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Jailbreak iOS 4.0.1

2010-08-02T21:51:00.003+04:00

comex has released jailbreak for iOS 4.0.1 it works like charm.

Try following steps:
1) Syncronize your iPhone with iTune.
2) Open Safari from iPhone, go to jailbreakme.com or jailbreakme.modmyi.com
3) Slide and there you go!

If you are stuck at the purple screen, do following steps!!! (Only on 3GS or 4)

1) Double tap home button.

2) Press and Hold Safari to quit (in multitask mode)

3) put your iphone to "Airplane mode".

4) Go to - Setting - Safari - Accept Cookies select "Always".

5) Clear all Cache and cookies.

6) Put your iPhone back into wi-fi and/or 3G mode.

7) Open safari and go to "jailbreakme.modmyi.com"

8) If it doesn't work just repeat the steps

Did this on mine after trying for hours and worked like a charm.

Gamer [2009]

2009-10-16T08:45:00.005+04:00

Gamer [2009]

Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called "Slayers" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind (Hall).

Plot Summary Source: iMDb

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The Proposal [2009]

2009-10-16T08:37:00.004+04:00

The Proposal [2009]

Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company, Colden Books, who forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in order to avoid being deported to Canada. He grudgingly accepts, under the condition that he is promoted to the position of editor. When the government investigates, the two are forced to spend the weekend with his parents in Alaska in order to sell the lie. The family suggest they could marry the same weekend, and they reluctantly accept. They start to fall genuinely in love as they spend more and more time together. Because of this, during the wedding ceremony, Margaret decides she cannot do this to Andrew and confesses the business arrangement in front of everyone--including the immigration officer handling their case. She is then told that she has 24 hours to get back to Canada, and thus goes back to New York to pack her things. Upon doing so, however, Andrew shows up at the office and confesses his love for her in front of the entire office staff, proposing marriage all over again.

When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

Synopsis Source: iMDb

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The Hurt Locker (2008)

2009-08-30T07:04:00.007+04:00

Oscar Award Winner [2010] Movie

During the early months of the post-invasion period in Iraq, Sergeant First Class William James becomes the new team leader of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit with the U.S. Army's Bravo Company, replacing Staff Sergeant Thompson, who was killed by a remote-detonated improvised explosive device (IED) in Baghdad. He joins Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge, whose jobs are to communicate with their team leader via radio inside his bombsuit, and provide him with rifle cover while he examines an IED. James's insistence on approaching a suspected IED without first sending in a bomb disposal robot during their first mission together lead Sanborn and Eldridge to consider him "reckless". Back at Camp Victory, James befriends Beckham, a young Iraqi boy who works for a local merchant operating at the base. The team is next called out to the United Nations building in Baghdad, where a parked car has a large bomb in the trunk. While James intensively studies the intricate bomb, Sanborn and Eldridge provide him with cover. Sanborn becomes increasingly concerned about three men watching them from a minaret and another filming them from a nearby rooftop. With the building evacuated, he suggests to James that the they pull out and let a team of engineers come disarm the bomb. James ignores and angers Sanborn by removing his radio headset, and remains with the car until he disarms the device.

While returning from detonating bombs in the desert, the EOD team encounter a British private military company. They soon come under enemy attack, and three of the British mercenaries are killed in the ensuing firefight, which ends after Sanborn and James shoot the last of the insurgent snipers. For their next mission, the team heads to a warehouse to retrieve unexploded ordnance. While securing the warehouse, James discovers the dead body of a young boy who has been surgically implanted with an unexploded bomb. James is sure that it is Beckham, while Sanborn and Eldridge are not entirely certain. That night, James forces the merchant for whom Beckham worked to drive him to Beckham's house. Upon entering the house to which he is brought, James encounters an Iraqi professor and demands to know who was responsible for turning Beckham into a "body bomb". The professor thinks James is a CIA agent and calmly invites him to sit down as a guest of his household. A confused James is then forced out of the house by the man's wife, and sneaks back into Camp Victory with the help of a sympathetic guard. That same night, Eldridge is accidentally shot in the leg during a mission in which the EOD team successfully tracks down and kills two bomb makers. The next morning, James is approached by Beckham, who is alive and well. Much to Beckham's confusion, he is completely ignored by James. Eldridge blames James for his injury, claiming James unnecessarily put his life at risk just so that he could have an "adrenaline fix", referring to Sanborn's suggestion that the mission, which James had ordered, would be better suited for an infantry platoon.

With only two days left on their current tour, James and Sanborn are called in to assist in a situation where a man was forced to wander into a military checkpoint with a time-bomb strapped to his chest. James cannot remove the bomb nor disarm it in time, and is forced to flee before the bomb goes off. On the ride back to the base, Sanborn becomes emotional and confesses to James that he can no longer cope with the pressure of being in EOD, and relishes the prospect of finally leaving Iraq and starting a family. James is next seen back at home with his wife and child, visibly bored with civilian life. One night he has an internal monologue in the form of speaking aloud to his infant son, where he says that there is only "one thing" that he knows he loves. He is next seen back in Iraq, ready to serve another year as part of an EOD team with Delta Company. [D-Man2010]

The movie is a great character study of 3 different ranks in the army. One is the wild card with the "I can do anything" fatalistic attitude who has been enlisted for so long he can't interface with back home society. Another with an approach with caution we must stay safe attitude. And finally, the young kid who thinks experience is something you automatically have just because you're in Baghdad, yet when push comes to shove, he's a coward. Great guest appearances by Guy Pearce, David Morse, and Ralph Fiennes. In addition to storyline the weapons in it are top notch with one in particular being the Barrett 50 caliber sniper rifle. Excellent movie must see.

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

2009-08-29T07:51:00.005+04:00

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.

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2009-08-28T11:23:00.008+04:00

DISTRICT 9

The film opens with a documentary-style series of interviews that introduce the situation. Twenty years before, an alien ship is seen coming towards Earth and arrives above Johannesburg, South Africa. It hovers above the city for three months without any contact; eventually humans take the initiative and cut into the ship. They discover a large group of aliens who are malnourished and sick. The aliens are later assessed as apparently being all "workers", with their leadership mysteriously missing (it is hypothesized that a plague may have wiped out all of the leadership-caste). Grainy footage shows part of the ship (supposed to be a command module) falling to Earth, but nobody has been able to find it, leaving the ship inoperable.

The creatures, called "prawns" as a derogatory reference to the sea creature which they resemble, are housed in a government camp. The alien race's true name is never learned; they are primarily referred to as "prawns" or, more rarely, "non-humans". Overcrowding and militarization eventually turn the area into a slum known as District 9. A massive black market is set up between the aliens and a group of Nigerians primarily led by Mumbo, a paralyzed warlord. In addition to inter-species prostitution, the Nigerians exchange canned cat food for alien weapons, of which the cat food has a similar effect to catnip on the aliens.

The movie takes place in 2010. Patience over the alien situation has run out and control over them has been contracted to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company that shows little regard for the aliens' welfare. MNU is interested in using the aliens' advanced weaponry, but its integration with alien biology makes it useless for humans.

