so can locate up to three different sets at the click of a button. Whether it's your car keys, house keys, garage keys, whatever, simply press the coloured button corresponding to the set that's gone walkabout, and they will beep at you until you locate them. Normally in your other jacket, deep in your handbag, under the sofa, or if you have children, possibly in the fridge. Who'd have thought that someone would come up with an idea that almost makes losing your keys fun!

Features

• Three sound sensitive key-ring locators to attach to your keys.
• A remote control with coloured buttons, corresponding to the colours on the keys' locators.
• Pushing the controls button will activate a beeping sound leading you to your misplaced keys.
• A range of 15ft.
• Suitable for ages 6 years+.
• Requires 4 x CR2032 Batteries (included).

Size:-

• 6 x 4 x 1.5cm (each locator)
• 8 x 4 x 1.5cm (remote control).

Video Gear

These are all very Blade Runner meets Minority Report. Basically these space age shades are your very own take anywhere 50 inch movie screen. Weighing in at just 68g, ezVision Video specs plug into your iPod Video or any portable video/movie/DVD player and screens your movies in such a way that it seems as though you're looking at a huge screen. They allow you to zone out from the world around you and get right into the movie, slide show, or whatever. There are retractable headphones that are built into the arms of the specs, so you can truly plug-in and zone-out. Watch movies in bed without disturbing your better half, chill out on the train in front of a top film, or plug in in-flight and free yourself from those horrible little seat-back screens. They have an 8 hour re-chargeable battery, an integral volume control, and come with adaptors to connect to iPods (and we tried it successfully with the new Zune player too) and DVD players. When you can't get to the cinema, bring the cinema to you.

Features

• Video eye-wear offering a 50inch virtual screen to watch DVDs, videos from your Video iPod, TV, or games from your gaming station.
• Resolution of 320 x 240.
• Built-in headphones.
• Portable and lightweight at just 68g.
• Fit like a pair of glasses.
• An eight hour rechargeable battery pack with volume control for the ezVision.
• Adaptors to connect to iPods and DVD players.
• Suitable for ages 14 years+.
• Requires an AC wall charger.
• Size: 16 x 6.5 x 3cm (folded).

Laser Cosmos : Light up ur ceiling

Just occasionally a product comes along that simply blows us away. We get to see a lot of crazy and sometimes brilliant inventions, but Laser Cosmos is without a doubt the most superb one we've seen. There is no product out there that comes even close to the sheer excellence of this galactic wonder - sorry to sound quite so effusive, but really, it's staggering.

Imagine lying in your room, and having the ceiling whipped away to reveal the vast outreaches of the cosmos whirling overhead, complete with misty blue nebulae (which you can turn on and off!) and the occasional shooting star. Fully adjustable and requiring no set up, this super powerful space projector scatters a random panoply of sparkling green stars that will fill any room from the tiniest bedroom to the largest warehouse with a crystal clear animated star display. What's so clever about this (apart from everything of course) is that it seems so three-dimensional, the varying brightness of different stars makes some seem close and others to come from distant galaxies.

Created from powerful green laser and holographic technology, a display this bright and clear has never been available before. It's utterly mesmerising, and had us transfixed for hours (literally). Whether you're zoning out to music, throwing a party or just chilling, this stunning cosmic light show is like nothing we've ever seen before. Truly one of the most amazing light shows you will see anywhere.

Features

• Romantic, mesmerising star and cloud projector.
• The Laser Cosmos will fill any room, no matter how big or small with a carpet of stars, blue clouds (optional), and even shooting stars.
• The Laser Cosmos itself is shaped like a funky 3D star.
• The Laser Cosmos can be pivoted to any angle.
• A Laser Stars projector lens.
• A cloud formation projector lens.
• A cloud brightness control.
• The projector is self-focussing.
• For best results use in total darkness.
• Use for no more than four hours at a time (the On/Off switch is helpful here).
• Suitable for ages 8 years+.
• Requires a mains adaptor (UK adaptor included).
• Size: 29 x 25 x 20cm.

Never touch the lens or try to adjust it!

Life TIMER :

Time is so staggeringly elastic. The seconds of terrifying anticipation before your parachute opens stretch ahead of you like hours, the minutes before you have to get out of your warm bed to go to work flash by in a nanosecond. The Lifetimer clock lets you keep track of the important things in life in a wonderfully novel way. The clock face is surrounded by a collection of buttons relating to different aspects of your life, such as your next holiday, your next tea break, your birthday, the time you knock off from work, even the last time you had rumpy pumpy. Simply pressing any of these buttons will give you the number of hours, minutes and seconds you've got left (or that have passed in the case of some) till the event happens. Press, and it's only seven minutes and twenty seconds to your coffee break; press, and you've been in your current relationship for two years, three months, six days, ten hours, four minutes and twelve seconds, etc etc. It's a brilliant idea and great fun - in fact it's amazing quite how much time you can waste simply pressing the buttons to see how much time you're wasting. Watch the seconds left till you can go home from work tick away (backwards of course), or the days since you last made like a rabbit add depressingly up.

