Funny movies are not real ticklers

Funny movies that mock of other movies or personalities have been time and again occurrence in the Hollywood. “Meet the Spartans” do fall under that category. But, the sad thing is that the director trying to make the movie funny has made it a dampener. It does not even invoke a slightest urge to laugh rather it gives us only spiteful faces. According to me the movie is an excellent example of how a comedy movie could be so downright hateful, crappy and unbearable. I request the movie makers to think into matters like these before they do a work.

Kingston DataTraveler- No-frills pen drive

A USB pen drive is meant to carry your data. Well thats what the Kingston DataTraveler does. It is a 4 GB pen drive which is also available in 1,2 and 8 GB. The drive is sleek and beautifully crafted in a black polymer casting. Unlike most other drives, this one has a retractable USB port that slides out using a thumb button at the side. The drive and the sliding mechanism exude ruggedness.

Simplicity is key factor here. The drive doesn't support Vista's ReadyBoost feature, but is compatible with different operating systems such as Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OS and Linux. The drive does not support U3 capability. It takes 3 minutes to transfer a 700 MB file, while copying it back it takes 53.1 seconds. It is plain and simple that the flash memory used in this drive is not very fast, but keep in mind that this is a value product.

It is backed by a solid five year warranty from Kingston and this is a very attractive option for portable data storage and transfer. The weight of this USB is 11.3 gram.

Female Lead for Friday the 13th

At last, Danielle Panabaker (MR BROOKS) has been chosen to play the female lead in the remake of the popular movie Friday the 13^th being directed by Marcus Nispel. Other cast who will join Panabaker are Jonathan Sadowski, Travis van Winkle and Aaron Yoo. The film is an remake of the popular horror movie which will roll out late this year. The film is housed at New Line.

Dasavatharam audio on April 25th!!!

Kamal's new venture is with KS Ravikumar. Whenever we hear the name "Dasavatharam" in the news we hear about some controversy or the other. But for the first time its happy news for the Dasavatharam team. The team have planned to release the audio on April 25th. The music has been handled by the Bollywood music director Himesh Reshamayya. Devi Sri Prasad has handled the background scores for the movie. The audio launch function will take place in Nehru Stadium. Jackie Chan will be presiding over the function. Kamal has also invited Amithabh Bachan, Mammooty, Vijay and Hema Malini for the audio launch. Kalaingar tv will cover the event as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu Dr. M Karunanidhi will be presiding over the function.

Samsung's 20X SATA DVD Writer

Samsung presents India's first 20X SATA DVD writer. This is India's fastest ever Internal DVD Writer. It writes 12 percent faster than an 18X DVD Writer and works on a SATA interface. This SATA interface ensures high data transfer speed.

This DVD writer from Samsung comes with the OCTOedge technology that not only makes it faster, but also quieter and more reliable. It also provides the new Samsung SpeedPlus feature that enables a high speed burning capacity with low speed media.

So here we go, write at the speed of thought.

Microsoft: Xbox 360 captures 60 percent of GTAIV sales

Just days after the release of the Take-Two and Rockstar Games super hit game GTA IV the stats are out. Take-out has almost satisfied the stat hungry mob for the whole week. According to its report the game had just collected over six million as it had predicted and $500 million as its week one revenue.

Sony which sponsored a portion of the advertisement for the game though praised the game and its collection was not so happy. The reason for it was that majority of its customers went in for GTA IV in their rival Microsoft’s Xbox console. Microsoft’s GamerScoreBlog reported the stats for the 6 million sales of the game. According to the retailers more than 60 percent of the GTA games sold in the first week was of the XBOX users.

Studios milk $10 million in a Torrent Spy suit

Just weeks after Torrent Spy shut down it has been handed over yet another blow. A federal judge has handed the peer-to-peer file sharing site a big blow. The judge has ordered the site to pay a whooping sum of $110 million to Motion Picture Association. The fine is for infringement of thousands of copyrighted film and TV shows.

But, a cloud prevails on whether Motion Pictures Association of America will accept the fine. Moreover the records show that Valence and Torrent Spy principles have filed for bankruptcy.

MySpace is YourSpace

MySpace is about become your spaceJ. Users of my space can now share their profile pages with other sites like Yahoo, eBay, Twitter etc. "Today, MySpace no longer operates as an autonomous island on the Internet," company co-founder Chris DeWolfe said on a conference call May 8.

The move was taken up by the social network is to bring down the digital barrier between the Web sites. This will help all the sites to come under one roof. This is in suit with the trend that is prevailing among the various online sites.

This announcement has made Myspace the first social network site to let users to share its profile pages across various sites.

ATI Catalyst Control Centre and NVIDIA nTune

A good gamer needs to extract the maximum performance from his gaming hardware, the most important one being the graphics card. Today ATI and NVIDIA are the two leading graphics card manufacturers in the world. There are far fewer tools available to tweak ATI hardware, but this is because ATI's drivers, called catalyst provides more than enough options to tweak your graphics cards. To cater to the enthusiasts, NVIDIA has released its own set of tools as well as, nTune, to tweak its mother board and graphics cards. So basically this is a good news for the gaming freaks as they can now play games without any interruption.

Intel QX9650-Speed Buster

Intel fires another processor, the QX9650 which is a quad core processor. It is based on the 45nm manufacturing process, which is the key differentiator between the QX6850 and QX9650. We already know that QX6850 is built on the 65 nm manufacturing process.

The QX9650 runs at 3 GHz, with 1333 MHz FSB and is well supplemented with a cache of 6 MB per die. So a total of 12 MB which is 2 MB more than the QX6850. Intel has also introduced 47 new instruction sets in the form of SSE4.

In Sciencemark the QX9650 shows a nearly 10 percent performance improvement over the older QX6850, except in cryptography, which is affected by clock speed.

Price hasn't been announced yet but it is expected to be around 50,000 Rs.