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Tum Mile Movie Review, Mp3 Songs Download, Trailer
Emraan Khan is back with his 'Jannat' director Kunal Deshmukh's film 'Tum Mile' which also stars Soha Ali Khan. The film revolves around the two leads who play former lovers who meet again after a gap of two years, and get embroiled in a nightmarish real life incident.
The film is set in 2005, against the backdrop of the shocking Mumbai floods in which at least 1,000 people died.
10 best Power Tips for Windows 7
1. Speed up your boot time
Windows 7 has considerably downsized the boot time, but its still behind Ubuntu. Well, if you still crave for a faster boot up, try this Power tip.Step 1: Type msconfig into the Start menu search bar
Step 2: Click through to the System configuration screen
Step 3: Select the boot tab. Click on Advanced options and set the number of processors from 2 to 4, depending on whether you system is dual core or quad core.
2. Restore the Quick Launch Toolbar
Windows 7 comes with a huge Quick Launch taskbar that can hold all the shortcuts. Those used to the old Quick Launch Toolbar, might find it somewhat cluttering. Why not restore the old Quick Lunch toolbar? You can do this with an easy trick provided belowStep 1: Right click the taskbar
Step 2: Choose Toolbars>New Toolbar
Type %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick LaunchStep 3: In the Folder box and click Select Folder.
Step 4: Right click the taskbar and clear the Lock the taskbar.
The Quick Launch toolbar will appear on the right.
Now to minimize its space right click the divider, clear the Show Text and Show Title. Now right click on the toolbar and select View >Small Icons
3. Open folder in new process
In Windows 7 the folders are opened in the same process. This essentially saves the system's resources, but even one folder crash can bring down the entire shell. You might encounter system crashes whenever you do something in Explorer. There's an easy way to avoid this. Open the Computer, hold down the shift key, right click on your drive and select Open in New Process. Next time you open a folder it will be launched in seperate process and so a crash won't affect the other processes.4. Removing the clogs
Windows 7 offers a far better performance than Vista. Still your PC might get sluggish due to some anomly.Click on the Start and type RESMON and press Enter. This will launch the Resource Monitor. Click on CPU, Memory, Disk or Network tabs. Windows 7 will immediately show, which processes are engaging the highest system resources.
The information on CPU offers you something beyond what you use to get in Task Manager. Suppose a certain program has been blocked you can right-click on its name in the list and select Analyze process. It reveals why the program was halted. The reason might be that it had to wait for another process. This could be the clue to solve your problem.
5. Get rid of the Send Feedback link
In Windows 7 you Microsoft has incurred a feedback. It allows you to report about the bugs or provide any good idea that comes to your mind. Just by clicking the Send Feedback button you can send your feedback to Microsoft.Now when you have completed sending feedback you might think of removing the Send feedback option. This would require you to apply a simple workaround on the registry.
Step 1: Go for the regdit
Step 2: Search for the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Step 3: Set the FeedbackToolEnabled value to zero and restart your PC
Note: In case, you would like to suspend the Send Feedback links temporarily set the value to 3.
6. Add network support
Windows Live MovieMaker doesn't allow you to import files over a network. There's a quick Registry tweak using which you can change this in two steps.Step 1: Run REGEDIT, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker
Step 2: Add a DWORD value called AllowNetworkFiles and set it to 1 to add network support.
7. Custom power switch
In the default Windows 7 display you will be able to see the Shut down button on the Start menu. In case you are rebooting the system too often, it could be a better idea to set a default action. This can be easily accomplished in a jiffy.Step 1: Right click the Start orb
Step 2: Select Properties
Step 3: Set the Power boot action to Restart
8. Multi-threaded Robocopies
Are you in the habit of using the command-line robocopy tool? Windows 7 has introduced new switches that are really appreciable. The new multi-threaded operation can be called by a new switch that is supported by Robocopy. To enable the new multi-threaded copy feature use the following parameter/MT[:n]
Here n denotes that multi-threaded copies with n threads. The value of n cannot exceed 128. Robocopy copies files and folders in multi-threaded operation by default.