The Lifetimer - possibly the most interesting and interactive clock ever invented.

Features

• The Lifetimer keeps track of the important things in life, counting up or down to momentous events like 'home time'.
• An option to set the clock to 12 or 24 hour clock.
• A stopwatch function.
• The Lifetimer counts the days until your Birthday, Christmas, next holiday, lunch hour, home time, the weekend, the event of your choice.
• The Lifetimer times how long it has been since you started your job, began your relationship, last had sex.
• The calendar stretches up to the year 2050.
• The Lifetimer is an interactive little thing, pinging away with date reminders and scrolling

  

  messages across its back-lit LCD screen.
• Ergonomically designed.
• Powered with 2 x AAA batteries (not included).
• Suitable for ages 12 years+.
• Size: 8.5 x 9.4 x 8.5 cm.

Emergency Mobile Charger.....

There are all sorts of mobile chargers out there, but this is about the most compact, ludite friendly, and neatly designed one we've ever seen. Consisting of a sleek blue metal tube, you simply pop in an AA battery and plug it into your phone for an extra two hours talk time. This new version will also charge up any iPod. Snappy eh? Great design, excellent idea and as cheap as cod and chips.

Compatible with the following devices:

Mot. V3 Series:	E770V/ E1070/ L2/ L6/ L7 SLVR/ U6 PLEB/ V230/ V235/ V3/ V3i/ V3X/ V3 RAZR/ V360
Nok. 6230 Pop-Port Series:	1100/ 1101/ 1110/ 1600/ 2100/ 23xx/ 26xx/ 3100/ 3120/32xx/ 33xx/ 3410/ 3510/ 36xx/ 5100/ 5140/ 5410i/ 60xx/ 6100/ 6170/ 6220/ 6230/ 6230i/ 6260i/ 6310/ 66xx/ 68xx/ 72xx/ 7380/ 76xx/ 800/ 9300/ 9500/ Ngage
Nok. 6233 Series:	1112/ 3250/ 5500/ 6101/ 6103/ 6111/ 6125/ 6131/ 6136/ 6233/ 6234/ 6270/ 6280/ 7360/ 7370/ Exx/ Nxx
Sam. D800:	D520/ D8xx/ D900/ E870/ E900/ P300/ X820/ Z400/ Z510/ Z520/ Z540
Son-Eri. Fastport K750 Series:	750i/ J100i/ J220i/ J230i/ K310i/ K510i/ K610/ K750i/ K790i/ K800i/ M600i/ P990i/ S600i/ V630i/ W8xx/ W9xx/ Z520i/ / Z530i/ Z550i/ Z710i
Blackberry:	7100t/ 7100V/ 7100x/ 7130V/ 7230/ 7290/ 8100 PEARL/ 8700g/ 8707v
iPod Compatible

Features

• Highly portable, instant phone charger.
• Charges all iPods.
• A powerful charging with a single AA battery gives you up to 2 hrs extra talking time.
• The charge time is the same as for your mains-pluggable charger and may vary depending on your handset/iPod.

To charge your mobile or iPod:

• Load a single AA battery into the charger.
• Connect your phone/iPod to the charger using the compatible plug.
• Connect the charger's plug with your mobile/iPod.
• Your phone/iPod should be showing now the "charging" status.

• Turquoise in colour.
• Made of durable aluminium.
• Powered with a single AA Battery.
• Suitable for ages 12 years+.
• Size: 7.3 x 2 x 2 cm.

Ipod Party Speakers...

The iPod Party Speaker is the ultimate in mobile party systems. Made from heavy duty aluminium and sitting on a two wheeled base with a retractable handle, this 22W mobile speaker system will blast out your tunes wherever you are. As well as a mains cable it also has an internal re-chargeable battery that will give you a mighty twelve hours of play. You can plug in any iPod you care to mention, as well as other CD or MP3 players, musical instruments (with 6.3mm output jacks), and it comes with a jolly decent microphone, so you can DJ, croon along to your music, or just shout at people for no apparent reason. This awesome piece of kit lets you not only have a party wherever you like - anywhere in the house, the garden, the park, the street or the beach, but you can also have a mobile party, trundling it along the pavement and picking up party people as you go. It looks gorgeous and it powers out whatever sound you plug into it - brilliant.

Features

• Portable 22W two way speaker.
• Two wheels on base and retractable handle for 'wheel along' ease.
• An iPod dock for iPod, iPod Mini or iPod Nano.
• 4 inputs for connecting the mike, instruments with 6.3mm jack, or CD/MP3 players.
• Rechargeable internal battery lasting 12 hours.
• Sound blasts out up to 50 metres.
• A jolly decent microphone for MC-ing or crooning along to your tunes.
• A 5m cable.
• Speaker system made from heavy-duty aluminium.
• Adjustable bass.
• Suitable for ages 14 years+.
• Size: 46 x 37 x 26cm.