An MNU field operative named Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), is set with a task to move 1.8 million aliens to a new District 10 camp located 240 km from Johannesburg, with help from private security forces working for MNU. While inspecting a suspicious alien residence, Wikus handles an alien device which squirts a dark liquid into his face. He becomes very sick and collects the device as evidence.

A rapid transformation begins to occur, and shortly after exposure to the liquid, Wikus's left arm mutates into a claw exactly like that of a prawn. After collapsing at a surprise party in his house, and a doctor at a local hospital discovers his alien left arm, Wikus is taken into custody and a series of tests and experiments are performed on him; these reveal that his alien DNA allows him to operate alien weapons. The scientists discover that his DNA is currently "in balance" with the alien DNA, which is gradually taking over. They decide to harvest his body for biological material at this critical point, to have the greatest chance of replicating his ability to use alien technology in other humans later. To reduce any side-effects, no anesthetic was used. However, during the attempted vivisection Wikus escapes after overpowering his captors, and flees from MNU.

Wikus seeks refuge in the run-down shack of an alien called Christopher Johnson, who has a small son, the same alien who Wikus attempted to evict earlier, who created the alien device that infected Wikus. The device contains fuel that Christopher scavenged from various alien parts scattered around District 9. It is hinted that Christopher might be a surviving member of the prawn leadership caste, as he shows much more knowledge of how alien technology works, possesses or at least found the command module, and interacts with MNU officials more articulately than other aliens. Although initially hostile towards Wikus, Christopher eventually agrees to help him reverse the transformation if Wikus will retrieve the fuel from MNU labs. Christopher promises to undo the mutation by getting Wikus aboard the mother ship hovering over Johannesburg, and shows Wikus the ship's command module, which has been hidden under his shack.

Wikus steals some alien weaponry from Mumbo and his gang, with Mumbo vowing to capture Wikus and eat his mutated arm (his witch doctor believes this will give him the power to operate the alien weaponry). With Christopher's help they launch an assault on MNU and successfully retrieve the fuel sample. While there, Christopher discovers that MNU has been experimenting on his people. Wikus and Christopher fight their way back to District 9 and Christopher begins preparations to leave. He tells Wikus that he must first return to his home world to seek help for his people before he can cure Wikus. Furious, Wikus knocks Christopher unconscious and powers up the ship himself. The MNU mercenaries target Wikus and destroy one of the command module's engines, causing it to crash land inside District 9.

After Wikus is captured by MNU, a battle between the MNU mercenaries and Mumbo's gang breaks out. After a protracted firefight, the Nigerians capture Wikus. Just before Wikus' arm is chopped off, Christopher's son activates several systems in the mothership, including the autopilot routine of a mechanized battle suit; it slaughters Mumbo and his men after they fire on it. Wikus enters the alien walker battle suit, and after initially attempting to flee, returns and rescues Christopher. Armed with a lightning cannon, tracking missiles, and a high-powered machine gun, Wikus begins to fight the MNU men. After being knocked over by a anti-tank sniper round, he convinces Christopher to return to the shuttle without him, over Christopher's objections. Christopher promises Wikus that he will return in three years to repair his body. Christopher then boards the shuttle and activates a tractor beam which returns the command module to the mother ship.

Wikus is shot in the back and the walker suit ejects him. Wikus, heavily wounded, begins dragging himself away from the leader (and sole survivor) of an MNU squad, but is quickly caught. As Wikus prepares to die, aliens burst out of the surrounding slums and dismember the mercenary.

The film concludes with another series of interviews and news broadcasts, providing human opinions on the events that unfolded. The aliens are successfully moved to District 10, which now has a population of 2.5 million and is growing. One of Wikus' coworkers hacks MNU's database and publicly exposes their illegal genetic experiments. There are many differing theories on Wikus' fate. Some people believe that he either left on the mother ship, is in hiding, was captured by MNU or a government agency. Some interviewees hypothesize that the aliens are planning to return with a full army and declare war on humanity. An interview with Wikus' wife reveals a small metal rose was left on her doorstep (Wikus has earlier demonstrated his affection with handmade gifts). Her friends have told her that it could not have possibly been Wikus, but she appears unsure. In the final scene, an alien with a bandaged left arm is shown in a junk yard fashioning a rose out of scrap metal.

Source: iMDb

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A Guide to Converting iTunes to MP3

2009-08-28T10:49:00.001+04:00

It isn't hard to convert iTunes to MP3. As the following will show, you don't need a lot of technical expertise.

The Conversion Process for Non Protected Files

Start by opening iTunes. Go to Edit and click Preferences. Go to Advanced and choose Importing. Pick "Import using MP3 encoder". Save the changes. Go to the library and right click a file. There will be some options there.

Select the Convert Selection to MP3. If there isn't any protection, the conversion will take place. If it's protected, you'll see a message saying you can't convert the file. If that's the case, refer to the following.

Removing the File Protection

To convert iTunes to MP3, get a blank CD. Burn the iTunes in it. Make sure you record it as an audio CD. If you burn it as a data CD, the protection won't work. Be sure to utilize iTunes when accessing the CD. Now add as many tracks as can fit the CD. There will be a status bar indicating how much space is left on the disc.

Select the file. Choose the convert selection to MP3. If you have several files, use a CD emulator. This can be handy if you have plenty of files that need to be changed.
The Protection Method

The reason why people convert iTunes to MP3 is for accessibility. Those who are new to iTunes will be surprised to learn that they can't play it anywhere else.

MP3 have no protection. They can be played on any player, either on computers or portable types. The iTunes on the other hand are in AAC or M4P format. Under these formats, the tracks can't be played on anything but Apple players.

According to Apple, they instituted this reform to help preserve the sound. If you change it, the quality will suffer. Some consumers think it's unfair. But as shown above, there are ways you can go around it.

Using Software Conversion Tools

There are applications available to help you convert iTunes to MP3. Although you can change them in the manner suggested earlier, it can be tedious. If you have plenty of songs, this will be the easier way. Some are shareware and come with extra features. But if you just need a basic converter, there are free apps available.

Most of the time, these applications are easy to use. Often you just have to add the tracks and press convert or something similar. Depending on the software you use, this can take a few seconds or several minutes.

Probably the hardest part is actually looking for which software to use. Aside from going over reviews, you should assess your needs. Some allow for conversion of music files into different formats. Decide which ones you need.

Understanding how to convert iTunes to MP3 isn't too difficult. If you are going to do this, you just need to choose the right software. If you'd rather not download software, you just need to be a little patient. The point is you have plenty of options.
Please click these links if you want to know more about iTunes to MP3 or convert iTunes to MP3 in general.

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Never Back Down (2008)

2008-11-21T20:22:00.002+04:00

Jake Tyler (Sean Faris) helps his high-school football team win an important game. A frustrated player from the opposing team makes taunts about Jake's father, who died while driving drunk. Infamously-hot-tempered Jake starts a brawl with the opposing player. Spectators capture the brawl with mobile phones and video-cameras. Soon, the brawl is uploaded to YouTube.

Jake gets thrown off the team for brawling, but takes it in stride because he is leaving this school anyway. He and his younger brother Charlie (Wyatt Henry Smith) are moving with their widowed mom to Orlando, Florida where Charlie has received a tennis scholarship. The Tyler brothers are close despite Jake's penchant for fighting and getting into trouble, which greatly upsets their mom (Leslie Hope).

