Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan seems to have run out of topics to post on his blog. In his latest post Big B said that he had wished Shahrukh Khan on his birthday (November 2) through an SMS but he is still waiting for an acknowledgement. He further wrote wrote that it was pretty strange for Shahrukh not to reply him back.
amitabh wrote “Nov 2 was Shahrukh’s birthday and I may have been the very early wishers to him, but he still has not acknowledged. Mobile must have crashed with the number of wishes he had continued to receive throughout the day. Maybe I should send him a reminder. Most unlike him. I wished Gauri and him for their anniversary a few days back and they responded. But why not now!??”
The two giants of the Indian cinema who have starred together in movies like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and Mohabbatein are always said to be in competition with each other. Both of them have publicly denied this and said that this is a creation of the media. Well we hope Shahrukh acknowledges Big B's wish better late than never.
It’s been a while since we looked at ways to download YouTube videos to get local copies of your favorite vids, and we thought it might be time to take a look at which options are still left standing and what new apps are worth checking out.
As some of you have pointed out in the comments, downloading personal copies of YouTube videos is not supported by the YouTube Terms of Service, which states:
“You may access User Submissions for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the YouTube Website. You shall not copy or download any User Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the YouTube Website for that User Submission.”
We want to stress that most of these tools do violate the ToS and that if you use them, you do so at your own risk. Also , if you’ve been tempted to download for a better browsing experience on the big screen, don’t forget YouTube has already got you covered on that with YouTube XL.
For those of you new to the concept, you’ll need to know a couple of things. Many of these sites and tools simply grab YouTube videos in their native Flash format (FLV). To watch these files on your desktop, you’ll either need to get yourself an FLV player or convert the files into another format you can watch in your media player of choice (or on your iPod/iPhone, cell phone, or wherever the videos will ultimately end up).
Some of the listed tools include FLV players or file format converters along with the video download functions. Choose your poison according to your needs and patience level — if you do a lot of downloading it might be worth your while to check out the more full-featured apps.
There’s a reason to love Roland Emmerich’s latest destruct-o-picture, 2012 (no assembly required — just throw the pieces up in the air and voila ), but it’s not in the movie itself, which is an exploding turkey of epic proportions. However, if it is indeed true that actors like John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson make the big popcorn blockbusters in order to afford to make smaller indie flicks, then Fox Searchlight should have an awfully big slate next year; 2012 probably just paid for two more Thomas McCarthy (The Visitor, The Station Agent) directorial efforts, in addition to picking up the tab on a year’s worth of Oliver Platt all-you-can-eat buffets.
Beyond that, there’s not a lot else positive to say for 2012 unless you enjoy having your senses assaulted, your brain liquefied, and your bowels throttled with bass. If that’s the case, you may walk out blind and stupid with a pant-full of your own defecate, but you’ll do so with a big dumb grin on your face, because for nearly a full two hours of the 158 minute run-time, nothing is safe from Emmerich’s CGI wrecking ball. The east coast, the west coast, China, Vegas, and the rest of this godforsaken Earth gets completely torched, tossed, shredded, and sliced like the wrists of a teenage Goth girl. Emmerich literally leaves no stone unturned — he yanks them out of the ground and smashes them into each other in a incoherent, aimless mass of overwrought, over-long, all-encompassing destructive atrociousness.
Nothing is left in the wake of that bull-dozing, either — not even a plot. Indeed, it’s an almost impossible movie to spoiler — the imminent destruction of the Earth is revealed early on, and the audience is left with nothing to do for the rest of the film except watch as the globe shits itself. The only narrative thread — fringed and weak as it is — involves whether an obscure underemployed author, Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), his two children, ex-wife (Amanda Peet) and her boyfriend (Thomas McCarthy) will make it to the Arks before the gates close and the tsunamis arrive — think National Lampoon’s Apocalypse (“Holiday Roooaaaad”). And if you don’t know how it ends the second you walk into the theater, you’ve clearly never seen an Emmerich film. Also, you’re kind of dumb, and I don’t think I want to be your friend.