Ipod Alarm : Clocks

Well all need some sort of alarm to claw ourselves from the depths of sleep, but for many of us an incessant digital beep is not the sound of choice. In steps the iPod Alarm Clock to save the day. Now you can easily set your alarm to wake you with whatever your favourite song of the moment is - though perhaps not 'Wake me up before you go,go' - there are limits after all. You can easily set the alarm on your iPod to wake you with a specific Playlist, Album or Song, the Alarm Clock has an all important nine minute 'Snooze' (i.e. leave me the hell alone, this dream is more important than punctuality) function, and is adjustable so that it will fit more or less the whole family of iPods. It looks like a funked up traditional alarm clock, and the speakers are in the 'bells' on the top of the unit. It's mains powered, so you'll have no flat battery or recharging problems, and we reckon it's the alarm clock for the iPod generation. Wake up to something more tuneful than a bell or a beep, and considerably less depressing than the news.

Features

• A traditional-look alarm clock that fits an iPod.
• Set the alarm on your iPod and your choice of playlist, song or tone will blast out through the bell speakers.
• A 9 minute 'Snooze' function.
• An adjustable depth-dial dock to fit a 40GB, 60GB, 30GB, 20GB, Video iPod or a Nano.
• Use the 'Snooze' button to scroll through your iPod.
• Available in black or white.
• Suitable for ages 12 years+.
• Requires a mains adaptor (UK adaptor included).
• Size: 14 x 14 x 7.5cm.

MP4: Watchesss...wat next...

The MP4 Watch is a multi-media marvel on your wrist. It is of course a watch, but aside from its rather cool watch face, it also plays MP3's, Movies and shows off your Photos! With 2GB of internal memory and a 3.8cm colour screen, you can now watch movies, display your photos and listen to your favourite tracks all from your wrist. The watch charges up from the mains, has a USB cable for downloading your music, picture and video files from your PC, and shuffle, volume, mode, play and pause are all controlled easily by buttons on the side of the watch. It comes with all the software you need (PC only), a set of bud headphones, has an eight hour playback for music and video, and even operates as a Dictaphone - it's a multi-media centre on your wrist.

Features

• A sleek black digital watch that plays MP4 videos.
• An onboard memory of 2GB.
• A 1.5inch colour screen.
• High resolution pixel image 128 x 128.
• Displays the time and date in digital format.
• Supports MP3, WMA, MP4 (NXV) and JPEG formats.
• High quality digital recording and playback function.
• 5 equaliser modes.
• The watch sports buttons for; Menu, Play, Forward, Back, Mode change and Volume.
• A USB cable for downloading music, pictures and video files from your PC.
• Headphones.
• 8 hours of playback.
• Charge the watch with a mains adaptor (UK adaptor included) or USB cable (included).
• Requires a USB port.
• Requires Windows 98/SE/ME/XP.
• CD with set-up software.
• The watch is black in colour with rubber straps.
• Suitable for ages 14 years+.
• Size: 28 x 4 x 1cm.

Mazda-- Taiki..

Mazda's presence at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show this month will revolve around the awkwardly titled "Sustainable Zoom-Zoom" theme that seeks to incorporate the brand's driver-oriented two-word pledge with a long-term environmental outlook. The cornerstone of the Mazda booth will be the Taiki concept, which follows in the tradition of the Nagare design theme that's graced shows across the world for the last two years.

The fourth installment in the series takes a considerable step away from its design predecessors' radical yet feasible philosophy, with a cab-backward design that evolves the aerodynamic wedge-on-wheels ethos above and beyond what we've seen with past concepts. The short overhangs and glass canopy are designer dreams, and Mazda asserts that the concept's exterior lines are inspired by wind flowing through a Hagoromo, the "flowing robes that enable a celestial maiden to fly."

Beyond the hyperbole, a front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout bodes well for its enthusiast credentials, complete with power provided by the next-generation Renesis rotary engine.

The Taiki will join share the podium with the new Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid and the redesigned Atenza.

Beowulf:

“It is not for the gold, it is for the glory.” and this movie might reach both. Beowulf 3D is based in the first English language epic poem ever written, Beowulf. When I first saw the preview of the movie I was exited since I thought it was going to be like a mixture of 300 and The Lord of the Rings. Well the movie is nothing like either of them, nonetheless, it did not disappoint. It has everything that a good epic movie should have: A hero, Monsters, Dragons, action, adventure, even a little comedy, ah! and did I mention it is on digital 3-D. There is just one thing I have to say about this film: It is a must see in the theater.