9. Search all
Windows 7 allows you to search the contents of almost any type of file. This would be useful only if it is not finding the data you need. Although the search might be very slow you might try it in tight situation. For this you need to do thisStep 1: Launch the Explorer
Step 2: Click Tools > Folder Options > View
Step 3: Check Try to search the content of unknown file types
10. Skip the log-on screen
It's gets on your nerves when you have to reboot the system time and again, and the log-on screen keep you waiting. Just disable it by pressing WinKey+R and typing control userpasswords2 in the box that appears. Uncheck the Users must enter a username and password to use this computer.Source:http://blog.taragana.com/
'2012' movie review : The world will come to an end in 2012
SCIENCE FICTION/ACTION:
United States/Canada, 2009
U.S. Release Date:
2009-11-13
Running Length:
2:38
MPAA Classification:
PG-13 (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Cast:
John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Tom McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover
Director:
Roland Emmerich
Screenplay:
Roland Emmerich & Harald Kloser
Cinematography:
Dean Semler
Music:
Harald Kloser, Thomas Wander
U.S. Distributor:
Columbia Pictures
Subtitles:
none
If, as is believed in certain fringe circles, the world will come to an end in 2012, at least there will be no more movies like this one made. Perhaps the strangest thing about 2012 is that the bad parts of the film are among the most enjoyable, because they're so over-the-top ridiculous that it's impossible not to break out laughing. It's the mediocre sections that bring the production down, and there are far too many of them. Despite having only enough content to adequately fill a 60-minute slot, 2012 turns into an epic slog of more than 2 1/2 hours. It seems a lot longer. Load up on strong coffee beforehand. Not only will that be needed to keep you awake, but it will provide a bathroom break excuse to escape the theater once or twice. Of course, once free of the auditorium, you may find the lure of the exit door too sweet to pass up.
The idea that the apocalypse is set for December 21, 2012 isn't a new one. Doomsayers, always looking for the next possible date for the planet's destruction, have latched onto this one because it represents the end of the Mayan calendar. I'm sure Nostradamus predicted it as well, because the poor guy gets credit for predicting everything. Count me among the skeptics, and not just because there's no credible scientific evidence to support a 2012 lights-out, but because the true believers preach it with a religious fervor that's a little scary. I won't lose any sleep over it and feel confident that the world will be pretty much the same when I wake up on December 22, 2012 as it will be the day before. I won't be postponing shopping for Christmas presents in the hope that the end of the world will save me the agony.
I can't say whether the so-called "science" represented in Roland Emmerich's 2012 is the most embarrassing misrepresentation of geology, physics, and astronomy ever offered in a big-budget movie, but it has to be close. This shouldn't be surprising, however, since Emmerich is far less interested in staying true to the laws of the physical world than he is in destroying things. With 2012, he aims not only to top his own previous excesses (which include Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow) but to out-explode Michael Bay and steal the disaster crown from Irwin Allen. Pretty much every kind of imaginable catastrophe can be found in this film. Earthquakes? Check. Volcanos? Check. Collapsing skyscrapers? Check. Uncontrolled fires? Check. Raining ash? Check. Plane crashes? Check. Capsized ocean liners? Check. Tsunamis? Check. John Cusack as an action hero? Check - say anything, but not that!
Of course, the average movie-goer conned out of $10 to see this movie will not care about characters, which is a good thing, because there aren't any. And he or she won't care about a storyline, which is also a good thing. No - the driving motivation for anyone to see 2012 is mayhem. Things blowing up. A shitstorm of special effects. So, does that aspect of the movie at least live up to expectations? Sadly, no. Yes, there are some impressive scenes of havoc, but they're not as spectacular as one expects. And there's a disappointing lack of recognizable icons biting the dust. The city whose destruction is chronicled in the most detail is Los Angeles, which is arguably one of the most structurally generic cities in the United States. No Empire State Building. No Sears Tower. No Space Needle. Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Buenos Ares, and the Vatican get token screen time, but those are almost afterthoughts. I assume Emmerich decided not to go after New York this time because he's already traveled that route and it may seem less-than-entertaining after the real-life horrors of 9/11.
