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.

Om Shanti Om : Farah Khan

Shah Rukh Khan and Farah Khan’s OM SHANTI OM is a true-blue masala entertainer. If MAIN HOON NA was a four, this one hits a sixer!

Now let’s clear some myths surrounding OM SHANTI OM. Is it the 2007 adaptation of Subhash Ghai’s immensely likable reincarnation film KARZ? Does it have traces of KUDRAT? Or MADHUMATI? Or MILAN? Or KARAN ARJUN? Hold on, there’s a dash of KARZ, a bit of KARAN ARJUN, a sprinkling of KUDRAT, but beyond that it’s a film that makes you nostalgic about 1970s Bollywood.

To sum up, OM SHANTI OM is paisa vasool entertainment. We haven’t seen SRK in a hardcore masala film since quite some time. He had drifted to other genres, which proved his range as an actor of repute and cemented his status further. With OM SHANTI OM, he gives back to the audience what he himself grew up on — a thorough entertainer that will have the audience thirsting for more.

This Diwali, have a blast!

OM SHANTI OM tells the story of Om [Shah Rukh Khan] and Shanti [Deepika Padukone]. Om is a junior artist in the 70s. Shanti is the reigning superstar. He is her biggest fan. He is in love with her. Om dreams of being a superstar, but an incident changes his life forever.

Om dies in a mishap, but is reborn into the present day. He attempts to discover the mystery of his demise…

The first twist in the tale [Arjun - Deepika’s heated confrontation, with SRK listening to this important conversation] comes as a bolt from the blue. The second jhatka comes slightly before the intermission, when Arjun takes Deepika to the set of his film ‘Om Shanti Om’ and the entire episode that follows, right till the intermission, is spellbinding. That’s a brilliant stroke from the writing [screenplay: Mushtaq Shaikh and Farah Khan] as also the execution point of view. When the opulent set is set to flames, it leaves you wide-eyed and awe-struck. Such is the impact!

The post-interval portions only get better and better! If the initial portions are laced with humour [the premiere of ‘Dreamy Girl’, the Manoj Kumar episode, Ghai directing Rishi on ‘Om Shanti Om’ song, et al], the second half moves into a new zone completely.

It’s punar-janam now, but thankfully, there’re no lightening, no fireworks, no zooming of the camera on the idols of Gods. The drama builds up gradually. The voices that SRK keeps hearing, the ‘fire’ soon after the ‘Dard-E-Disco’ track, the mother [Kirron Kher], an old lady now, chasing Om’s car [reminds you of Raakhee of KARAN ARJUN], the flashes of SRK’s earlier birth while receiving the Filmfare Award — the incidents that make him realize that his life was cut short in his earlier janam have been well structured.

When Deepika re-emerges as well, the viewer is confused, but the mystery is resolved towards the end, which, again, takes you by complete surprise.

For the rest well you watch the movie and tell me. Ill not unravel the surprise.



Deepika has all it takes to be a top star — the personality, the looks and yes, she’s supremely talented too. Standing in the same frame as SRK and getting it right is no small achievement. She comes as a whiff of fresh air!


Cast : Shah Rukh Khan,Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade
Director : Farah Khan.
Producer : Gauri Khan.
Music : Vishal and Shekhar.

Saawariya : Sanjay Leela Bansali

Irrespective of how his films fare at the box-office, you cannot shut your eyes to the fact that Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films have so much to offer in terms of style and substance.Alas, SAAWARIYA is all style, no substance. When a director of the calibre of SLB attempts a love story, you expect to experience the various emotions that you generally associate with romance. Sadly, the emotions you experience while watching SAAWARIYA is sorrow and after the screening, anguish.

With splendid backers like Hollywood giant Columbia/Sony and a dream cast, Bhansali falters big time in SAAWARIYA. It doesn’t give you the feeling that you’re watching an SLB film or a film of epic proportions. Instead, you constantly feel that you’re watching a 2-hour play.

Dostoevsky’s short story WHITE NIGHTS may sound interesting on paper, but SLB’s adaptation suffers because there’s not much meat in the plot. In fact, it wouldn’t be erroneous to state that SAAWARIYA ranks amongst SLB’s weakest films, as far as scripting is concerned.

To cut a long story short, SAAWARIYA disappoints big time. You expect the moon from this genius film-maker, but you’re disheartened as you watch his new creation.

SAAWARIYA is about two young star-crossed lovers. A musician, Raj [Ranbir Kapoor], is certain that he has found his ultimate dream when he arrives at a picturesque town. However, destiny paints a different picture for Raj. One silent night, he spots a mysterious girl draped in black, standing alone at a bridge.

This chance encounter introduces him to Sakina [Sonam Kapoor], a shy and quiet girl, who continues to intrigue him. Thus follows the beginning of a new friendship, where Raj, with his most charming ways and an undying spirit, tries to win Sakina’s heart.