It is 750 A.D, and Hrothgar, king of the Danes (Antony Hopkins) has built the biggest mead hall, Heorot, where he and his people drink and dance until dawn. Until one day, a hideous creature, Grendel (Crispin Glober), comes to the hall at night bother for all the noise the humans were making and kill everybody but the king. This becomes an every day event, forcing the king to close the great hall for good. He offers half of his gold to whoever kills and free's his kingdom from this monster. A great warrior from the tribe of the Geats, named Beowulf(Ray Wingston) who is brave, kind, strong and his obsession is not gold but pride and power, comes to faced this creature and the creatures Mother (Angelina Jolie). Little did he knows that he was also facing himself.

The movie is well directed. I like the new approach they took about this epic, many people who read the book might be disappointed since it does not follow it, on the other hand, this approach seems more real, makes sense and feels in the gaps that the original version has. the cast makes an excellent job portraying their character. Antony Hopkins makes terrific performance as king Hrothgar, John Malkovich impressed me as Ulfreith, and Jolie makes the perfect Monster, it is a shame she did not have more screen time. The voice of Grendal describe the monster and depicts the time, but sometimes it was hard to understand. The special effects could be disappointed for many people who thought they were going to watch real actors like in 300 and Sin City, but once you realized it is an animated movie, they are excellent, in some scenes it seems like there are the real actors, and the monsters are well depicted and defined; they have no flaw in any scene. the 3D effects are just icing on the cake, they really pull this off the audience will feel they are inside the movie along Beowulf fighting the monsters. The action scenes are energetic, realistic and exiting with the 3D effects the audience see the best angles and be on the edge of their seats. The only think that might disappoint the audience is the final scene, since it is kind of predictable.

Beowulf 3-D completely changed my perspective of this legendary epic. With a talented cast a good director and great special effects Beowulf 3D is an enjoyable, fascinating, unique and mystical experience that might innovate animated movies.

Director : Robert Zemeckis
cast : Ray Winstone,Angelina Jolie,Anthony Hopkins
My Ratings : 7 ******* ***.

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Real Desktop 1.23

Real Desktop transforms the desktop the way it was really meant to be. It provides the flexibility to specialize the desktop by tweeking into the shell.

All this seems interesting but ill let the screenshot do all the talking.
the only drawback of this software is that it requires a high end system but i assure you that the resources it consumes is worth every single byte. And an interesting way to enchant that system of yours.


Title : Real desktop.
Version : 1.23
Category : Desktop Enchancer
My Ratings : 7/10 ******* ***

Link : Click here to download

Aston 1.9.5

Aston fully replaces standard Windows Desktop and delivers a host of new features. It`s nice and easy to work on a computer with Aston installed.

Aston is a desktop enhancer that changes the way your desktop looks. Tired of looking at the old icons . Well here is a way to get rid of them.This nifty software transforms every thing into lists for efficient uses.

This was my review rest is upto how you utilize it and comment on the pros and cons.

Title : Aston
Version : 1.9.5
Category : Desktop enhancer
OS : Win 200/XP/Vista.
My ratings : 5/10 ***** *****

Link : Click here to download

SphereXp 1.1.626

SphereXP - a free 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows XP

The SphereXP is a 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows XP. Taking the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level.

SphereXP is a software that replaces windows desktop and organize objects on the desktop.

It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop such a icons and applications.

This is an awesome way to ehance the way your desktop appears. Rest is all upto how you want to enhance/customize it.


Title : SphereXp
Version : 1.1.626
Category : Desktop Enhancer
My Ratings : 6/10 **********
Link : Click here to download.

As you may know, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was a long time back. I got it of course — it is the #1 reason I bought my Xbox 360. I have since played more than 24 hours. In fact, I am a tad bit over 30 hrs. at this point. This amounts to about one month if in-game time.

I am very impressed, as I knew I would be. The bad news first: The frame rate dips a lot. There is some serious draw in problems. When you are on horseback you see frame rate and draw in problems all at the same time too. But the game is so beautiful and the story is so good, who cares!

I have joined every guild in the game, including the Dark Brotherhood, otherwise known as the assassins guild. I am also pretty far in the main quest-line . I have 17 open quests right now though, so I have been working my way around different quests as I go.

I contracted the disease that, if not treated, turns you into a vampire. I had no clue I had the disease until it was too late. As such, I am now a vampire. At first I was right pissed off at this because I thought it was going to make everything in the game that much more time consuming. I had done so much questing at that point, there was no way I was reverting over seven hrs. of game play just to get rid of this curse. There is a very long process to get rid of it. And that is hardly worth it. So I am going to play as a vampire for the rest of the game.

Oddly, it took trying very hard to become a vampire in Morrowind. Oh well. I get enough stat boosts and other magical powers as a vampire that going back would seem like a step in the wrong direction. It just means I have to “feed” on people to stay youthful. Thankfully there are a lot of NPCs in Oblivion and they all have succulent necks.

This was the review of my first look at this game well for the rest you have to experience yourself.