Another problem with the disaster sequences is that they last too long, are too repetitive, and are mixed with some of the most preposterous action scenes ever devised for a motion picture. Not only are we treated to the astonishing sight of a limousine being chased by the cracking and buckling of streets during the earthquake that destroys Pasadena, but that's only the appetizer for when our heroes flee the pyroclastic flow created by the Yellowstone super-volcano (by RV, foot, and plane). This reduces the concept of outrunning a fireball to the level of a nursery school feat. Some degree of silliness is expected in a big-budget disaster movie, but what happens in 2012 is so over-the-top that it's impossible for a thinking person to dismiss the absurdity of the situation.
2012 follows the traditional disaster film formula: first act setup (in which various dire pronouncements are made about the future of the human race), second act payoff (in which 75% of the special effects budget is exhausted), and final act resolution (in which the heroes do heroic things that save the human race, or at least part of it). There's a large roster of characters, which truncates the screen time of them all and destroys any chance of someone emerging as more than a foreground decoration for the special effects. There's no suspense because one doesn't care whether the characters live or die. Their fates are a matter of indifference, which makes all the "excitement" near the end rather ho-hum.
The first significant person we're introduced to is Dr. Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a scientific advisor to the President (Danny Glover). He is the bearer of bad news: during a recent trip to India, he uncovered evidence that the world is on the fast track to destruction. It's 2009 when he makes this discovery; three years later, his prediction is reaching fruition. He's one of the leaders of an international team assembled to investigate the problem and develop a solution by which the human race will not end. His immediate superior is Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt), who is prepared to take emotion out of the equation when it comes to who lives and dies - something Adrian, the President, and the First Daughter (Thandie Newton) can't do. As the destabilization of the planet accelerates, plans have to be adjusted.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles-based fiction writer Jackson Curtis (Cusack) is on vacation in Yosemite with his two kids when news of a massive earthquake in the city causes him to head home, but not before he has a heart-to-heart with an Art Bell-type radio show host, Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson). Charlie informs Jackson that the world is about to end. He gives him the whole spiel about the Mayans and December 21. (Although, curiously, the events in this film seem to take place during the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2012, not during the last fortnight of the year.) Jackson and his kids arrive at the house shared by his ex-wife, Kate (Amanda Peet) and her plastic surgeon boyfriend, Gordon (Tom McCarthy), just as the final dissolution of Los Angeles is beginning. So everyone hops in Jackson's limo and they get the hell out of Dodge. Their destination is Yellowstone, where Charlie claims to have "maps" of the "space ships" being designed by the government to save humanity.
There are other characters, too - an Indian geophysicist, a pair of old coots on a cruise ship, and some people in Tibet - but they have even less to do than the main group.
The cast is more formidable than one might expect from a glorified B-movie. Clearly the actors, knowing the identity of the director and having read the script, could not have been under the misapprehension they were embarking upon the second coming of Citizen Kane. Yet, Emmerich managed to nab the usually reliable John Cusack, Oliver Platt, and Danny Glover, the ethereal Thandie Newton, the increasingly prominent Woody Harrelson, and quirky character actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. One can assume that looking at the cast list for 2012 may provide insight into whose portfolio was damaged in the 2008 stock market dive.
Apparently, the start of production for 2012 was impacted by the writer's strike. In ordinary circumstances, that might provide a partial explanation for the poor quality of the screenplay, but the reality is that movies of this sort are generally not blessed with top-notch writing. Scripts are nothing more than skeletons. The flesh and muscle are the visual effects and, when these are found wanting, as is sometimes the case during 2012, the production resembles a picked-over carcass. When it comes to disaster movies, I'm an easy mark - I liked dumb fare like Twister, Volcano, and The Day After Tomorrow. But I can't give 2012 a pass. It's long and boring and in some ways even less bearable than Transformers 2.
Source:http://www.reelviews.net/
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