There’s also a international operation to build Arks, and get the key figures of government into them before it’s too late. Oliver Platt’s Chief of Staff to Danny Glover’s POTUS and his daughter, Thandie Newton, steer the subplot into the abyss, along with Chiwetel Ejiofor’s geological scientist, who was the one who predicted the end of the world in the first place. Ejiofor is also the only guy in the movie worth paying much attention to — apparently, all of Cusack’s early-career magnetism rubbed off on Chiwetel, and, sadly, none of us were privy to that rub-down exchange (pants were not involved, I understand).
To be sure, there’s a lot of meaningless religious symbolism, too, as well as a few made-up sci-fi words to stick in the trailer to appeal to the sci-fi geeks who find J.J. Abrams too cerebral. Emmerich also pays a lot of lip service to the value of an individual life, even as we watch thousands of CGI people fall out of their office buildings and plunge into darkness. But it’s not their lives that matter — they are the faceless masses (like us, in the movie theater). What really matters is that John Cusack makes it to the end of the film, because he was Lloyd Dobler, dammit.
Actually, if Emmerich had stripped out the nods to sacrifice the overly-sentimental family bullshit storyline (complete with a token dog) — hell, if he’d just removed the dialogue all together — it might have been a morbidly amusing look at the complete extinction of the end of the world. It’s hard to find fault with the CGI, except for the overabundance of it, and it’s even rather beautiful in its own sick way — 2012 could have been an artistic exploration of humanity’s collective oh-shit face as the Earth crumbled in on itself. Instead, it’s a so-bad-it’s funny hootenanny that runs out of hoot about halfway through, leaving us exasperated, out of popcorn, and wishing that the rest of humanity would just die already so we could go home.
you gotta watch it if you are a die hard action movie fan and the rating is 4.95/5 and th 0.05 percent is deficient due to the longevity of the plot
Exactly 20 years ago on November 15, 1989, a 16-year-old boy walked out to bat for India in a Test match vs Pakistan in Karachi. At that time the commentators called him young Tendulkar, today he is a legend of the game.
Sachin Tendulkar completes 20 glorious years in international cricket on Sunday.
Australian batsman Matthew Hayden had once said: "I've seen God. He bats at number 4 for India". These were the defining words for the man, the genius named Sachin Tendulkar.
There have been only two times in his career when he doubted whether he would be able to play - once after scoring just 15 in his first Test innings and then years later when he suffered a tennis elbow injury.
Sachin has played under many Captains and has seen the composition of the Indian team change around him many a time over the last 20 years but he's not one to compare teams.
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The third part of this controversial reality show based on the concept of big brother , the bigg boss 3 has gone on air on October 4, 2009 having Mr. Amitab Bachan as the host for the show. he has announced the 13 controversial contestants are as follows.
Vindoo Dara Singh He is an Indian film and television actor. He is the son of veteran Indian actor and famous wrestler Dara Singh.
Poonam Dhillon She is a noted Indian Hindi film, theatre and TV actress.
Kamal R Khan He became popular from a small movie Desh Drohi. He is a Bhojpuri actor, write and director and got a good popularity for his role in the movie Desh Drohi
Sherlyn Chopra Sherlyn Chopra (formerly known as Mona Chopra) is an Indian model, singer and bollywood actress. She is partly Christian and partly Muslim.She has got a Persian ancestry and Punjabi surname.
Shamita Shetty Shamita Shetty is an Indian actress. She is the younger sister of Bollywood actress and Big Brother 2007 winner Shilpa Shetty
Tanaaz B Irani Tannaz B Irani dabbles in serials, films and theatre with equal panache. Her decade long association with the television industry was mostly in the comic genre.
Bakhtiyar M Irani Bakhtiyar M Irani is a famous TV Serial Actor and had participated in many reality shows including Nach Baliye, Hans Baliye and TV Serials like Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Is Ghar Ki etc.
Aditi Govitriker Aditi Gowitrikar is an Indian model, actress and a physician. She was selected Mrs. World in 2001
Ismail Darbar Ismail Darbar is a composer of music for Indian films also known as an Indian film music director.
Rohit Verma Rohit Verma is one of the most popular and known Indian Fashion Designer.
Raju Srivastav Raju Srivastav Kanpur is an Indian comedian, and more popularly, an observational comedian.
Jaya Sawant Jaya Sawant is the mother of Bollywood Actress, Model and Item Dance Girl Rakhi Sawant.
