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

Indie developer A Tasty Pixels popular live-looping music app Loopy HD, has been awarded second place in the 2011 Best App Ever Awards for Best Musicians App this week. Both first and second-place...(PRWeb February 01, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/loopy-ios-live-looper-app/indie-companies-app-store/prweb9148020.htm

Enjoy Eater? The Ruby programming language? Building full-stack web applications? You may be in luck. Curbed Network is looking to hire an NYC-based Ruby/MongoDB/jQuery developer, or someone smart and ambitious who wants to grow into one. Salary is competitive and benefits include health care and a matched 401(k). Click through for full job description and details.

The new DAW from the German developer has been designed for composing, live performance and DJing.

mobile social video developer for iOS and AndroidTotal Prize: $100

The developers of the Trump Soho condotel are putting all of the unsold units and the common spaces up for auction. We wonder how this will affect Nello Balan's interest in the space (if that interest is still alive) that was once home to Quattro but is now being refered to sadly as The Restaurant at the Trump Hotel. Crain's via Curbed NY

The filesharing site Megaupload.com has been taken down by the FBI as the Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging seven people associated with the site. The 72-page indictment, handed down by a federal grand jury in Virginia on January 5, charges the seven people, including Megaupload's founders Kim Dotcom and Mathias Ortman, with conspiracy. Four of the people named—including Dotcom, Ortmann, Megaupload.com chief marketing officer Finn Batao, and developer Bram van der Kolk—are in custody, arrested in New Zealand today, according to the FBI. The FBI worked with authorities from New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, the UK and the Phillipines, and in concert with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the case. The indictment charges that the "Mega conspiracy" has for more than five years operated websites that willfully distributed pirated movies, often before their theatrical release, and other illegal copies of copyrighted works, earning the company over $17

Professor Jonathan Zittrain is well-known for his concern that the general-purpose computer may be disappearing. The recent rise of app stores is putting his fears in a new light. After trading some thoughts about the issues in the blogosphere, he and I sat down at our respective keyboards for a conversation about the future of computing. This is a lightly edited version of our exchange. JG: I suppose the place to start is with your concern about “appliances”: single-purpose devices like the TiVo. What’s wrong with boxes that do one thing and do it well? JZ: Nothing’s inherently wrong with single-purpose devices. The worry comes when we lose the general-purpose devices formerly known as the PC and replace it with single-purpose devices and “curated” general-purpose devices. JG: In the last few years, the appliance has taken on a new face, thanks to downloadable apps. An appliance with an app store is no longer just a single-purpose device: it can do all kinds of thi

Battery developer Eos Energy Storage claims to have solved key problems holding back a battery technology that could revolutionize energy storage on the power grid. If the company is right, its zinc-air batteries will be able to store energy for half the cost of natural gas, the method currently used to meet peak power demands.

The New York University School of Medicine is using 3D digital technology for teaching anatomy, a Google Earth for the human body. BioDigital, the developer, plans to develop the virtual cadaver further on its new medical education Web site,biodigitalhuman.com, with the aim of providing a searchable, customizable map of the human body. It will be ...

The future doesn't look bright for the New St. Clair Diner, a greasy spoon in Boerum Hill that opened in 1920 and was renovated in 2007. Earlier this week, mega-developer Joe Sitt of Thor Equities bought the diner's building for $5.4 million in a foreclosure auction and announced plans to develop the entire corner, one of the most heavily trafficked in yuppified Brooklyn, and the two bottom floors of the building into 6,000 square feet of retail space. He told the WSJ, "I'm a big believer in the transformation that's about to happen because of all of the new residents. It's a wonderful opportunity to buy the best corner in all of Brooklyn."

Workers at the restaurant told Eater they didn't know what was in store, but insiders report they probably have about three months before getting the boot from this "best corner." Says one disheartened resident, "The Greek diner is overpriced and kind of shitty, but it is THE destination in Boerum Hill/Cobble Hill for stressed out stroller-pushing parents in need

DARPA is looking to tap the smartphone application development community with experience in creating “adaptive applications.” Current sensor systems, like those being developed for DARPAs Adaptable Sensor System (ADAPT) program, are increasingly complex; they offer advances in capabilities far beyond their current use. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), for example, have become indispensible intelligence, surveillance and ...

