Most Popular Torrent Sites 2009

Torrent sites are so popular for downloading big file.Here is a list of top torrent sites of 2009.So find out why they are become so popular in the year.







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- Daily Visitors: 361,168
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16. FENOPY.COM

- Daily Visitors: 346,911
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- Daily Visitors: 342,159
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- Daily Visitors: 270,876
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- Daily Visitors: 266,124
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- Daily Visitors: 247,115
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- Daily Visitors: 218,601
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- Daily Visitors: 218,601
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Free Nintendo DS Lite Games Download (NDS Roms)

Nintendo DS Games or NDS Games are flagship products of Nintendo. The DS portable gaming console is such a hit that a lot of games now are produced solely for the DS Lite. That’s when I searched for Free Download of Nintendo DS LIte Games. I’ve been searching a lot of websites through google and thank goodness I found some ROM sites.

Although it would be better to download the latest free NDS lite games, also known as Nintendo DS lite games, or NDSL games, you can always download free games first. Once you’ve tried the games, you can purchase them on eBay or Amazon.

The websites that offer free downloads of Nintendo DS Lite games ROMs in zip file formats are ROM Site and ndsgames.org. Please take into consideration that these websites do offer DS Lite games but you have to be patient in downloading each games.

I do not own or not in any way affiliated with Romsite.net, so download them at your own risk. If you want to experience maximum fun with your NDS, I recommend you purchase these games from online stores like eBay or Amazon, instead of downloading these games for free.

Some of the DS Lite games available are:
Spider-Man 2 (Activision)
One Piece (Bandai)
Dragon Ball Z (Banpresto)
MegaMan Battle Network DS
Viewtiful Joe (Capcom)
Gyakuten Saiban (Capcom)
Need for Speed (EA)
Dynasty Warriors (KOEI)
Frogger 2005 (Konami)
Mr. Driller (Namco)
Project Rub (Sega)
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles DS rom from Square Enix
Dragon Quest Monsters
Dark Reflections (MezCo Studios)
The URBZ: Sims in the City
(EA)Super Monkey Ball DS (Sega)
Phantasy Star Online DS (Sega)
Puyo Puyo DS (Sega)
Madden NFL 2005 (EA)

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Top 10 Most Expensive Cars 2009

Here is the list of 10 most expensive luxury car of 2009.








1.Koenigsegg CCXR 






The car has 1,018 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 2.9 seconds with top Speed: 250 mph.Engine: 4.7 liter aluminum V8 Price: $2,173,950

Detachable storable hardtop with glass roof, rear wing, carbon ceramic brakes, hydraulic lifting system, navigation system, rear-view camera, DVD, CD, iPod, satellite radio, climate control, tire-monitoring system, leather carpets, roof stowage bag, car cover comes standard. Buyers can request custom leather interior and color options. You'll need the right connections to get one of these--last March, production plans were cut from six cars to four.


2.Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport






The car has 1,001 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 2.5 seconds with top Speed: 407 mph.Engine: 8-liter, 16-cylinder engine with a seven-gear, twin-clutch gearbox Price: $2,027,760. More than 700 hp in its "launch control" function are "continuously on standby” for a quick burst of speed, while cruise control allows constant driving at high speeds. Carbon-ceramic brake discs have interior ventilation; at speeds higher than 200 km/h, the rear spoiler serves as an additional brake. The car can come to a full stop from 100 km/h in just 32 meters.


3.Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster





The car has 678 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 3.3 seconds with top Speed: 355 mph.Engine: Mercedes-Benz AMG V12 engine Price: $1,882,920 Extras: There will be only five of these sold. The roof can be stored in the front trunk. Different drive modes of the sequential robotic gearbox and an adjustable suspension will make the car fun either on the road or on the racetrack.