At his new school, Jake has a hard time fitting in. He catches the eye of Baja Miller (Amber Heard), a pretty classmate who flirts with him. Later, Jake notices fellow student Max Cooperman (Evan Peters) getting beaten up on campus. Jake rushes to Max's aid, only to discover that the "bullying" he disrupted was actually a street-kickboxing match. Everybody present, including Max, demands that the astonished Jake leave.

At school the next day, Max lets it be known that there are videos on the internet of Jake's football brawl, which has gained him a positive reputation on campus. Max invites Jake to come and learn mixed martial arts with his instructor, while Baja invites Jake to a party at her boyfriend Ryan McCarthy's mansion. Jake declines the former offer but accepts the latter. At McCarthy Manor that night, host Ryan (Cam Gigandet) - having seen the internet footage - challenges Jake to demonstrate his brawling prowess in a fight against...Ryan himself. When Jake refuses the challenge, letting Ryan know that Jake came to the party only because Baja invited him. Ryan kisses Baja in front of Jake to verify whose girlfriend she is. Jake realizes that he's being set up, and attempts to leave - until Ryan makes taunts about the disgraceful death of Jake's dad. An angry Jake accepts the challenge but is brutally defeated by Ryan. Baja appears disgusted with Ryan for continually beating on Jake, despite the fact that Jake was obviously down and out.

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Babylon A.D. (2008)

2008-11-09T12:00:00.003+04:00

Synopsis (from www.imdb.com)

A few decades in the future, a mercenary named Toorop (Vin Diesel) accepts a contract from a Russian mobster, Gorsky, who instructs him to bring a young woman only known as Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) to New York. In order to reach his goal, Gorsky gave Toorop a variety of weapons as well as a UN passport that has to be injected under the skin of the neck. Toorop, along with the girl and her guardian nun Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh), travel from the Noelite Convent where they lived across Russia to reach America.

The towns and cities of Russia have been turned into dangerous, over populated slums by war and terrorist activity, forcing Toorop, Aurora, and Rebeka to face dangers of the human element, all the while fleeing from an unknown group of mercenaries claiming to have been sent by Aurora's supposedly dead father. The stress of humanity's situation causes Aurora to act out in strange ways that neither Toorop, nor Rebeka can explain. On one such occasion, Aurora seemed, for no reason, to panic and run from a crowded train station, just before it was bombed.

Later, they were forced to board a submarine that carried refugees to Canada. There were too many refugees to take at once, so the submarine was forced to leave some behind, even if it came to shooting them. Aurora, infuriated by the loss of life, suddenly knew how to operate the thirty year old submarine, without having ever learned about it.

Sister Rebeka explains to Toorop that Aurora could speak nineteen different languages by the age of two, and always seemed to know things she had never learned. When, three months before leaving with Toorop, she had begun acting out in ways she never had before. This occurred after a visit by a Noelite doctor who had administered a pill to Aurora. The doctor told her to go to America, and arranged for Toorop to take them.

Once in New York, a news broadcast about the bombing of the Convent that Aurora and Rebeka hail from, caused the group to realize that there was more going on then they knew. Gorsky, working for the Noelites, had planted a tracking device in Toorop's passport, and then bombed the convent when he knew they were in America. The doctor who earlier saw Aurora in the convent then appears to examine her again. When he leaves, Aurora reveals (again without being told) that she is pregnant with twins, even though she was a virgin.

Looking outside, Toorop saw both Gorsky's men, as well as the Noelite group, heavily armed and waiting for them. The High Priestess then calls Toorop and asks him to bring Aurora outside. Just before they take her away, Toorop changes his mind and starts a firefight with the two groups with the ultimate goal of getting the two women to safety. However, because of the tracking devices, Gorsky's men can lock onto him with tracking rockets. Rebeka gets shot and killed defending Aurora, who in turn shoots Toorop saying the words "I need you to live." By dying, the rocket goes off target and hits Aurora instead.

Toorop's body was revived by Dr. Arthur Darquandier, using advanced medical techniques that involved replacing his right arm with cybernetics to undo the damage of being dead for over two hours. Darquandier explaines that when Aurora was a fetus, he genetically enhanced her by using a super computer to 'implant' intelligence into her brain. It is also implied that the Noelite group had him create Aurora to become pregnant at a certain time in order to use her as a 'virgin birth' for their religion.

After she was born, the Noelites had him assassinated, or so they thought. He remained 'dead' until he found his daughter in Russia with Toorop.

Doctor Darquandier then instructed Toorop to find Aurora before the Noelites could, which he does. Aurora dies giving birth to two children of two different colors, whom Toorop raises as his own.

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How To Check If Your Ipod Has A Virus

2008-11-09T09:55:00.000+04:00

After September 2006 a number of apple iPods had been shipped with a windows virus. Luckily for most mp3 and iPod users only a very small number are actually infected and this virus which only affects windows computers is called the RavMonE.exe virus. So, how do you check or remove this iPod virus?

Firstly if you have your ipod attached to your PC and have the latest anti virus software installed this should automatically detect and clean your pc/iPod of any virus present including the ravmone.exe virus. The iPod nano, shuffle and mac OS are not affected and the latest iPod video are also guaranteed to be virus free.

First steps to check if your pc or ipod is infected is to download a virus scanner (if you do not have one already installed), there are many free virus scanners available and most new PCs already have these automatically installed. In 99% of cases your iPod will be virus free but it is still best to check. Simply attach your ipod to your PC and run the virus scan.

Your anti virus software will then perform the checks and inform you of any viruses that are resident on your pc/iPod. After the removal of any viruses you should use the very latest version of i-tunes to reinstall the software on your iPod. The ravmone.exe virus is attracted to storage devices and you should also scan all storage devices on your PC just to be sure.

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Viruses Affecting MS Outlook

2008-11-09T09:50:00.001+04:00

Similar to other files, Outlook PST is also sensitive to the threatening viruses. These small programs are able to corrupt them and make them cry for PST repair. You may have heard that a message gets automatically sent to many, without any notification. Actually, depending upon the programming, sometimes viruses are directly targeted to corrupt PST, while few are intended to just make the application departed from its ideal functioning.

Few Outlook and PST affecting viruses are enlisted:

. BleBla: This was the one which attacked the Outlook HTML mail lacking. It was instructed to launch its payload.exe attachment, each time when the user opens the message. Work of this one is to get run whenever any program using an .exe file is attempted to start. The copy of itself is also sent in a reply to the messages in your Inbox.

. I LOVE YOU: This is the one which spreads through Outlook and Internet relay Chart via a VBScript file payload. The nature of this virus is quite destructive as this can also edit Windows registries along with adding, deleting and hiding the files.

. Stages Virus: This virus uses an uncommon file type called Shell Scrap Object. The Scrap files are those which can hide their nature from you and can appear any file type to you.

. Worm.ExploreZip: Successes propagation through e-mail attachments and affects Windows. This particularly attempts to delete the file content, which are

residing on local or mapped networked drives and those which are writable via SMB/CIFS file sharing.