Raj is unable to accept her haunting past and their friendship pulls him into a whirlwind of desire, madness and romance.

SAAWARIYA suffers because of its writing mainly. Let’s unravel the points that bother the viewer no end…

Even if you subscribe to the theory that it was love at first sight for Salman and Sonam, what is it that keeps their romance going?

Why does Salman disappear suddenly? Besides his name, the girl knows nothing about him. Not his home/native place, work/profession/work place, relatives, nothing absolutely. It’s like falling in love with a shadow, isn’t it?

Why does Rani Mukerji abandon Ranbir, when he comes knocking on her doors and admits that he wants to spend time with her? Why does she lose her temper, although she secretly loves him?

And Salman returns. The sequence that follows and the culmination to the story leave you completely disgruntled and perplexed!

Now to the dream launches! Ranbir Kapoor is supremely talented, no two opinions on that. Yes, he looks handsome, but what you carry home is the sincerity in his performance. If that’s the [high] level of performance in his debut film, this lad will only make the Kapoor clan proud in years to come. It’s a 10 on 10 for this debutante!

Sonam Kapoor is an average actor. However, her role doesn’t give her the opportunity to display histrionics. She looks gorgeous at places, but plain ordinary at times.

Age has started showing on Salman Khan’s face. He looks like an old, mature man in this film. The boyish looks have gone! As for his role, he is completely wasted in this hardly-10-minute appearance. Rani Mukerji is first-rate. Zohra Segal is superb

On the whole, SAAWARIYA lacks soul. It’s SLB’s weakest film to date, in terms of writing.
Overall, disappointing — in terms of content and in terms of business as well!

Director : Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Cast : Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Salman Khan , Rani Mukherjee, Begum Para, Achla Sachdev.

Producer : SPE Films & SLB Films.

Music : Monty Sharma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Goin Hybrid.

Here is the new Honda 2007 CIVIC Hybrid. This is no ordinary car, the Specialty of this car is that it has Dual engines. A gasoline and an electric engine. This means More pocket Money. More savings. More GIrlFriends. Well jokes apart this hybrid engine actually works. The secret behind all this is a motor- generator action that kicks in every time u slow the vehicle down.
Fact: your car uses up twice the amount of fuel every time you accelerate the car from a stop.
For the first 20-30 kmph speed thee hybrid uses its electric motor and later the Gasoline engine. But the advantage is that the battery is charged with the regenerative action of the motor. Everytime you apply the brakes or slow down the vehicle a considerable amount of kinetic energy is lost. This energy is then used to recharge the battery POOF: More Mileage, MOre savings.
Lets talk something from the ecosystem point of view. Due to the electric motor the emission of green house gases is minimized and the dependence on fossil fuels is reduced by far. So I include it in the eco-friendly cars list.
Out of al the available hybrid cars my pick is the new HONDA 2007 CIVIC HYBRID. With stylish exterior and the branded HONDA engine inside this is a wonder on wheels. So the next time you buy a car Insist on a hybrid

Price : $22,600 (Ex-showroom price).
Accessories : Available.
Engines : Dual.
Mileage : Anywhere between 30-45 kmpl.
My Ratings : 8/10 **********.

ThumbWin- - Desktop Enhancer

Tired of looking at your boring desktop. Want to spice things up. Well here it is the THUMBWIN1.0. The thumbwin (TWIN) is a shell software that changes the way your computer looks. I am the one who is fed up of ALT+TAB ing to change applications. Twin makes thumbnails of ur applications and places them on the desktop. the special feature of this software is that it utilises extremely minimal resource and provides better performance and efficiency. A MUST active windows users.

These thumbs are especially helpful when you minimize so many applications that you spend too much time and waste too many clicks on finding each one of them. Using ThumWin, you'll find the right app just by taking a look at the thumbnails.

ThumbWin's settings allow you to select the size of thumbnails along with other details. Also, they don't seem to hog on resources at all. Bear in mind, however, that they only work if you minimize windows one by one. That is, there will be no thumbnails if you use the "Show desktop" button.



Click here to download the file
License : Freeware
OS : Win 98/ME/2000/XP
File size : 841 KB
Ratings : 3 out of 5 ***

XBOX- 360 Spartan

Yes you are right this is the Xbox 360. But this is no ordinary play machine. This is the limited Spartan edition of the Xbox. This is the most priced possession any High-end gamer wishes to have (those lucky *****). The Spartan edition is one of a kind piece meant to cherish. This is available in 2 fascinating colors -> Gold and Green and with the matching wireless joy-pads WELCOME TO THE GAMING DIMENSION ‘X’.

Well we know a lot about the XBOX-360. But what about its ancestors – the roots of the XBOX.

Here it is the "Big black box" that launched Microsoft into the era of console gaming. The inbuilt library functions make it indispensable to any gamer and not only that with the new addition of “XBOX LIVE” updating those out-dated games is only a click far away. Game on.