Title : Elder scrolls 4- Oblivion.
Predecessor : Elder scrolls 3: Morrowind.
Platform : PC, PSP, Xbox (my vote is for Xbox).
ESRB ratings : Mature 17+
Price : $ 59.99 at amazon

Xbox 360:Call of duty 4

It's amazing what a change in time can do. Infinity Ward's latest war effort takes their Call of Duty franchise into the present, inserting the smooth first-person mechanics into an engrossing scenario that tops anything competitors have come up with. This is the first-person shooter of 2007.

Everything from the intensity of the combat to the intricately rendered visuals came together for the fourth entry in this war franchise. The experience is fresh, though it maintains the typical mechanics Call of Duty fans love. The feel of the guns, the pacing, and the shootouts are all trademark Infinity Ward.

Duty's immersive aspects run from the loading screen to the animation. While waiting for the stage to load, the player is treated to intricate tactical maps, with news reports and briefings heightening the experience. You're unlikely to even realize this is how the game pulls data from the disc.

Adding to the atmosphere is some stunning animated routines. The sense of firing a gun is completed as enemies enter into one of countless death throes, the best coming as a sniper rifle picks off an enemy terrorist and his legs let go beneath him. The feedback is instantaneous and leaves no doubt that the shot was success.

Variety continues Call of Duty 4's dominance of this genre, not only mixing locales, but mission structure. Overly large gun battles with hundreds of terrorists are not uncommon, yet the developers have mixed in levels where the struggle is confined to only a few kills as players sneak through the open fields of radioactive Chernobyl with only a sniper rifle to save themselves. Intensity and pressure are unmatched.

Discussion of the single player campaign is incomplete without brining forward those moments that make the entire experience memorable. Rivaling the best of Hollywood, all cinematics are done with the in-game engine. Destruction is unrivaled in terms of video games during the surprise at the end of Act 1, and intensified with a near repeat towards the end of Act III. This is masterful storytelling in a game filled with action.

Multi-player is only the topping on this unquestionably classic video game. Ranking systems and skill ratings now seem out of date as the leveling up system implemented here. The player unlocks modes, additional power-ups, and special features as they climb through the ranks. All of this tracked with an easy to grasp point system, displayed via a meter on the bottom of the screen.

Level design when online (or locally) sets Call of Duty 4 apart. Settings feature a wide range of designs; many which have countless buildings players are able to maneuver in and out of for cover. Open areas are a sure, fast death. Tactical features are balanced with the all-out shooting flawlessly.

After the countless World War II runs, it's a refreshing change of style and pacing that Infinity Ward has chosen for this latest sequel. While other games have explored the modern battlefield, none have come this close to fully capturing all aspects of current day warfare this successfully. There are no aspects of Call of Duty 4 to pick apart. It's that close to perfection.

Call of Duty 4 is rated M (Mature) by the esrb for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, and Strong Language. This game can also be found on PC and PS3.

Good Girl Gone Bad :Rihanna

First things first i don't want you to read this review before listening to the song Umberella from this album. But if you still want to avoid this statuary warning go ahead. BE my Guest.

What I know about R&B and hip-hop can be summed up with the following words: “it’s not my thing really.” So when my friend, Harish (Macrohard stuffs), forced his ear phones on me and made me listen to the current single “Umbrella”, from Rihanna’s third album Good Girl Gone Bad (GGGB), I was surprised to find that I liked it. A Lot. In fact, that afternoon I went home and downloaded the entire album.

“Umbrella” feat. Jay-Z – what doesn’t Jay-Z feature on these days? – is the dancey, hooky first track from GGGB. Although Rihanna’s voice lacks the emotive qualities I usually prefer, electronic production makes-up for it with interesting vocal manipulations, giving her voice a knife-edged sex appeal. The song is helped in no small part by the addictive lyrical hook “You can stand under my umbrella… ella… ella… eh, eh, eh” It draws you in and says “sit down for a good listen.”

The dancey, sexual tease of “Please Don’t Stop The Music” is far and away the hottest track on GGGB. Other tracks of note are the funky snare-drum-march, a la Missy Elliott, “Lemme Get That”, and “Rehab”, penned by Justin Timberlake, both produced by Timbaland. Both excellent fare from the JT and Timbabland duo, with “Rehab” featuring JT’s distinctive falsetto as backing vocals. “Push Up On Me” and “Breaking Dishes” fills out the choicest picks from this very solid album. Although it does fall flat with “Questioning Existence”, “Say It” and bonus track, “Cry” — which manages to be both over-sentimental and emotionally barren at the same time.

Overall Good Girl Gone Bad is more than worth the purchase price. When it’s good it is scorching and when it’s bad the CD is not worth standing your drink on. Thank god for MP3 players so you can chose the best tracks and throw the shite away.


Lists of tracks (click on the songs for their lyrics).

• Umbrella
  
• Push Up On Me
• Don't Stop The Music
• Breakin' Dishes
• Shut Up And Drive
• Hate That I Love You
• Say It
• Sell Me Candy
• Lemme Get That
• Rehab
• Question Existing
• Good Girl Gone Bad
• Cry
• Haunted

Future $ex/Love Sounds : Justin Timberlake.