. Melissa: This possess corrupted Word document as attachment and affects the documents having macros enabled.

The direct target of these viruses is your PST as Outlook is the doorway to them. But fortunately, for the corruption in the file, you can benefit the use of PST recovery applications which can scan the PST through the effective algorithms.

The corrupted PST can be made for Microsoft Outlook recovery under the condition of virus attack. On top of that, you can have it through the interactive interface and so no less technically skilled user will feel any difficulty.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair has the ability to scan PST most tactfully. This PST repair application repairs each of Outlook object like e-mails, journals, tasks, notes, appointments and others.

You can use this PST recovery tool in any case of corruption and hence can avail Microsoft Outlook recovery. The user will be pleased to use this software through the most intuitive interface.

Moni work as a freelancer and researcher of data recovery & Partition Recovery Software.

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The Love Guru (2008)

2008-11-08T13:22:00.003+04:00

Synopsis (from www.imdb.com)

Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), the star player of the Toronto Maple Leafs, is suffering from stress because his wife, Prudence Roanoke (Meagan Good), has left him for Jacques "Le Coq" Grandé (Justin Timberlake). The stress causes his hand to shake, which affects his hockey performance. Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) enlists the support of Guru Maurice Pitka (Mike Myers) to help Darren with his stress so that the team can hopefully break their losing streak. In addition to getting a considerable payment, Pitka would be invited to Oprah Winfrey's show, which he hopes would help him become the #1 guru, a place currently held by Deepak Chopra. Pitka succeeds, but feels no need anymore to become #1, more important is his love for Bullard. However, in connection with a vow Guru Tugginmypudha gave him a chastity belt. He returns to him to have it removed. Tugginmypudha agrees that it can be removed now, and explains how to do that; to Pitka's surprise no key is needed.

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Hancock (2008)

2008-11-08T08:16:00.003+04:00

Synopsis (from www.imdb.com):

John Hancock (Will Smith) is an unhappy and reluctant superhero who is living in his own world. For some unknown reason, Hancock is depressed and has started drinking very heavily. He has saved many lives in Los Angeles over the years, but in doing so, he has no regards for damaging buildings, trains, roads, cars, or anything that gets in his way of getting the job done. The last time he captured several criminals, it cost the city $9 million to fix the damages. The public has had enough of Hancock, and they want him to stop or go to another city. Then one day, Hancock saves the life of Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) from being run over by a train. Ray is a public relations executive who now can go home to his wife and child, because Hancock was there. Ray owes Hancock his life, and he makes it his mission to change his superhero's image and have the public cheering him. Ray's wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), believes Hancock cannot be fixed, and she doesn't want Ray to be hurt. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

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The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

2008-11-06T12:19:00.004+04:00

Synopsis (from www.imdb.com)

In Forbidden Kingdom, American teenager Jason (Michael Angarano), who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kungfu classics, finds an antique Chinese staff in a pawn shop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King (Jet Li). With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself transported back to ancient China.

There, he meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan (Jackie Chan); an enigmatic and skillful Silent Monk (Jet Li); and a vengeance-bent kungfu beauty, Golden Sparrow (Crystal Liu Yi Fei), who lead him on his quest to return the staff to its rightful owner, the Monkey King - imprisoned in stone by the evil Jade Warlord (Collin Chou) for five hundred years. Along the way, while attempting to outmaneuver scores of Jade Warriors, Cult Killers and the deadly White Hair Demoness, Ni Chang (Li Bing Bing), Jason learns about honor, loyalty and friendship, and the true meaning of kungfu, and thus frees himself.

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Tropic Thunder (2008)

2008-11-05T16:49:00.004+04:00

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Synopsis (From www.imdb.com)

A commercial depicts rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) promoting his two brands: the "Booty Sweat" energy drink and "Bust-A-Nut" candy bar, while performing his hit song, "I Love Tha' Pussy". The first trailer shows action star Tugg Speedman's (Ben Stiller) latest film, 'Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown', a film so repetitive of it's five predecessors that even the trailer narrator sounds shaky about it. Another trailer features funnyman Jeff "Fatty" Portnoy (Jack Black), playing the entirety of "America's favorite obese family" in the highly flautlent 'The Fatties: Fart 2'. The final trailer, entitled 'Satan's Alley', features Australian "five-time Oscar winner" Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) and Tobey Maguire (as himself) as two monks who begin an empassioned affair.

We are taken, via the narration of John "Four Leaf" Tayback (Nick Nolte), into a gruesome battle of the Vietnam War. This is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder', a big budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). To play his character, Sgt. Osiris, an African American, Lazarus has dyed his skin dark and refuses to break character from Osiris. A take of Osiris crying over Tayback's (played by Speedman) blown-off hands is ruined when Speedman is unable to cry and Lazarus dribbles uncontrollably into Speedman's face. This causes great frustration for the film's director, Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan). The chaos is further exacerbated when the film's pyrotechnics expert, Cody (Danny R. McBride), mistakes Cockburn's conniptions for a go to set off several expensive explosions.

We learn, via Access Hollywood, that Speedman's career has been on a downward spiral. In an attempt at Oscar-bait, Speedman had played the "retard" title character in the flop, 'Simple Jack', apparently considered one of the worst films of all time. Much to the horror of Speedman's agent, Rick "Pecker" Peck (Matthew McConaughey), Speedman doesn't even have TiVO on location. Elsewhere, Cockburn is berated in a meeting, via satellite TV, by studio head, Les Grossman (Tom Cruise). With filming a month behind schedule only five days into shooting, the media has dubbed the production "the most expensive war movie never made". Cockburn tries to explain that the primadonna stars are what's dragging the production down, but Grossman is not sympathetic. Later, the real "Four-Leaf" Tayback, takes Cockburn aside and suggests that he drop the actors in a real jungle and use Cody's explosive to inspire real fear in them. Cockburn enthusiastically agrees.

Speedman, Lazarus, Chino, Portnoy and Sandusky are dropped off with Cockburn in the middle of the jungle who sternly explains that he's going to use hidden cameras ("guerrilla-style") to capture real fear as they survive the real jungle. The actors are only given a map and a scene listing to guide them to the helicopter waiting at the end of the jungle. Just as he walks away, Cockburn is blown to pieces by an old landmine. The actors, with the exception of Lazarus, are convinced that this is some of Cockburn's special effects trickery. Unbeknownst to the actors, they were dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of the heroin-producing Flaming Dragon gang. The Dragons believe the actors to be DEA agents and are put off to see Speedman, trying to convince the others that Cockburn's death is a trick, doing a gruesome display with Cockburn's severed head. Believing the Dragons to be actors playing Vietcong, the actors engage them in a gunfight (though the actors only have blank rounds). Tayback and Cody, waiting on a nearby ridge and unaware of the real dangers below, blow a large explosive that causes the Dragons to retreat. After the "fight scene", the actors continue into the jungle to continue the "shoot". Tayback and Cody attempt to locate the now-deceased director. As the two argue and struggle (it is revealed that Tayback still has hands), they are surrounded and captured by the Dragons.