Claudia Ciesla. Claudia Ciesla is a German model, actress, and singer of Polish descent. Ciesla started modeling at the age of 15 working for shows involved in fashion and dancing.
Now we expecting them to show some good drama inside the house and for it we really want Bigg Boss team to select the celebrities to keep the house alive. Its not easy for a celebrity (if he is a real celebrity) to be a part of a reality show and remain cut-off from the entire world for almost 84 days. The Bigg Boss team really selected the contestants from all walks of life and the ones those who were in the limelight recently in order to serve us with the best.
Paris, Oct 5 (DPA) Suicide bombers associated with Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist network have begun carrying bombs inside their bodies in the form of suppositories to circumvent strict security controls, the French daily Le Figaro reported Monday. Citing information supplied by the newly formed French anti-terrorist service DCRI, the report highlighted a recent assassination attempt in Saudi Arabia in which the terrorist carried the bomb within his body.
“That is to say, it was undetectable,” a French interior ministry official said. “The suicide bomber had only to detonate it with his cellphone, which the palace guards did not have the presence of mind to remove.”
The target of the attack, Mohammed bin Nayef, the son of the Saudi interior minister, suffered only minor injuries.
However, the method used by the bomber has forced security officials to reconsider the controls used to prevent suicide bombings, particularly at airports.
“Our aviation controls are equipped with metal detectors, but in the case of the Saudi suicide bomber only an X-ray control would have detected the explosive,” a police official said.
But X-ray controls are not being considered for general use. For one thing, they are very expensive. There is also another consideration, that of health.
“It is simply unthinkable to put X-rays into general use for security controls, since we know how often some passengers fly,” an interior ministry official said. “The health risks of over-exposure to X-rays are too great.”
According to a police security expert, one solution would be to concentrate on finding the telephone that emits the signal for the explosion. That could mean that passengers may in future be forced to hand their cellphones to a stewardess on boarding.
The beligian grand prix comes to an end bringing in the 18 th win for Ferrari's Kimi Raikonnen followed by the first podium finiah for Force india in the form of Giancarlo Fisichella and then by Sebastian Vettel.
The detailed report follows:-
Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts 1 4 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 44 1:23:50.995 6 10 2 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India 44 +0.9 secs 1 8 3 15 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 44 +3.8 secs 8 6 4 5 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 44 +9.9 secs 5 5 5 6 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 44 +11.2 secs 3 4 6 2 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 44 +32.7 secs 15 3 7 23 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 44 +35.4 secs 4 2 8 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 44 +36.2 secs 10 1 9 14 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 44 +36.9 secs 9 10 10 Timo Glock Toyota 44 +41.4 secs 7 11 20 Adrian Sutil Force India 44 +42.6 secs 11 12 12 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 44 +46.1 secs 16 13 17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 44 +54.2 secs 18 14 3 Luca Badoer Ferrari 44 +102.1 secs 20 Ret 7 Fernando Alonso Renault 26 Retired 13 Ret 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 21 Brakes 2 Ret 22 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 0 Accident 14 Ret 8 Romain Grosjean Renault 0 Accident 19 Ret 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 0 Accident 12 Ret 11 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 0 Accident 17
Finally something worth for force india!
suddenly after the race india's very own Force india is looking strong and wants to give some competion to giants like ferrari , BMW,Mc laren and so on.with Giancarlo Fisichella finishing 2nd forc india have got something to celebrate ! giving them their first points of the season(8) and currently standing in the 9 th position.the team is now looking promising to grab some more victories over the season.
force india's Giancarlo fisichella celebrating on winning the silver.
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The present californian governor arnold schwarzeneggar invites the bollywood badshaw shahrukh khan for a private dinner. this is actually supposed to become a healing path to the incident involving shahrukh khan who was detained at the newark airport.
Seems to be a good idea MR.GOVERNOR!
(This was a response to the NEWARK INCIDENT.)
New Delhi, Aug 15 : Sharukh khan was detained at the newark-new jersey airport ,when he was transit to chikago to attend a "indian" indepenceday, the 63rd. there were no proper reasons for his detention there .however , media confirm that the reason for the incident was the tag of "KHAN"in his name. his personal secretery who was a hindu was allowed .the security was concerned about knowing whether he was a legit indian or not.despite , the repeat words by his security saying that he was a actor , the security could not leave him until furthur investigation which was carried on for another two hours.
responce of USA: US Ambassador to India, Timothy J Roemer, said in a statement here that the US was trying to understand the case.