Once again, we turn to Beatport's own pool of considerable talent for our Beatport Live series. In this installment, we've got Matt van Ax, a code-crunching software developer with roots in '90s trance and a knack for deep, melodic, boundary-blurring sounds. Listen to (and watch!) his archived session after the jump, and for a taste of his selections, check out Matt's Beatport Live Top 10 chart. Hear more Beatport Live sets from the likes of Bloody Mary, Morgan Page and Catz 'n Dogz on our Ustream channel here. Read more on Beatportal

Apple may be the current king when it comes to app downloads, but Googles Android platform is proving to be a strong competitor, as the company announced that its Android Market had surpassed the milestone of 10 billion app downloads. While it took Google 20 months to amass its first billion app downloads, Androids impressive momentum now has the platforms app store racking up a billion downloads on a monthly basis with relative ease.

Apple released the first developer-only beta of iOS 5.1 to developers Monday night. While it includes a number of unidentified bug fixes, it also adds some APIs that let developers better integrate Siri's dictation input as well as offers a few clues to upcoming iOS devices. Full release notes for iOS 5.1 were published by BGR, though those notes usually do not detail bug fixes or security patches—that information is usually not detailed until public release. However, it is expected that the update will further address reported battery life problems that seem to particularly affect the iPhone 4S. Apple released an iOS 5.0.1 patch recently in an effort to address those issues, but users have reported that it doesn't fully address battery life problems. A source confirmed to Ars that a handful of the new iOS 5.1 APIs allow developers to specifically handle the response from Siri's speech-recognition servers. These APIs don't allow developers to integrate Siri support for controlling an app the way that

The increased functionality and technology that comes packed within smartphones compact shells and other portable devices such as tablets is making them more and more of a must-have item amongst consumers. Apps help to amplify a devices functionality, whether it is for productivity or pleasure. As the tech world becomes crazier for apps, many developers are jumping into the field in an attempt to not only gain recognition, but also financial profit. While most app developers probably have plenty of experience under their belts, some are brand new to the game and very young as well.

EyeBrights, the developer and retailer of micro-LED illuminated reading glasses, has adopted mobiSHADES, an easy-to-use mobile application that allows consumers to virtually "try on" and...(PRWeb November 11, 2011)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8949937.htm

Apple has so far been the only PC maker to support Intel's high-speed Thunderbolt interconnect, but Windows PC users will be able to get in on the fun soon enough: Acer and ASUS have announced that they will ship computers with Thunderbolt ports starting next year. Intel's Mooly Eden demonstrated a Windows-based PC transferring files at 700MBps from an Intel SSD during the company's Intel Developer Forum, according to IDG News. Both HP and Sony had claimed early support for the nascent standard, but HP later changed its mind and decided to stick to USB 3.0. Sony did end up using the tech in its updated Vaio Z ultraportable, but used a proprietary implementation that only works with a special GPU and Blu-ray equipped docking station. With no support outside Cupertino and few peripherals shipping, we wondered whether Thunderbolt would gain wider adoption. That's where Acer and ASUS come in. Both companies, which are working on new ultrabook models to ship next year, say they will ship PCs with Thunderbolt ne

Bolstering its plan to bring the Windows operating system and Windows Azure cloud service closer together, Microsoft has released a toolkit that helps developers use Azure to build applications optimized for the forthcoming Windows 8. The aptly named Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 “is designed to make it easier for developers to create a Windows Metro style application that can harness the power of Windows Azure Compute and Storage,” Windows Azure technical evangelist Nick Harris writes. Windows 8 for desktops and tablets, now available in a developer preview, brings a markedly different user interface based on the Metro-style tiles also seen in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. Microsoft is focusing heavily on integrating Azure, a cloud platform for building and hosting applications, with both Windows desktop and server software. At the BUILD conference this week, Microsoft demonstrated new features that let developers build applications in Windows Server and easily mov

Ubisoft has come under quite a bit of fire for its PC ports, including the recent delayed, DRM-laden version of From Dust. Driver: San Francisco, published by Ubisoft and developed by Ubisoft Reflections (formerly Reflections Interactive), was originally slated to carry the same always-on DRM, but has since been changed so that online verification is only required at launch. Even still, the developers behind the game believe that this type of DRM is a necessity for PC games. "You have to do something," Ubi Reflections founder Martin Edmonson told Eurogamer. "It's just, simply, PC piracy is at the most incredible rates. This game cost a huge amount of money to develop, and it has to be, quite rightly—quite morally correctly—protected. "If there was very little trouble with piracy then we wouldn't need it." Driver: San Francisco will also be the first game to utilize Ubisoft's Uplay Passport system, which gives players a registration code to access additional online content. Since the code is on