The actors continue their rigorous trek through the jungle. It is revealed that Portnoy is a heroin addict, a drug which he disguises from the others as candy. One night, a bat swoops down and steals Portnoy's heroin. Speedman and Lazarus clash as Speedman insists on holding the map and continuing to do scenes. Lazarus berates Speedman for his acting in 'Simple Jack'. Meanwhile, Chino grows angry at Lazarus for continuing to offensively "act black" as he stays in character. After Lazarus steals the map from Speedman, Sandusky (the only one with boot camp training) reveals by looking at the map that Speedman has been leading them the wrong way the whole time. The group splits from Speedman, who insists on continuing on his way. In captivity, Tayback reveals to Cody that he has never left the U.S. before, and originally wrote the book as a tribute.

Speedman's sanity seems to be slipping as he continues to act scenes from the film and even, much to his own distress, kills a Giant Panda one night. Speedman is soon captured by the Dragons and taken back to their camp. When he is tormented by the gang's prepubescent leader, Speedman stutters and is soon recognized as the star of 'Simple Jack'. This turns out to be the only film the Dragons have seen and they are in awe. The force Speedman to perform the film many times a day. Speedman even gets a young hanger-on, a "son" of sorts. The Dragons call Peck, Speedman's agent, and explain that they are holding Speedman ransom. Peck brings this to Les Grossman, who rabidly curses at the Dragon on the other end of the line. He later tells Peck that they can benefit more by collecting the insurance claim on Speedman's death, offering the torn agent a share of the profits.

Meanwhile, among the actors, tension grows between Lazarus and Chino. Portnoy has begun to hallucinate due to his withdrawal, and has to be tied to a water buffalo and then, at his own insistance, a concrete column. Soon, Portnoy is pleading with others to untie him. During a conversation about women "back home", Sandusky expresses envy of Lazarus having dated Jennifer Love Hewitt. In the course of the conversation, Chino is revealed to be a closet homosexual (he is in love with someone named "Lance"). They soon stumble upon the Flaming Dragon's heroin factory. After seeing Speedman being tortured, they plan an ambush based on the film's plot line.

Lazarus impersonates a farmer who has caught Portnoy (again tied to his water buffalo) in his farm, distracting the armed guards as Chino and Sandusky sneak into the building the captives are held in. After the gang notices inconsistencies in Lazarus' story, the actors open fire on the gang, temporarily subduing them despite being armed with only special effects blanks. Portnoy kidnaps the gang's child leader from the fray in order to be led to the drugs. After barely defeating the young crime lord in combat, he finds an enormous mound of heroin; however, reflecting upon his failing low-brow movie career, he rejects the heroin and uses it instead to knock out two guards. Tayback and Cody join the fighting, using Cody's flamethrower and explosives against the Dragons.

However, Portnoy, Chino, and Lazarus find Speedman brainwashed. After he's performing to an approving crowd several times a day, he now believes he is home. Before they can snap him out of it, Lazarus breaks down, revealing his similar inner-struggle with his own identity. With Chino and Sandusky's help, Lazarus drops the Sgt. Osiris character, in both make-up and accent, and becomes his Australian self. However, even Sandusky's inspiring words cannot break Speedman's trance and they have to drag him away as they attempt to escape in Cody and Tayback's recaptured helicopter. The Dragons quickly rejoin, chasing the actors across a bridge which is rigged to detonate by Cody. Speedman asks to remain behind with his "family", but quickly returns with his "son" stabbing him in the neck and the murderous Dragons in pursuit. Tayback detonates the bridge just in time for Speedman to get across. Lazarus goes to rescue Speedman from the rubble. They swear each other's friendship and Speedman is finally able to cry. However, just as they get in with the others to the helicopter, the prepubescent Dragon leader appears with a rocket launcher. As he shoots at the helicopter, Speedman's agent "Pecker" inexpicably appears with Speedman's TiVO and deflects the rocket with it.

A documentary of the botched production is made from the hidden camera footage, and results in a multiple Academy Award-winning blockbuster film. The film breaks Speedman's streak of flops and he wins the award for Best Actor, presented by his friend Lazarus. Along with Portnoy, Sandusky is present with Jennifer Love Hewitt on his arm and Chino is present with Lance Bass (the "Lance" of earlier) on his arm. Len Grossman does a hip-hop dance in celebration of the hit.

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Anaconda III (2008)

2008-11-04T19:24:00.007+04:00

They Can Taste Your Fear

A mercenary-for-hire accepts a mission from a billionaire to capture a dangerous snake that could possibly help cure a terminal illness.

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MP3: Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar (2007) Hindi Movie

2008-10-30T19:22:00.005+04:00

Delhi-based Rohan Sood lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his businessman dad, Shekhar, and mom, Renu. He attends St. Lawrence High School and is friendly with Vasu, Sudhir and Javed, and together the friends land in hot water virtually everyday. Then everything changes when he first sets eyes on heart-achingly beautiful new student, Ayesha Mehra, who was born in London, England, and also lives a wealthy lifestyle with her mom, Sheetal, and businessman dad. Both Rohan and Ayesha are attracted to each other and decide to go on a Karaoke date - with disastrous results as both end up in a vehicle accident. Their relationship sours with rumors of Ayesha being attracted to Shantanu and Rohan dating Simran, and both part ways. Ayesha and her mom decide to go to Paris to visit Parminder and her husband, Tony. Realizing that he now loves Ayesha, Rohan decides to travel to Paris, clear the misunderstanding, and win her over. In order to do this he misuses his dad's credit card to book an air-ticket, as well as forges school documents to show that he is attending the Math Olympiad. He does reach Paris but is unable to locate Ayesha. When he approaches the Indian Embassy, he is detained and may well be deported back home to possibly face his angry dad and school authorities.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

2008-10-23T20:07:00.004+04:00

A science professor whose radical theories have completely tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two explorers find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. And so they go on a quest to find out what has happened to the scientist's missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discovers a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There they discover a bizarre landscape filled with terrifying creatures.

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Taken (2008)

2008-10-17T12:29:00.004+04:00

The film follows an ex-CIA "Preventer", who is faced with recovering his daughter after she is kidnapped by human trafficking|sex-traffickers in Paris, France.

Bryan (Liam Neeson), a former secret agent living in the US. He is skilled in hand to hand combat, divorced; and loves his 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who lives with his ex-wife and her new husband Stuart (Xander Berkeley). Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy), and together follow U2's European tour. Kim's mother allows this, but Kim also needs permission from her father. Since Kim fears that Bryan will not consent, she pretends that they will only stay in Paris. Reluctantly, Bryan agrees.

In Paris a seemingly friendly young man named Peter (Nicolas Giraud) proposes to share a taxi with them to the house where Kim and her friend are staying, and so they do. However, the man works for an Albanian Mafia|Albanian criminal organization, to which he reports the address.

In the house, after a few minutes Kim receives a phone call from her father, where she then goes to the bathroom. She then sees from the bathroom window, men entering the room and abducting Amanda. Bryan is able to gain critical information about the kidnappers in the final moments after Kim is kidnapped by telling her to shout out everything about them that she notices. Briefly Bryan talks to one of the kidnappers, telling him that if they let his daughter go he will not pursue them, before the man smashes his daughters phone.