He said Shahrukh is a ''global icon'' and many Americans loved his films. ''We are trying to ascertain the facts of the case--to understand what took place. Shahrukh Khan, the actor and global icon, is a very welcome guest in the United States. Many Americans love his films,'' the US Ambassador said.
The actor was allowed only one phone call during the period and was let off only after the intervention by Indian Embassy officials. Incidentally, Shahrukh Khan’s upcoming releases include Karan Johar’s My Name is Khan which touches on the issue of racial profiling and discrimination faced by a certain minority community in a post-9/11 world.
response of shahrukh khan: ''US is the best place in the world for shooting. But travelling into the country has been very inconvenient for me,'' Shahrukh told CNN-IBN TV channel from Chicago. He, however, clarified that he had no hard feelings against any one. ''It was unfortunate, but I'm not angry. I will not make this an ego issue. I take it as a joke.'' Talking about the strict rules the country had for immigrants, the actor said while the security measures in the United States must be respected, a common name cannot be the reason to put some one through questioning.
Samsung has announced the launch of Samsung N310 Ultra-Portable Netbook which is powered by Intel Atom Mobile processor and features scratchproof LED backlit 10.1-inch display and boasts of Bacteria resiatant keyboard.
The new Samsung N310 ultra-portable Netbook appears to be very similar in size and features to Samsung N110 netbook PC is designed as low-cost, Internet-centric mobile computing devices also called NetBooks and is powered by 1.6 GHz Intel Atom ULV (ultra low voltage) Processor N270, specifically designed for small devices and low power consumption, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility.
The Samsung N310 netbook is designed by award-winning Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa its rounded and smooth edges is modeled like a pebble.
Measuring 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.17 inch, the Samsung N310 also boasts of a keyboard which is 100% bacteria resistant making it more hygienic than any other laptop. In addition, the keyboard of this ultra-portable netbook PC is 93% the size of a regular desktop keyboard offering ease and comfort in trying.
The Intel Atom processor N270 uses a new design structure that packs in 47 million transistors into a single chip sized at just 22mm (0.87 inches), and the processor uses just 2.5 watts of power which is less than 1/10th of the 35 watts used by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Samsung N310 netbook is also equipped with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology which reduces average system power consumption. The enhanced low-power sleep states (C1E, C2E, C4E) are optimized for power by forcibly reducing the performance state of the processor when it enters a package low-power state.
Designed specifically for mobile devices, the Samsung N310 netBook uses a brand new design structure the dynamic L2 cache sizing -that reduces electrical leakage in transistors-to conserve energy, giving you more time away from the wall outlet.
This new range of Ultra Portable Samsung N310 NetBook is targeted at consumer who needs to stay connected, informed, entertained and productive-anytime and anywhere. The netBook is designed lightweight and small in size making it convenient for use at all sorts of places like in home, gym, trains, bus, planes etc. where a larger size laptop might feel inconvenient.
The new Samsung N310 netbook is about half a inch wider with a little larger chassis than the Samsung N110 netbook, which allows for a larger keyboard than other netbook PCs in market today (about 93% of standard desktop keyboard) and it is equipped with two front facing internal speakers one each on left and right side of screen and integrated 1.5 subwoofer speakers below the keyboard, togather yielding some really high quality audio output than most of the other netbooks.
The 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor N270 in Samsung N310 netBook also includes a power-optimized front side bus of 533 MHz for faster data transfer (FSB) on demanding mobile applications and a 512 KB L2 cache (which temporarily stores data) build with Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Mainboard.
Samsung N310 netBook features 1-GB DDR2 667 MHz SDRAM (maximum 2-GB via a standard SO-DIMM module) and a 160-GB internal 2.5-inch 5400 rpm SATA hard drive. There is provision to connect CD/DVD optical drive of choice but no optical drive is packaged.
Samsung N310 Netbook comes with Microsoft Windows XP Home (SP3) preinstalled, and this netBook is equipped with 10.1-inch Widescreen SuperBright WSVGA LED display having 200nit brightness powered by integrated Intel GMA 950 Graphics chipset with shared memory capable of maximum resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels.