4.Bugatti Veyron 16.4





The car has 1,001 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 2.5 seconds with top Speed: 400 mph.Engine: 16-cylinder four-wheel drive Price: $1,738,080Extras: The Veyron has three diving modes that allow it conserve power, even at the highest speeds. (It needs only 270-280 horsepower to maintain speeds of 250 km/h.) Like the Grand Sport, the Veyron's ceramic brakes slow it down faster than it can accelerate: it takes only 2.5 seconds to go from 0 to 100 km/h but it takes 2.3 seconds to come to a standstill from 100 km/h. The car is made of titanium, carbon, magnesium and aluminum--the lightest metals available, and some of the most expensive.


5.Pagani Zonda Cinque Coupé







The car has 678 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 3.3 seconds with top Speed: 217 mph.Engine: Mercedes-Benz AMG V12 engine Price: $1,738,080 Extras: The Cinque borrows traits from the upcoming Zonda R track-day supercar, but with an upholstered interior and no roll cage. It's likely to be the final Zonda variant before the model's replacement in a few years. There were only five of these sold for the 2009 model year; the car is currently sold out.


6.Lamborghini Reventon





The car has 650 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 3.4 seconds with top Speed: 211 mph.Engine: 6.5-liter aluminum V12, 6-speed mechanical gearbox Price: $1,454,400 Extras: The Reventon was inspired by the F-22 Raptor fighter jet and named after one of history's most famous fighting bulls. The entire body, excluding the roof and steel external door panels, is encased with carbon fiber. Introduced with the 2007 model year, just 20 of them will be made



7.Pagani Zonda F Roadster





The car has 602 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 3.5 seconds with top Speed: 214 mph.Engine: Mercedes-Benz AMG V12 Mercedes-Benz AMG V12 mechanical 6-speed with twin plate clutch Price: $1,448,000 Extras: The Zonda F is Pagani's top model and a tribute to five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio. It's made largely of carbon fiber and titanium. Production of the Roadster F is limited to 25 units.


8.Maybach Landaulet





The car has 604 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 5.2 seconds with top Speed: 155 mph.Engine: V12 biturbo gasoline engine with 5-speed automatic transmission Price: $1,380,000 Extras: The roof can be opened fully at the rear, while the chauffeur's compartment remains completely enclosed. Opening and closing the roof takes 16 seconds. Each armchair is encased in white leather. Partition screen with clear glass and curtains, reclining rear seats with leg and footrests, and a Dunhill umbrella are included.



9.Pagani Zonda F Coupé







The car has 602 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 3.6 seconds with top Speed: 345 mph.Engine: V12 biturbo gasoline engine with 5-speed automatic transmission Price: $1,375,980 Extras: When the car debuted, Horacio Pagani dedicated it to Juan Manuel Fangio, a record-setting Formula One driver known as "El Maestro." It has Bosch ABS/traction control, a central carbon fiber safety cell with steel and carbon fiber roll bar; and a front- and rear-impact energy-absorbing structure made from carbon fiber. The car is currently sold out


10.Leblanc Mirabeau






The car has 700 bhp Horsepower,It will reach the speed of 0-100 km/h in 3.3 seconds with top Speed: 230 mph.Engine: 4.7-liter V8 Supercharged Price: $861,798 (including $76,000 semi-automatic shifting option) Extras: The layout uses carbon fiber monocoques for ultra-high rigidity and security. Other parts of the chassis are made with titanium or magnesium. Some would argue that the fact that this Swiss stunner is street-legal makes the price tag worth it--most cars of its caliber are ready only for the racetrack. But be prepared for a sparse interior.

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Top 10 Movies of 2009

while every other site is busy looking backwards at 2008, the gang at tips29.com is looking forward to 2009 and making our picks for the ten best movies of NEXT year. We might regret some of our selections during the 2009/2010 awards season - who could've predicted that Star Trek would suck and My Bloody Valentine 3D would win the Palm d'Or? - but our future selves will have to sort out that mess. (Suckers.) With that in mind, here are our predictions for...