Using his contacts in the CIA and the business connections of his ex-wifes husband, Bryan travels to Paris to find her, informed that the kidnappers are sex-slavers and that he has only 96 hours to recover his daughter before she will disappear forever. The particular kidnapper he talked is revealed to be an Albanian named Marco.

Under the eye of Jean-Claude, himself a former operative and now deputy director of Internal Security, Bryan locates the kidnappers, first by using the digitial photos off the smashed remains of Kims phone to locate Peter who is later killed while Bryan pursues him. By hassling prostitutes Bryan is threatened by an Albanian mobster and is able to plant a covert listening device on him. Using a translator he finds that the kidnappers have a brothel in a nearby construction site.

Once arriving, Bryan acts like a customer, and after making his way inside begins to search for Kim. Unfortunately, he only finds her jacket, on another woman. He then is discovered and has to escape with the girl.

Nursing the girl back to health from an involuntary drug addiction, Bryan finds out where the kidnappers took her after she was abducted. Bryan heads to the address, and though he doesn't find Kim, he does find Marco, subduing him and killing most of the kidnappers. He searches for Kim, but instead finds Amanda, handcuffed to a bed and dead due to a heroin overdose. Torturing Marco, Bryan is able to ascertain that Kim was sold to a man named Saint Clair.

Bryan visits Jean-Claude's home and its dinner time there. However Jean, failing to have Bryan arrested for the mess he has caused at Paris, carries his gun to the dinner table. Jean angrily points the gun at Bryan when accused of complicity in his daughters abduction. Bryan has already unloaded the gun and shoots Jean's wife on her arm and, holding Jean, discovers the location of Saint Clair from him.

Acting as a police officer he gains entry to the building where new girls are being sold. When he sees his daughter being sold, he forces one of the buyers to purchase her, but is captured and knocked unconscious moments later. Suspended from the ceiling, Saint Clair questions his identity before leaving his security guards to execute him. Bryan escapes and kills them before finding Saint Clair, murdering him after learning that his daughter is being taken by Arab clients. Bryan manages to track down the car his daughter is being taken in and finds out that she is taken away on a large motorboat. He jumps on to the ship from a bridge and eliminates all the people inside, finally freeing his daughter.

Back in the US, Kim is reunited with her mother. Bryan introduces her to a pop Diva (Holly Valance) whom he saved at the beginning of the film from a knife attack while working security, Kim having an audition with the Divas vocal coach.

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Speed Racer (2008)

2008-10-13T22:01:00.003+04:00

The story begins with Speed Racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car racing rally that took the life of his older brother, Rex Racer. Speed is loyal to the family business, run by his parents Pops and Mom. Pops designed Speed's car, the Mach 5. The owner of Royalton Industries makes Speed a lucrative offer, Speed rejects the offer, angering the owner. Speed also uncovers a secret that top corporate interests, including Royalton, are fixing races and cheating to gain profit. With the offer to Speed denied, Royalton wants to ensure that Speed will not win races. Speed finds support from his parents and his girlfriend Trixie and enters The Crucible in a partnership with his one-time rival, Racer X, seeking to rescue his family's business and the racing sport itself

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10,000 BC (2008)

2008-10-12T21:56:00.008+04:00

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

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Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Crystal Skull (2008)

2008-10-09T21:43:00.002+04:00

Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls

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Horton Hears A Who! (2008)

2008-10-08T21:53:00.005+04:00

One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, "After all, a person is a person, no matter how small."

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How Do You Improve the Performance of Your PC?

2008-10-05T22:12:00.002+04:00

Machines make our life easier particularly the computers. It is a very good investment and it lessens the workload. But due to frequent use and the amount of job given to the computer, it sometimes results in registry errors, slow performance, crashes, freezes, and a lot more. This is the time that you should scan your system with a registry cleaner.

Windows errors and slow PC performance are just some of the problems that your encounter with registry errors. You definitely need a registry cleaner to solve this problem. Otherwise you have to suffer the crashes and freezes of your system. Unsuccessful installation, incomplete removal and spyware and viruses create broken down drivers and errors in the windows registry lessening its performance. You cannot totally remove these errors without using registry repair tool. The registry cleaner will routinely scan your PC for lost, obsolete and unwanted entries. It will fix the errors which will result to faster computer performance. If you will do anything about the registry problem of your PC, the problem will become more serious leading to worse errors like programs not responding and system crashes and freezes.

Do not try to fix the registry errors manually because it is a tedious task and the risk that it may result to even more problems is high. A reliable registry cleaner is what you need to uncomplicate matters of your system. By using a registry cleaner you minimize the risk of crashes and freezes which can lead to the total damage of your system.

Richard A. Woods is a Senior Computer Programmer and Analyst for the last 18 years. Find out which is the Best Registry Cleaner to get your computer working at top speed!

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Hard Disk Data Recovery is Possible - Here's How to Get Back Your Files

2008-10-04T22:32:00.001+04:00

Hard disk data recovery is probably not something you even think about until it happens to you. Once it does, you will quickly become familiar with all of the various techniques that can be used to retrieve your lost data.

But before you jump right in, you need to understand the difference between physical and logical damage to your drive. Once you understand this you will have a much better idea of how to proceed. You can begin narrowing down hard disk data recovery solution choices available to choose from.

Clarifying the technical terms

Logical damage is when no mechanical problems exist with your media. If this is the case, you may be able to use a hard disk data recovery software to reclaim your data.

If you are dealing with physical damage to your hard drive, you may have noticed strange, warning noises coming from your drive. If you suspect that this is the problem, shut it off immediately and do not use any software utility to recover the data no matter what. For safety reasons it is best to contact a qualified hard disk recovery specialist for more information.

Hard disk data recovery utilities

Cheap, fast and efficient are only a few of the benefits you may experience using a software recovery tool successfully. But in order to get the best results, you need to know how to find the best program for your situation. Retail marketers have broken down the full-scale hard disk data recovery utilities to sell the components separately in order to make more money. What they have also done is create a situation that easily confuses the average computer user.

The easiest way to tell the difference between all of the products available on the market is by paying attention to the price. If the price falls under seventy five dollars USD, you have an undelete utility. Prices between seventy five dollars and one hundred twenty five dollars USD are full-version hard drive recovery software. You will even find a solution costing several hundred dollars. Products in this price range are generally used by technicians for data recovery, and some individuals use them as well.

Explaining differences in service

Hard disk data recovery applications are not the answer for every data recovery situation. The same goes for choosing a data recovery specialist or computer repair technician. There are pro and cons for each choice.

Your local computer tech may know about disk recovery and even have some entry-level success recovering data. The main benefit you may experience when you hire a tech, is that they are easily accessible in your neighborhood, and their rates are much lower than what data recovery experts charge for performing recovery tasks.

If you are dealing with hard disk recovery, you have probably done all you can do to recover your data on your own. If you choose to allow your local computer shop to give it a try, make sure to ask the technician to give you a sector image of your media before they begin the recovery process. The reason for this important step is that most technicians rush into the recovery phase quickly, unaware of the problems it could cause your business if something goes wrong. Once you get an image of your data, you can safely allow them to perform data recovery tasks on the other drive. You must insist that they make moves to protect your data by giving you a copy, no matter what.

