LOTRO Announces Free Trial Program! PLAY THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINETM FOR FREE!Turbine launches 7-day Free Trial Program for the Hottest MMO of the YearWESTWOOD, MA --August 29, 2007-- Turbine, Inc. has launched the official 7-day free trial of The Lord of the Rings OnlineTM: Shadows of AngmarTM (LOTRO). Beginning today, fans in North America, Australia and New Zealand can play the best online lotro game for free by visiting http://trial.lotro.com/. LOTRO has received critical acclaim from around the globe. Since its launch in April, LOTRO has quickly become the second largest MMORPG with an estimated 4 million characters calling Middle-earth their home. The lotro game continues to grow with two massive updates that have increased the world by over 20%: 10,000,000 square meters of new landscape to explore Over 200 new quests that extend the epic story Introduction of Legendary Play where players can experience PvP as a powerful Ranger or a

There are 12 different classes. The choice of class determines which spells your character will receive, as well as how much characteristic upgrades will cost. The class names are inside jokes amongst the developers, often (but not always) referring in some way to the abilities of the class. For example, the Xelor class which uses time dofus kamas magic in combat, derives its name from Rolex, a watch manufacturer.Sadida's Boots (from "Adidas" backwards) - Nature-influenced direct damage and voodoo doll summoning. Sadida are a race of nature spirits, sleeping 23 hours a day. Eniripsa's Hands (Aspirine, the French spelling of "Aspirin") - Specialized in healing and invoking spells to increase the abilities of their allies. Eniripsa are winged fairies, females having semi-transparent butterfly wings, males have dragon-like wings. Iop's Heart (named for Yop yogurt drink, a developer in-joke) - Attack-based class with many powerful spells, however they have

Artist: Chris Nielsen

Title: Mystic Holiday

Genre: Instrumental Jazz-Classical-New Age

Label: CNP Creative Group

Chris Nielsen Website

Chris Nielsen takes you on a Mystic Holiday through his music and multimedia experiences on his website. He is a media developer and a music man.

This CD engages your senses with 11 standout tracks of instrumental piano music and various sounds of every day life and nature. Nielsen composed and played all the music on this release. He offers the demanding and astute listener a combination of classical, jazz, new age, blues, and some that sounds like the old time music that they used to play in movie theaters before they had sound, it has a ragtime feel to it.

I am looking to start a very strongly committed, and heidonistic crew of skilled djs,producers,singers,pormoters,die hard techno fans and artistic people that can work together hand in hand in Melbourne.

The reason is to revive detroit techno and techno minimal for 2006.

A total of: 9 piece for the Band/crew for electronic techno music.

A total of 10 promoters.

A total of 50,000 die hard techno fans(35000 of them must be females aged 22-35).

A total of 3 Graphc designers.

A total of 3 web designers and developers.

A total of 3 editors

A total of 30 Djs(All must be House,Techno, Detroit Techno,Jungle,Drum and bass,Jackin Beats and Minimal Techno).

A total of 2 visual jockeys.

A total of 3 3d animators.

A total of 2 percussionist.

I am looking to start a very strongly committed, and heidonistic crew of skilled djs,producers,singers,pormoters,die hard techno fans and artistic people that can work together hand in hand in Melbourne.

The reason is to revive detroit techno and techno minimal for 2006.

A total of: 9 piece for the Band/crew for electronic techno music.

A total of 10 promoters.

A total of 50,000 die hard techno fans(35000 of them must be females aged 22-35).

A total of 3 Graphc designers.

A total of 3 web designers and developers.

A total of 3 editors

A total of 30 Djs(All must be House,Techno

Once in a great while, you put on a CD by an artist you've never heard of before and time stops. The voice is new, yet timeless. The lyrics are all original yet feel immediately familiar that explore love,loss and the lure of the road, lived-in, knowing. And the melodies expertly performed by a first-rate band carry the easy groove

This is the story of music artist Ruby James who unveiled her CD, "Desert Rose," on April 21st at the Traubadour Los Angeles. Desert Rose is produced by John Avila of Oingo Boingo who was drawn to Ruby James' sultry voice powerful talent and recorded the album with her in his Los Angeles studio. James elegantly fuses rock and Americana with lyrics that explore love,loss and the lure of the road.

"Ruby James' rugged sensuality, which bravely masks a wearied vulnerability, is pure sonic empowerment. With "Desert Rose," Ruby lays bare, in the grand tradition of guitar-slinging blues hitchhikers, her power to wield her own whiskey-soaked chalice and the blade to match," wr

Thousands of video game pirates could face legal action after a developer wins damages from a file-sharer.

As we so often do at the end of the week, let's take a look back at the past week at our sister site and friendly neighborhood blog, Curbed.