Top 10 Movies of 2009



1. This Side of the Truth

Directors: Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson

Writers: Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson

Cast: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jason Bateman, Christopher Guest, Tina Fey, Louis C.K, Jonah Hill, Jeffrey Tambor



Why It Will Rule: In case you're not familiar with the man's work, you need to know that Ricky Gervais is very, very funny. (Obviously.) The creator of the original Office and Extras has starred in a few middling Hollywood comedies (Ghost Town, For Your Consideration), but This Side of the Truth is the first film that he's had a hand in writing and directing, which should definitely put it on your radar. Want more convincing? He's assembled one of the most impressive comedy ensembles in YEARS, and the concept of the movie is BRILLIANT comedy fodder - in a world where lying never existed, a man tells the first lie ever and begins using his new ability to fib for his own gains. Judd Apatow's Funny People is getting all the big-ticket comedy attention for '09, but we're convinced that This Side of the Truth could be something really special.



Why It Might Suck: Gervais has never written/directed a full-length feature before and, if the 30-minute Extras was sometimes too cringe-worthy to sit through, can he really keep us engaged for 90 minutes?

2. State of Play

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Peter Morgan

Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman



Why It Will Rule: If you haven't already seen the BBC miniseries that State of Play is based on, you really should, if only to watch some brilliant performances by Kelly Macdonald, Bill Nighy, and James McAvoy (among others) and finally understand why Warner Bros. was so comfortable handing over the keys to the Harry Potter franchise to director David Yates. Thankfully, the inevitable American redo of State of Play has a pretty damn good director too (Last King of Scotland's Kevin McDonald) and a script adapted by some Hollywood heavyweights (The Kingdom's Carnahan and Michael Clayton's Gilroy). The cast is nothing to sneeze at either, packed with award-winners and pretty faces. (We'll leave it up to you to decide if we're talking about McAdams or Affleck.) The plot, about a high-profile senator with presidential hopes (Affleck) who finds himself assaulted by reporters (Crowe) and political enemies after his mistress turns up dead, feels like a perfect fit for today's political climate - part Obama, part Blagojevich. Could be an All the President's Men for our times.



Why It Might Suck: It's a bit worrisome that both Brad Pitt and Edward Norton bailed on the project at the 11th hour due to scheduling and script issues, only to be hastily replaced by Crowe and Affleck. Here's hoping that the script issues were resolved and that the Fight Club boys made a big mistake.



3. Up

Directors: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

Writer: Bob Peterson

Cast: (voices of) Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger



Why It Will Rule: Seems odd to tell you that one of the best movies of 2009 will be starring Ed Asner in the lead role, but this is Pixar we're talking about. They could make an Oscar-worthy movie about freakin' Chuckles the Clown if they wanted to. The greatest animation studio since the golden age of Walt Disney brings their tenth film to the big screen in 2009 and, thanks to their unprecedented track record of critical and popular hits, they've (so far) only been selling Up on a single beautiful image of a small house flying through the sky tethered to thousands of balloons. The story revolves around 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen who avoids being sent to a nursing home and keeps a promise to his late wife to see the world with the help of a tenacious Wilderness Ranger and lots and lots of helium. Might be too sentimental in less skilled hands, but, at this point, it's safe to say that Pixar deserves the benefit of the doubt. (Plus it's the first Pixar movie to be filmed in Disney Digital 3D, so you know it's going to be gorgeous.)



Why It Might Suck: The storyline might be a hard sell to kids - Come watch your grandpa have an adventure! - and critics everywhere (not us) are hungry for Pixar to finally produce a dud.

4. Nine

Director: Rob Marshall

Writer: Michael Tolkin

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Stacy Ferguson, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren



Why It Will Rule: The last time that director Rob Marshall was paired with a musical - 2002's Chicago - it resulted in 13 Oscar nominations. There's no reason to think that the same thing can't happen again with Nine, a lavish movie adaptation of the 1982 Tony-winning musical based on Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2. Even if you don't consider Marshall's Chicago experience, you can't ignore the appeal of a script by The Player's Michael Tolkin and a cast that makes your eyes water. ANYTHING starring Daniel Day-Lewis is probably going to be great - he really is probably the best actor of his generation - and the pedigree of his female supporting cast is impeccable. We're most excited to see La Vie en Rose's Marion Cotillard again, and the idea of watching Judi Dench and Sophia Loren belt out showtunes makes Nine almost impossible to ignore or resist.