I’m not even sure how it happened. I just remember putting LoveSounds in my stereo. I was comparing the album title to others that fuse words together—like TLC’s Crazy$exyCool and Prince’s Love$exy—when it hit me: I’m about to listen to Justin Timberlake.

Then I noticed something else: I was eager to listen to it.

Whoa. What’s goin’ on? I thought.

I telephoned my cousin—another music lover—to share my discovery. She was like, “What? The dude who plays on One Tree Hill? I didn’t know you liked the Backstreet Boys.”

“First of all,” I said, noting the irritation in my voice, “the guy on One Tree Hill is Chad Michael Murray! Second, Justin wasn’t a Backstreet Boy.” I noted her muttering, “Whatever,” as I plowed on, “He was a member of *NSYNC. He left the group and debuted with the album Justified, which featured the single ‘Cry Me A River’. That song could’ve been about Britney Spears. Timbaland added his production skills to the album and it went multi-platinum. Anyway, what’s up with all these questions? Damn! Can’t a brotha just listen to a CD in peace? Can I do that? Please? Please?!”

“Dude, calm down.” She was quiet before she added, “Wasn’t he in the Mickey Mouse Club?” She was giggling.

I hung up.

There has been much hype surrounding the release of Justin Timberlake's much anticipated new album, Future $ex/Love Sounds. People in the music business have been talking about how this new album will "save" the music industry. The music industry is in a state of disarray. Big wigs hope and pray Future $ex/Love Sounds will sell enough to make up for profits lost to downloading and online content. Personally, I think the music industry needs to adapt to these changes and take full advantage of an online lifestyle.

One spin of Future$ex/LoveSounds and it's hard to believe that Justin Timberlake was ever a boy-band barnstormer--no modern-day male artist beats him when it comes to single-minded self assurance or suavity. "$exyBack," the inescapable summer sizzler of a first single off this short and thrillingly unwholesome disc, makes that clear on its own: If there was ever any question about whether $exy was in need of reviving--a doubtful proposition at best, given the sheer volume of JT's gyrating counterparts--he lays it to rest instantly over a small but insistent Timbaland-concocted beat. On that track, Timberlake's appeal is his sweet but newly thuggish-sounding voice--here's a good kid gone bad, and he's determined to convince us of it not only by tossing a few well-timed lyrics as "I'll let you whip me if I misbehave." The rest of Future$ex will feel familiar to anyone who picked up 2002's brilliantly funk-flecked Justified: "Love Stoned/I Think She Knows Me," shifts from Michael Jackson-esque paranoid trilling to pulsating guitar rock; "Chop Me Up," a collaboration with Three 6 Mafia and Timbaland, gives up the grit rap-style but still manages to recall both Prince and Stevie Wonder; "My Love," with T.I., mines classic Timberlake territory with meltaway lyrics like "I can see us holding hands walking on the beach/Our clothes in the sand"; and the straight-up but groovy lament "Losing My Way" asks, searchingly, what may be the silliest question a squeal-inducing pop star has ever posed: "Can anybody out there feel me?" Rest assured, JT: we feel every past-, present-, and future-$exy verse. --Tammy La Gorce

Description
'Future$ex/Lovesounds' is the second album release from Justin Timberlake and comes four years after his multi-million selling debut 'Justified'. Produced by the likes of Timbaland, Rick Rubin and Will.I.Am, the album sees Timberlake move away from the slick R&B sound of his debut, opting for a more funk-rock sound citing David Bowie and Prince as key influences.

As for Futureex/LoveSounds, you can tell Timberlake’s working hard to get it right. In the process, he’s been ruling the charts and, ultimately, raising the stakes for his competitors.

Lists of the songs (Click on the links for their Lyrics)

• Future$ex / Lovesounds
• $exyBack
• $exy Ladies / Let Me Talk To You Prelude
• My Love
• Lovestoned / I Think She Knows Interlude
• What Goes Around... / ...Comes Around Interlude
• Chop Me Up
• Damn Girl
• Summer Love / Set The Mood Prelude
• Until The End Of Time
• Losing My Way
• (Another Song) All Over Again
• Pose

Daughtry: Chris Daughtry

You asked for it and here it is the music review for Daughtry. This little album won more than 3 awards at the music awards 2007. It was nominated as the best album along with Minutes to Midnight (Linkin park) and futresex (Justin Timberlake). To everyones surprise Daughtry won over Justin. Well the past is past Daugtry is number ! and here is ur oppurtunity to get a look at the review.

After being offered and turning down the opportunity to become the new front man for Fuel, Daughtry formed his own group, Daughtry. The band consists of Chris Daughtry on vocals, Jeremy Brady on rhythm guitar, J.P. Paul on bass, Josh Steely on lead guitar, and Joey Barns on drums.

While there have been a lot of comparisons between Daughtry and the band Nickelback, I just don't see it. Sure, there are tunes that have a modern feel and are perhaps reminiscent of Nickelback, but to me the songs are of higher quality and Chris's voice is better.