1) With Stanley Saitowitz's Congregation Beth Sholom (pictured above, via Natoma) being the subject of debate, the aesthetics of the Richmond got some attention this week. Some neighbors hate the "inverse half-pipe," but it's already racking up design awards.

2) See, there is some good in the world ... or is there?

3) A developer threatened Japantown's (seemingly-weekly) festivals, but then backed down. That was close. Oh, and insert required Japantown-Benihana joke here.

Several days ago, an independent game developer asked pirates a simple question: why? The pirates have responded, and the reasons people pirate games aren't surprising. The challenge is to now react to this information with positive change. Read More...

The Full Hanson and the owners of Beatrice weren't the only ones battling it out with community members last night. Sapphire Strip Club appeared before CB4 to request a cabaret license for their new space in West Chelsea and were faced with major community opposition. In the end, the committee wouldn't decide on the cabaret license due to "renovations that may be taking place without Department of Buildings approval." However, the developer says there's really nothing to worry about: "You can't see into the place, and you won't even know what it is except for the well-dressed doorman standing outside." Curbed

MIDTOWN— Bret Thorn gives a call over to Monkey Bar chef Chris Cheung to see what his plan is now that Graydon Carter bought the restaurant. Turns out Cheung, and most the rest of the staff, are still on the Glazier Group payroll: "Chris said they’re still trying to decide what to do with him — maybe give him a corporate position, although Chris says he’d ultimately like to be back in a restaurant where he can showcase his food. 'It’s a pretty good time to look at all your options, I guess.'" [FWD] PORTLAND— A New York City man who was accused of killing a man in Oregon agreed to plead guilty to murder if the court would give him food in return: "The judge agreed and granted Durham a feast of KFC chicken, Popeye's chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, carrot cake and ice cream. After Wednesday's sentencing, Durham was to get the rest of the deal -- calzones, lasagna, pizza and ice cream, his defense attorney confirmed. They will pay the tab." [CNN via SE] NEW YORK CITY&

Cambridge, Mass. – iZotope, Inc., a leading developer of tools for musicians and audio professionals, today announced that iDrum, its beat creation application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch is now available on the Apple App Store. The new application makes beat-making available to everyone with its simple interface and professionally produced ...

Mark Milian, LA Times:Eight iPhone owners have joined an elite clan: Their Apple gadget is running a program that cost nearly $1,000.When the iPhone first hit the market in June 2007, those who paid the $499 entry price - and signed the two-year AT&T contract - owned a status symbol. A year later, we have the iPhone 3G, Apple's speedier, sleeker and, most important, less expensive smart phone, which introduced a section for downloading third-party applications. Now that the phone is affordable enough for a wider audience, a new status symbol has emerged: a seemingly useless application called I Am Rich.Its function is exactly what the name implies: to alert people that you have money in the bank. I Am Rich was available for purchase from the phone's App Store for, get this, $999.99 - the highest amount a developer can charge through the digital retailer, said Armin Heinrich, the program's developer. Once downloaded, it doesn't do much - a red icon sits on the iPhone home screen like any other application, wit

If anyone's a registered iPhone developer, please make a version of the I Am Rich application that's exactly the same as the original, but free. I tried to make a web version, but the apple-touch-fullscreen meta tag isn't supported yet, and I haven't worked out how to use WebKit CSS transitions [docs] to show the back.

Now that’s a phrase you didn’t expect to hear in the current economic climate.

One of the reasons we settled on Bandon when we moved to Cork was the classic location, location, location. It really is ideally situated in Munster for access to almost everything - Cork City, Airport, beaches, businesses, school, sports facilities etc etc.

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The company's FBFund grant program has never been one of its most publicity-friendly projects, but a new contest that will give away $10 million total may change that.

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Open Labs product developer Matthew Presley demonstrates how to use the new iPhone application BeatMaker in conjunction with NeKo TSE.

The highlight is the way Presley integrates BeatMaker with the NeKo.

Tonight BBC Backstage will be leading a discussion on the changing state of the industry and what changes its making to make sure it stays relevant into the unknown future.

BBC Backstage is a developer network for the public in which the BBC opens its doors to as much data and content as possible. Now in its third year, Backstage is changing to reflect the changes in the landscape and placement in industry.

Ian Forrester, the head of Backstage, will explain some of the changes and outline some the big topics which Backstage are tackling ahead of the rest of the BBC and its unclear future in its new home of Salford Quays.

More details can be found here.

The videos from the talk are now available on blip.tv in Flash, Mpeg4 and Theora (MKV)

Amidst some of the gimmicky options, some serious tools are making their way to Apples mobile platform. Case in point: Faber Acoustical, a developer of audio analysis and acoustical tools for the Mac, has new iPhone apps for generating and analyzing signals. SignalScope is a real-time spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope. Interestingly, its not just for [...]

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic and vehicle developer Scaled Composites rolled out Monday morning WhiteKnightTwo (...