The Samsung N310 netbook also sports integrated 1.3 Megapixel webcam which is placed in the bezel above the LCD. In addition, the netBook also sports build-in stereo speakers and built-in Digital Array Microphones.
Available in several colors, the new Samsung N310 ultra-mobie netBook also features integrated WiFi 802.11b/g Wireless LAN mini PCI-E connection and Bluetooth v2.0 with EDR wireless connection which allows faster downloads from the internet, quick data transfer and non- drop net connectivity.
In addition, Samsung N310 netBook also offers integrated 10/100 Mbit Ethernet LAN connection, an integrated 56kbps Modem/Fax connection and sports 3 USB v2.0 ports (2 on right side and 1 on left) for wired connectivity. On the left and right sides of the computer there is Ethernet LAN RJ45 connector and power jacks and one more USB ports, plus VGA port, and mic and headphone jacks.
The ultra-light weight Samsung N310 comes with many windows software already installed which includes: YouCam, McAfee Security Center, Samsung Recovery Solution III that creates restore file of system data, Samsung Magic Doctor that detects problems with any application and help troubleshooting and resolving , Samsung Update plus Easy Display Manager, Easy Battery Manager, Easy Network Manager, Easy Speedup Manager, McAfee Virus Scan, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Easy Network Manager for connecting to a wireless access point.
Other features of Samsung N310 ultra mobile netBook PC includes integrated VGA resolution webcam, 3-in-1 Media Card Reader supporting SD, SDHC and Multimedia Card (MMC), 3 USB v2.0 ports, Realtek ALC6628 Hi-Definition Audio 5.1 CODEC Hardware with build-in 2 stereo speaker system of 1.5 Watts each and also sports built-in Microphone.
Weighing 1.27 Kgs, the Samsung N310 ultraportable netbook comes with 4-cell, Li-Ion Battery which provides upto 5 hrs battery life and the Netbook is designed to be a eco-efficient consumer and business notebooks, and are fully compliant with the RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) directive.
I/O Ports 3 USB v2.0 ports RJ-45 LAN Port 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Controller RJ-11 Fax/Modem Port External MIC Input External Audio Out VGA Port 15 Pin D-Sub 3-in-1 Media Card Slot, SD, SDHC, MMC
Samsung N310 Ultra-Portable Netbook Features Intel Atom Processor N270, 1.6 GHz 512 KB L2 Cache, 533 MHz AGTL+ FSB Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Mainboard 1-GB DDR2 SDRAM, 667 Mhz, Max. upto 2 GB maximum in 1 SODIMM 160-GB, SATA 5400 rpm Hard Drive 10.1-inch Widescreen Scratchproof SuperBright WSVGA LED display, 220nit brightness, 1024 x 600 pixels screen resolution Integrated Intel GMA 950 Graphics Chipset with shared memory Integrated WiFi 802.11b/g Wireless LAN mini PCI-E connection Integrated 10/100 Mbit Ethernet LAN connection Integrated 56kbps Modem/Fax connection Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR Integrated 1.3 Megapixel webcam (placed in the bezel above the LCD) 3-in-1 Media Card Reader, SD, SDHC, and Multimedia Card (MMC) 3 USB v2.0 ports 83 Keys spill-proof keyboard Keyboard (93% fullsize of standard laptop) Realtek ALC6628 Hi-Definition Audio 5.1 CODEC Hardware Built-in 2.1 Channel Surround speakers plus 1.5W Subwoofer speakers Built-in Digital Array Microphone Windows XP Home SP3 4-cell, Li-Ion, 4200 mAh Battery, upto 5 hrs battery life Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.17 inch Weight: 1.27 Kgs (with battery pack)
Intel Atom ULV processor N270 powered Samsung N310 Netbook PC equipped with bacteria resistant keyboard and featuring 10.1-inch display, 160-GB SATA hard drive and Windows XP is available in India for Rs. 30,089 ( 399 pounds GBT) and comes with one year standard warranty. Visit www.samsung.com for more details.
It’s been a while since we looked at ways to download YouTube videos to get local copies of your favorite vids, and we thought it might be time to take a look at which options are still left standing and what new apps are worth checking out.