Why It Might Suck: Nicole Kidman and Kate Hudson have developed a reputation as box-office poison lately and Fergie? They cast Fergie opposite Daniel Day-Lewis? Really?

5. The Informant

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Writer: Scott Z. Burns

Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey



Why It Will Rule: You probably knew that Steven Soderbergh had a movie coming out in 2009, but you probably thought it was Che, his Cuban revolutionary biopic starring Benicio Del Toro. And while that movie is getting all the attention at the moment, Soderbergh actually has ANOTHER movie coming out later in 2009 and it's not one of his hand-held, no-stars, Bubble-esque experiments either. It's a big dark comic thriller starring Matt Damon that's based on Kurt Eichenwald's 2000 nonfiction book about price-fixing in the agri-business industry. Damon stars as Mark Whitacre, an executive who works with the FBI to blow the whistle on his corrupt employers and falls prey to his own fraudulent dealings and a wicked bi-polar disorder. (You may have seen pictures of him in People with a mustache and gut for the role.) In this economy, a wicked, corporate-skewing black comedy could do HUGE business, and Soderbergh's last industry expose, Erin Brockovich, was one of his best.



Why It Might Suck: Can even Soderbergh make price-fixing of food additives that interesting?

6. Shutter Island

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: Laeta Kalogridis

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley



Why It Will Rule: It's safe to say that the partnership between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese has been a productive one for the famed director - Gangs of New York got 10 Oscar nominations, The Aviator got 11 nods (and 5 wins), and The Departed got 5 nominations and won 4, including Best Picture and Marty's long-coveted Best Director Oscar. So ANY news that Scorsese and DiCaprio are re-teaming should raise the blood pressure of any true film fan. And when they re-team to adapt a crime novel by the great Dennis Lehane (author of Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone), you should start betting on it in your local Oscar pool as soon as possible. Shutter Island (or Ashecliffe, as it's rumored to be re-titled) follows two U.S. Marshalls (DiCaprio and Ruffalo) trapped by a hurricane on a Massachusetts island as they hunt for a mental patient with a violent past who escaped from a nearby asylum with an equally violent past. It sounds like perfect thriller material, straight out of the third act of Scorsese's Cape Fear remake, and an ideal fit for the legendary filmmaker.



Why It Might Suck: The last movies written by Shutter Island's screenwriter, Laeta Kalogridis, were the lame Viking action movie Pathfinder and Oliver Stone's flop Alexander. Let's hope Lehane's genius shines through regardless.

7. The Lovely Bones

Director: Peter Jackson

Writers: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon



Why It Will Rule: It's impossible not to take notice when the team behind the Lord of the Rings movies - writer/director Peter Jackson and screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens - reunites for a new film project, particularly when it's a project as interesting and atypical as this one. Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, The Lovely Bones, was an unlikely candidate to be a blockbuster publishing success story, but Sebold's sad, sweet story of Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by a neighbor, who watches her family (and her killer) from Heaven as they try to move on following her death, was one of the best-selling novels of the past decade. It's no surprise that Hollywood was quick to adapt the novel, but it was surprising that a director best known for Hobbits and Orcs got the job. However, anyone familiar with Jackson's 1994 drama Heavenly Creatures (a true story of teen obsession and murder starring Kate Winslet) would immediately recognize Jackson as an eerily perfect choice to direct The Lovely Bones. Heavenly Creatures proved that Jackson and Fran Walsh know how to write teenage girls, and the more fantastic elements of the novel couldn't be in better hands.



Why It Might Suck: More than any movie on this list, Lovely Bones has the most potential to be the surprise trainwreck of 2009. The material is difficult (to say the least), and it doesn't help that the original male lead, Ryan Gosling, was replaced by Jackson at the last minute (rumors say that Jackson thought Gosling was, irony of ironies, too fat for the role); that Susan Sarandon has publically complained about Jackson's directorial style; or that the release date has been pushed back multiple times. Pray for Susie Salmon, kids.