Going with the experts

Professional data recovery experts practically eat and sleep hard disk data recovery. They may also be skilled at computer forensics which is beyond the abilities of the average computer generalist. It isn't easy to find expert hard disk data recovery experts since there are so few available in the industry. Searching online can make things even more confusing because a search for hard disk data recovery can pull up thousands of results with no distinction between local technicians and the expert firms.

The only way to know who you are dealing with is by calling. You don't need to know any technical terms, you just need to ask whether they produce and sell hard disk data recovery products in addition cleanroom data recovery services. If this is the case, you have reached an expert recovery firm. Local technicians will usually offer a menu of additional computer related services. When you know exactly what to look for, it helps make finding a hard disk data recovery professional to handle your data a lot easier.

Ken Roberts offers hard disk recovery data advice for those in need. You can find his software and services and a lot of other hard drive recovery information at his website. Ken can be reached by phone at 800-444-3225 for interviews and questions about recovery.

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Speed Up Photoshop CS3

2008-10-02T22:52:00.002+04:00

To speed up Photoshop CS3, one should understand that its speed is affected most by the available RAM memory as well as the computer processor speed. But those aren't just the factors that affect performance. There are other things as well like the options you have selected, the workflow, your operating system as well as your hardware configuration. Optimizing your operating system as well as your hardware configuration would not only help speed up Photoshop CS3 but improve the performance of your applications as well.

Photoshop CS3 supports many new image dimensions as well as files and as such it requires more advanced system performance when compared to its predecessor. The maximum file size that it can support is 300,000 x 300,000 pixels, except for PDF files because those are still constrained by the 30,000 x 30,000 pixel limitations.

So, what can you do to speed up Photoshop CS3? Look below for some tips.

The options you select as well as the plug-ins that you use in Photoshop greatly affects its performance, the ones which affect it the most are the ones listed here.

Setting Scratch Disks

What is a scratch disk? A scratch disk is similar to a virtual memory in a Mac OS. So for the best performance possible, you must set the primary scratch disk to an already defragmented hard drive that is not used to run the operating system as well as having a good amount of unused space. It should also have a fast read and write speed.

Adjust Cache Levels

Photoshop makes use of image caching to draw high resolution pictures faster on-screen. To enable the Cache Levels options, specify the number of low resolution versions you want Photoshop to store or cache. The more versions you save the slower Photoshop would open the files. The default setting for this is 6 but you can go lower by choosing a number between 1-8. Setting it to the lowest possible would help increase and speed up Photoshop CS3 performance.

Minimizing Palette Preview Thumbnails

Photoshop uses extra memory to display the thumbnail previews in the layers, paths and channels palettes so the more preview thumbnails that Photoshop displays and the larger their size, the more memory is being used to draw and update them. To minimize these previews, click on Palette Options from the Palette pop-up menu then select the smallest size or none for the thumbnail size and then click OK.

Dragging and dropping files

Dragging and dropping in between layers of files is way more efficient than when you are copying and pasting them. Dragging files bypasses the clipboard and directly transfers the data. Copying and pasting on the other hand would involve more transferring of data and takes more time.

By customizing the system you can help speed Photoshop cs3. You can also do this by increasing the amount of memory allocated to Photoshop you can do this by closing applications that you are not using or by disabling extensions that aren't significant.

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What is the Excellent Free Registry Cleaner?

2008-10-02T12:34:00.001+04:00

Before you download a particular registry cleaner, do your research on it first. Just because it is free means that you can download as many cleaners as you want. You might ending up using the wrong ones. Almost all of these will fix your registry. However, it is important to make use of the one that has the feature of backing up your registry in cases of emergency. Choose also the one that utilizes automatic scans in certain intervals. It can be really infuriating when the computer starts to move sluggishly and errors start to pop up here and there. These are just some of the reasons why one should periodically scan the system.

What is the registry? The registry is the central database that stores configurations of the hardware and the software that are contained in your system, as well as other profile settings. These are all stored in the registry in the form of keys and are therefore called registry keys. As changes are made to your computer, the keys are updated, changed, added. But when you remove a software, hardware, or a program, the keys are not totally removed. There are still fragments that are left in your computer. Over time, keys are added to your registry. They pile up, increase the size of the registry, and many of them become redundant and obsolete files. The system will process information from the registry constantly and when it read the old redundant files, there will be some problems with regard to the functionality of your system. Some problems that you might encounter will include corrupted DDL, missing files, and unused start menu items. If you will not scan your system, build up of these unused files will lead your system to crash.

RegCure is highly recommended because of its scanning abilities. It will surely repair the errors in your system and make it work faster.

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My Computer is Running Too Slow - How Can I Fix it For Free?

2008-09-23T23:26:00.002+04:00

Because computers are only made by humans, it is expected that some problems can occur upon their usage. After all, humans are known to be prone to error and their products inherit this trait. Most people encounter problems with the way their computers work overtime. After a while, computers tend to run slow. In fact, my computer is running too slow and I have taken to research what I can do to solve this problem. If you are facing the same dilemma, then read on and find out what I have learned.

There are many ways with which you can speed up your computer. The first thing you need to do is to accept that there is a problem and that it can be solved. When I first noticed that my computer is running too slow, I waved it away and chalked it up to my computer's age. Although the struggling speed bothered me, I continued to ignore it until a friend called my attention and told me there are things I could actually do to quicken my computer's processing capabilities.

That was when I got unsolicited but very good advice. I learned that to speed up my computer, I had to uninstall or remove programs that are unnecessary or unused. If you don't know how to do this, just visit your computer's control panel and use the add/remove program you can find in that section. If you're thinking, "My computer is running too slow," this simple, free task should do the trick, coupled with cleaning out your computer's trash bins. Believe me, many people (I used to be one of them) tend to take their trash bins for granted, not knowing that emptying them is one of the easiest ways to speed up a slow computer. Check out your trash bins and keep them from becoming full or even halfway full to maintain your computer's good speed.

When I acknowledged the fact that my computer is running too slow, I looked for relevant articles on the web. One of the most common tips I came across with was to remove any form of malware, as well as spyware, on my computer. Malware is the most frequent reason why computers slow down; this dangerous software can wreak havoc on your computer and cause stubborn or, worse, permanent damage. Spyware, on the other hand, can put your identity and safety at risk and leak sensitive data from your computer to third parties. There are tried and tested solutions you can employ to remove malware and spyware from your computer, including downloading and installing free programs such as Spybot Search and Destroy and Lavasoft. However, be wary of the free programs you find online. Some are only made up of advertising baloney and do not really work or are also made up of dangerous software.

Most people think that it takes a lot of money to repair and improve their computer's speed. That's what I thought too when I first realized that my computer is running too slow. Now, I know better, thanks to the free tips I just shared with you.

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Why Does Spyware Exist?

2008-09-19T14:05:00.002+04:00

In the following article I will explain what exactly Spyware is, what its purpose is, whether it's legal and what free anti-Spyware programs you can use to prevent infection on your computer.

Why Does Spyware Exist?

Spyware is the annoying neighbour next door who just won't be quiet. Spyware can change certain settings on your computer, namely your Internet home page, monitor keystrokes that you type on your computer, spy on other applications on your computer and install other spyware [or even worse] programs without your knowledge.