Being on Idol is a double-edged sword. It gives you the name and face recognition to get a contract and a CD made, but it can pigeonhole you into being someone that you are not. By spending a lot of time doing other people's songs on Idol, you are already bagged and tagged.

Now with a contract, you have to put together a band, generate new material, record the CD, and then promote it. This is backwards to how it usually happens. Normally you form the band, generate the material, promote and refine the material on the road, and then get the contract and record the CD. This is why bands with hit debut albums some times fail on sophomore attempts. They try to follow up successful compilations without the road work and refinement.

With that in mind, my overall impression of this CD is very favorable. With twelve songs ranging from hard rock to power ballads, there is a lot for every rocker. Not every one is a hit, but there are more here than on many first albums and more than I would have thought from a band without the time to refine them.

I found four outright smashes — “What I Want” (featuring Slash), “There and Back Again”, “It's Not Over” and “Home”. I would buy this CD for these songs alone. There are a few that are good — “Over You”, “Crashed”, “Feels Like Tonight” and “What About Now”, “All These Lives”, and ”Breakdown”. And the rest are okay. They are not bad, but just didn't do it for me.

Although it was produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, All-American Rejects), my biggest problem with the CD is that it feels over-produced and done too quickly. It doesn't have the raw feel that a group like Daughtry deserves. I think that it should have had a harder edge overall such as is found on “What I Want” and “There and Back Again”. Don't get me wrong, this is a good album, but it could have been a better album with more time and road work.

My grade for this CD is a B+. If you liked Chris on American Idol or you like good old-fashioned American rock, you'll find a lot to like on Daughtry.


List of the Songs. (Click on them for their Lyrics.)

• It's Not Over
• Used To
• Home
• Over You
• Crashed
• Feels Like Tonight
• What I Want
• Breakdown
• Gone
• There And Back Again
• All These Lives
• What About Now
• Sorry

Linkin Park : Minutes to Midnight

Linkin Park has been the butt of many jokes, and Minutes to Midnight isn’t getting the band out of that ditch. The 43-minute album features maybe five minutes of music worth listening to. With their new logo and silhouetted, desolate album cover, the Park boys are clearly trying to redefine their image.

It worked. They redefined; they scrapped most of Mike Shinoda’s rap; and they bumped up their emotion to a breaking point of noise and what they expect us to buy as sincerity. To be honest, I’d like to, but it’s hard with lyrics like “My insides all turn to ash, so slow/ And blow away as I collapse, so cold.”

The boys of Linkin Park have entered a new realm of maturity wherein they take themselves quite seriously beneath their newfound mellower sound, but it just doesn’t click. Their biggest fallacy on Midnight is their assumption that by slowing down their tempos and sounding heavier, perhaps even more disturbed, their lyrics have more meaning. This is not the case. Leading screamer Chester Bennington can cry “Put me out of my misery” as many times as he likes on what would otherwise be a decent track (“Given Up”), but it’s somehow unconvincing.

“I've given up ... / I'm sick of feeling/ Is there nothing you can say?/ Take this all away/ I'm suffocating/ Tell me what the fuck is/ Wrong with me!/ GOD!”

Chester, buddy … you’re 31 years old, and quite rich. Come on.

The album’s high mark comes from Shinoda’s rapping on a scarce two tracks, making his rapper self seem more like a special guest than a member of the band. “Bleed It Out” is an undeniably fun song, with an upbeat rhythm and active blend of rap and screamo. The only other track worth the time is “Hands Held High,” the other Shinoda-rap track (coincidence?). It starts off promising, with angry, politically charged lyrics and inspirational drumming in the background, but it ends up droning on without much of a punch by the end.

Midnight, while not a complete failure, is a testament to the time restrictions that Linkin Park has placed upon itself. The guys’ newer electronic sound is dated even by conventional standards and their lyrics are nothing to write home about. So many years ago they could at least convince adolescent boys, but now we’ve got to ask: Just who are they talking to?


Well lets talk bout the songs the fan point of view. After listening to METEORA and Hybrid Theory. I was expecting a lot more from M2M. Alas , it was not to be. though they were able to capture the crowds attention with what i'Ve done and Little things give u away. Songs like Hands Held High are just a big disappointment. All in all its a good time pass and a must listen for LP fans.

The songs in the album. (click on the songs for their lyrics.)

• Wake
  
• Given Up
  
• Leave Out All The Rest
  
• Bleed It Out
  
• Shadow Of The Day
• What I've Done
• Hands Held High
• No More Sorrow
  
• Valentine's Day
  
• In Between
  
• In Pieces
  
• The Little Things Give You Away
  
• No Roads Left
  

Jab we Met : Imtiaz Ali

The main reason why "Jab We Met" must be seen is Kareena, and the sparks that fly between her and Shahid.