8. The Road

Director: John Hillcoat

Writer: Joe Penhall

Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce



Why It Will Rule: Throughout his decades-long career, author Cormac McCarthy has developed a reputation as a virtuoso writer, famed for his tough, brutal imagery and absolute mastery of the English language, so many were shocked that his 2006 post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, became such a mainstream success. Even while America was trying to cope with the image of McCarthy palling around with Oprah, Hollywood was trying to figure out how to turn the best-selling book into a best-selling movie. Thankfully, they found the ideal director for the material - Australian director John Hillcoat, whose 2005 movie, The Proposition, was one of the best, most underrated Westerns in years. The Proposition did an amazing job at finding beauty and grace in the bleakest of environments - both physical and emotional - and that's EXACTLY the aesthetic that any movie version of The Road needs. McCarthy's sublimely simple story of a father and son letting their mutual love sustain each other at the end of the world touched a nerve in millions of readers, and, hopefully, Hillcoat (and the perfectly cast Viggo Mortensen) will be able to translate that effect to the big screen.



Why It Might Suck: The release date has been pushed back a few times and, if Hillcoat botches the balance of bleakness and hope, it could fall flat with audiences.

9. Watchmen

Director: Zack Snyder

Writer: David Hayter and Alex Tse

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie, Carla Gugino



Why It Will Rule: Because if we say otherwise, millions of frenzied, drooling fanboys will smother us in our sleep. Kidding aside, it's no exaggeration to say that Watchmen is, perhaps, THE most anticipated film of 2009. It's a movie version of the most critically beloved graphic novel of all time in an era where superhero movies rule the box office. It's riding a wave of strong pre-release buzz, it's Zack Snyder's first movie since his popular smash 300, and the first two trailers have been AMAZING. Thanks to Iron Man and Dark Knight, audiences are finally taking comic book movies seriously, and Watchmen seems like the next evolutionary step in the genre, acting as both a meta-commentary on superheroes in general and an adult, world-spanning murder mystery. If people dug the bleak, gritty vibe of Dark Knight, then they're going to LOVE Watchmen.



Why It Might Suck: Aside from Lovely Bones, Watchmen is the riskiest bet on this list. 300 wasn't exactly the greatest movie ever (unless you're really into slow-motion homo-erotica), Alan Moore comic book movie adaptations have a bad history (still trying to forget League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), expectations are insanely high, and rumors have it that Snyder - who's spent two years selling the movie to fans as a religiously faithful adaptation - changed the ending. Could either be epic or an epic fail.

10. Avatar

Director: James Cameron

Writer: James Cameron

Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Lang



Why It Will Rule: Watchmen might be the 2009 movie that everyone's talking about now, but make no mistake - Avatar is the BIGGEST movie of 2009. There is literally NO other movie that in any way, shape, or form that could conceivably be bigger. Why? First, it's the first theatrical movie written and directed by James Cameron since Titanic, i.e. the highest grossing movie EVER. Second, by all reports, Cameron has spent the better part of a decade prepping for Avatar and has alleged completely reinvented 3D technology to make a blow-you-through-the-back-of-your-seat experience that will remind you why watching DVDs will NEVER replace the glory of seeing a movie up on the big screen. Third, it's a massive scope sci-fi epic, a genre that Cameron does extremely well (i.e., Terminator 2 and Aliens). Though the project has been shrouded in secrecy, we know that the film follows a paralyzed war veteran far in the future who is brought to the planet Pandora and finds himself trapped in the middle of a conflict for the fate of the planet between his fellow Earthlings and the planet's native Na'vi population. It's a fun concept, but it's the reverence with which Hollywood FX technicians have been speaking about Avatar that has us really, really excited to plop down ten bucks at our local multiplex and take a ride.



Why It Might Suck: The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Titanic has some BIG shoes to fill.


What do you think? Did we miss some obvious choices? Can't believe we ignored J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, Mira Nair's Amelia, Atom Egoyan's Adoration, or Michael Bay's Transformers 2 (kidding)?

post a comment, and let us know what YOU think.

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