The Spyware program will then relay the information back to the spyware author who can use the information for good, advertising purposes or evil [hint, its either for advertising or evil]. Spyware will ultimately slow down your computer and especially the Internet connection as it watches over what you do records information and reports on what you do. This strains the computer. So if your computer has become sluggish or is slowing down, Spyware could be the cause of it.

Is Spyware Legal?

In a word no. Spyware is illegal, as any type of software installed onto your computer without your knowledge is not legal. Although some spyware does come bundled with legitimate programs that mention the spyware in the small print, but in such a way that skirts around the fact that spyware will be installed onto your computer.

Shareware or freeware programs can be the main culprits when Spyware 'legally' appears on your computer. You agree to the Spyware being installed onto your computer when you agree the EULA [end user license agreement]. So be careful when installing programs onto your computer, especially share/freeware and check the EULA for the agreements before installing the program.

Wikipedia states "Unauthorized access to a computer is illegal under computer crime laws, such as the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act and similar laws in other countries".

What Can I Do To Protect My Computer From Spyware?

As I said above, most Spyware will infect your computer from shareware or freeware programs. Your computer can also be infected via programs pretending to be anti-Spyware programs, when in-fact they are Spyware programs in their own right.

The other main way of insuring that your computer will become infected is to download software programs from torrent sites. Many pieces of software available 'illegally' will contain all sorts of nasty additional files, such as Trojans, Viruses and Spyware. So if you download programs this way, seriously think is it worth the hassle if your computer does become infected?

Be careful clicking on any pop-ups or clicking on links to 'free' programs as these occasionally will lead you to a website that will tempt you to download a handy free program that you will regret.

Recommended Anti-Spyware Programs?

For free recommended anti-Spyware programs I strongly recommend the following below. All of them do have a paid for version that will find more Spyware infections from a larger database and some offer real-time protection. I have found that the free versions suffice for me, however a paid for program that offers real-time protection will ensure that you prevent infections rather than cure them.

Spyware Doctor Starter Edition
Super Anti-Spyware
Ad-Aware Free 2008
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

For Internet browsing, you may already use Firefox. If not download it now!! Firefox is a much safer browsing program which can prevent many infections. Another benefit of it is that it's quicker and more scaleable than Internet Explorer.

Summary

Spyware is a hassle when you use a windows based machine, and other than switching over to Linux or a Mac, unfortunately it's something you have to suffer. By taking some and hopefully, all of the advice above and installing anti-Spyware programs and using Firefox you should reduce the amount of Spyware files you encounter.

Want to discover more tips and secrets that can speed up and protect your computer for free? Then check out author's online blog at http://www.john-french.net/

John French has been breaking, repairing and building computers for over 15 years. He has expertise in computer security and maintaining a healthy computer.

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Microsoft Outlook - Make the Most of It

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Isn't it annoying? You're looking at next month's calendar to schedule a meeting with a client, you go to their contact record for their phone number, and when you go back to the calendar, it's re-set to today. You have to do extra clicks to get back to the date you were looking at. Same thing happens if you pull up a contact, then go to your calendar, tasks, or email. When you return to contacts it goes to the beginning of the alphabet, and you have to hunt again for the correct contact.

Here's the solution. In the navigation pane on the far left, right-click on the new folder you want to go to, then left-click on "Open in New Window" in the submenu. It opens a new window on top of the existing one which remains open underneath. Drag one window over, and you can view both contacts and the calendar (or the taskpad, or whatever) side-by-side. If you want to view multiple contacts and dates you can keeping opening new windows - your only limit is the size of your monitor.

Use Your Inbox as a To-Do List

This one is more of a time management tip that applies to any program you use for email, not just Outlook. Most people, once they've deleted unneeded emails, simply leave the 'keepers' in their Inbox. This can lead to serious email overload. An acquaintance of mine has over 8,000 emails in her Inbox!

Instead, create folders to store emails you must keep. The result - your Inbox only holds new messages and those you still need to act on; everything else has been filed away. Your Inbox becomes an extension of your To-Do list. This improves productivity and reduces the number of things that "fall through the cracks."

See the Entire Day and Evening at a Glance

Would you like to see all your day and evening hours on the calendar without having to scroll until your wrist hurts? Here's how: Right-click on calendar background. (You can be either in the daily, weekly, or monthly view, just so you click on the background and not on an appointment.) In the submenu that appears, click on "Other Settings," and you'll see a dialog box labeled "Format DayWeekMonth View." Set the Time Scale field to "60 minutes." Now you can see all the day & evening hours without having to scroll up and down.

Outlook Tracks Your Activities, Past and Future

An excellent, little-known feature in Microsoft Outlook is the Activities tab of the contact record. (In Outlook 2007 it's a button, not a tab.) The Activities tab contains a comprehensive list of every meeting, task, and email related to every person or company (i.e., contact) in your Outlook database. If you use the journal to make notes of important phone calls, they're listed here too. You must remember, though, to link meetings, tasks, and journal entries to the appropriate contact - unlike emails, they're not linked by default. Try it - you'll spend far less time looking for information in Outlook once you get into the habit of using the Activities tab.

Sorting Your Contacts

Need to sort contacts by criteria such as which project they're related to, what industry they're in, or where you met them? Or perhaps you need to sort tasks by project or client? Sorting this way is a huge time-saver, but you first have to label your contacts and tasks. Frankly, the best way is by use custom fields, which is easy to do in Act! or Goldmine.But unfortunately, in Outlook - if you want much more than name, address, phone number, department, etc. - you're moving into programming.

A easy workaround is to use categories instead of fields. Categories are accessed via the command button in the lower right corner of the contact, appointment, and task dialog boxes. This button takes you to the Outlook's Master Category list where you can create new categories for client, project, referral source, industry, or anything you wish. (You can also delete any the default categories you don't need.) Once you've created your categories, it's easy to assign contacts, tasks, appointments, journal notes, and emails to categories. There are situations where shoehorning categories to make them do the work of fields can cause problems down the line, but for many people it's adequate.

Syncing

The built-in Outlook-Palm sync utility is limited and will only sync a limited number of categories. If you create a lot of custom categories, you'll need to buy a decent sync program. Check out those from DataViz, CompanionLink, or Chapura.

Backing Up ALL Your Microsoft Outlook Data and Views

There are 2 kinds of people - those who have lost their contact database and those who will. If you've customized your Outlook and then tried to restore it from the pst back-up, you've learned the hard way that it doesn't look like it's supposed to. Sure, Microsoft's website explains how to do a complete back up, but the instructions are so complicated that I doubt anyone has understood them, much less gone through the whole process. A great alternative is Eazy-Backup* software - check it out!

*The usual disclaimers apply. My mentioning these products is not a guarantee of any sort. Obviously, you should not change anything until you've completely backed up your files. You already do that, right?

Jan Jasper has been helping busy people to work smarter, not harder since 1988. She is the author of "Take Back Your Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information, & Technology" (St. Martin's Press). Jan has helped thousands of people juggle multiple projects, survive information overload, and get the most from office technology. She also customizes Microsoft Outlook for clients. Call 212.465.7472 or visit Jasper Productivity Solutions

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