Having gotten beyond her effervescent image in this ode to love, Kareena is brilliant. In a tailor-made role, she plays a boisterous Sikh girl on her way to tell her parents about her boyfriend, but meets up with a brooding, suicidal, jilted entrepreneur.

The sparks fly instantaneously ... and infinitely between them.

A chance encounter between two people on a train is not the most novel of cinematic ideas, but the sparks that fly between Kareena and Shahid seem so genuine that you just sit back and watch the characters go through a series of brilliantly conceived and energised incidents that bring them together.

Surprisingly, there are no surprise elements in "Jab We Met". Director Imtiaz Ali, displaying a deft and lucid command over his material and actors, lets the boy-meets-girl story take its own course without pushing for effect.

The vignettes on the trains and off them look so lived-in you could reach your hand and touch Aditya (Shahid) and Geet's (Kareena) glowing relationship in the small towns of Punjab and other parts of north India.

The dialogues flow in a steady stream of vocalised thoughts and not a single shot strives for effect.

In the first-half Kareena talks and Shahid listens. His is the tougher, less ostentatious performance characterised by pain and anguish as opposed to the Kareena's impetuous exuberance.

Kareena's insouciant warmth just bathes the screen in voluble splendour. She proves once again that when she puts her heart to it, she's quite simply the best. In the second-half, she beautifully depicts the ruins of a broken heart.

The director invests a whole lot of quiet moments between the couple. These are handled with a mellow maturity that defies the overall lightness of the romantic-comedy genre.

The songs composed by Pritam are a pleasure to hear. In "Yeh ishq haye", Kareena's unconditional surrender to joie de vivre reminds one of Waheeda Rehman in the song "Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai" in "Guide".

Kareena has a dozen or so expressions flitting across her restless face at any given time. And the director harnesses these to take the romance to a new high.

Shahid is right up there, furnishing restraint to his role of a man just waiting to come out of his Shell.

There are many reasons apart from Kareena and Shahid why "Jab We Met" is a special film. The narrative moves with serene swiftness through several cities and towns, giving the lead couple a chance to get to know each other.

The never-ending festivities in the heroine's bustling Sikh household do get oppressive beyond a point, and the imminent 'yes' to the romantic mess is unnecessarily delayed.

But by the time Shahid and Kareena get into a clasp for a farewell kiss we are just left cheering the couple.

Heart-warming in its sincerity and utterly wedded to the feeling of romantic integrity, "Jab We Met" is the kind of cinematic experience that is hard to come by in this day and age of smoky cynicism and borrowed rage.

Director : Imtiaz Ali.

Cast : Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor.

Producer : Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd.

Music : Pritam.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa : Priya Darshan.

There is only one reason to bear through this insufferable mumbo-jumbo of black magic and para-psychology. And it's not Akshay Kumar. Sure, his comic timing remains supremely impeccable.

But we've seen him do this stuff many times over. And a sense of predictability has now crept into the way he laughs, the way he stops just a split second before exhaling the guffaw, or the way he lifts his bare feet before the camera and yawns.

Yes, in "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" he does it all and brings the house down.

But once he gets down to playing the serious psychologist doing an "Exorcist" on the possessed US-returned Vidya Balan, you wonder if there's a serious smirk secreted in the knee-jerk horror comedy.

Welcome to the house of horrors with the ghost of a wronged nautch girl cursing, abusing, singing and dancing in Bengali.

By the time the buck stops at Vidya, we've had enough of the Priyadarshan regular - from the reliable Mohan Joshi, to the insufferable Rasika Joshi, the unusually unfunny Rajpal Yadav and the 'loose-limbed' Paresh Rawal. Priyadarshan's patented parody fails to appeal - this time projected into a story that seems to endorse blind faith and black magic.

One wonders why Paresh is playing all these badly written characters these days?

"Bhool Bhulaiyaa" just makes you wish ghosts would haunt the people who thought up this piece of odd abomination.

As usual Priyadarshan spends a lot of time in detailing trivia, which finally adds up to much ado about absolutely nothing. The characters of the village are piled on for about 30 minutes of playing time. Another 30 minutes goes into introducing the wacky inmates of the ancestral house ... And that's when Akshay makes his entry.

The film is initially shot on the banks of the Ganga, but suddenly we see deserts and ethnic clothes.

But the one person who keeps you watching the film is Vidya Balan. As a woman possessed, she pours so much intense energy into her raging Kathak dance as the courtesan that you forgive Priyadarshan all his trespasses of vulgar excesses.

Vidya brings a great deal of charm, elegance and horrific angst to her part. As she swirls and twirls as the enraged dancer in a jealous king's court, she appears lovely in this distinctly un-lovely film.

The main High light of the film is the Music. The songs are just exhilarating. The title song is on the minds of every teenager. For the music review there is nothing to say other than "the best".

Director : Priya Darshan.

Cast : Akshay Kumar , Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal,Shiney Ahuja,Amisha Patel.

Producer : T-Series.

Music : Pritam.