LP6 User Rated Films 2007

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Jul

31

2007

Amarok 2.0 sneak peak

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Although Amarok 2.0 is still months away from being released to the Linux community, the Amarok blog site has posted an update on the state of development. Amarok 2.0 is being built from the ground up for the upcoming KDE 4.0 desktop and will feature extensive use of Plasma…”the cool new new desktop and widget technology in KDE4.” One of the more notable additions is the Apple iTunes like coverflow technology built into Amarok 2.0. New features that are shown : Read more

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Jul

31

2007

Chow Chow - Colours And Lines

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Artist : Chow Chow
Album : Colours And Lines
Release Date : May 21, 2007
Website : http://www.emmapollock.com
Label : Fantastic Plastic
Free Downloads : Limbs
Rating : 8.0
1 Star 2 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars 5 Stars 6 Stars 7 Stars 8 Stars 9 Stars 10 Stars (5 Votes, User Rating: 7.6)

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Jul

31

2007

Architecture In Helsinki Tour Dates

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Free Downloads : Heart It Races

10/10/2007 @ Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom %*
10/11/2007 @ New York, NY - The Gramercy Theatre %*
10/12/2007 @ Brooklyn, NY - Studio B %*
10/13/2007 @ Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club %*
10/14/2007 @ Buffalo, NY - Tralf Music Hall %*
10/16/2007 @ Chicago, IL - Metro %*
10/18/2007 @ Toronto, Ontario - Lee’s Palace %*
10/19/2007 @ Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe %*
10/20/2007 @ Tempe, AZ - Soco Music Experience ^
10/22/2007 @ Ann Arbor, MI - Bling Pig #*
10/23/2007 @ Madison, WI High Noon Saloon #*
10/24/2007 @ Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar #*
10/26/2007 @ Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre #*
10/27/2007 @ Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue *
10/29/2007 @ Seattle, WA - The Showbox #*
10/30/2007 @ Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom #*
10/31/2007 @ Eugene, OR - W.O.W. Hall
11/01/2007 @ San Francisco, CA - Fillmore #*
11/02/2007 @ San Diego, CA - House of Blues #*
11/05/2007 @ Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour #*
11/06/2007 @ Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour #*
11/07/2007 @ Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour #*
11/09/2007 @ Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre #*
11/12/2007 @ Norman, OK - Opolis #*
11/13/2007 @ Denton, TX - Hailey’s #*
11/14/2007 @ Austin, TX - Emo’s #*
11/15/2007 @ New Orleans, LA - The Republic #*
11/16/2007 @ Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder

% = w/ Lo-Fi Fnk
# = w/ Glass Candy
* = w/ Panther
^ = w/ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Girl Talk and Cold War Kids

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Jul

31

2007

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tour Dates

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08/01/2007 @ Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre
08/02/2007 @ Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
08/04/2007 @ Chicago, IL - Grant Park
08/05/2007 @ Baltimore, MD - Pimlico Race Track
08/07/2007 @ New York, NY - Webster Hall
08/16/2007 @ Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
08/18/2007 @ Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
08/21/2007 @ San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
08/22/2007 @ Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre

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Jul

30

2007

Invisible Waves

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Movie : Invisible Waves
Release Date : March 2, 2006
Country : Thailand
Director : Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring : Tadanobu Asano, Hye-jeong Kang
Run Time : 130 Minutes
Website : http://www.invisiblewaves.com/
Editor Rating : 7.0
1 Star 2 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars 5 Stars 6 Stars 7 Stars 8 Stars 9 Stars 10 Stars (10 Votes, User Rating: 6.6)

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The talented and, nowadays, quite prolific Mirah returns with a new album from K Records on August 07, 2007. Her new record “Share This Place: Stories and Observations” is a collaborative effort, featuring Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson of Spectratone Internation. The record was originally commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art to create an “insect inspired song cycle.”

This wouldn’t be the first time Mirah has collaborated on an album with art minded individuals, if you recall her 2004 album “To All We Stretch The Open Mind.” On “”To All We Stretch The Open Mind” Mirah collaborated with Seattle’s Black Cat Orchestra to make a stunning album of anti-war songs. Read more

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Jul

25

2007

May 18 (Splendid Holiday) released in Korea

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An eagerly awaited movie for the summer season in Korea is the film May 18. The movie is based on the real life Gwangju massacre that occurred in South Korea on May 18, 1980.

The Gwangju Massacre occurred after then president President Chun declared martial law. The next day, on May 18, students in the city of Gwangju gathered in front of the Chonnam National University to protest the closing of that university. Armed forces stationed around the university quickly responded with violent force. The violence quickly spread throughout the city of Gwangju as the students moved their demonstration to the Read more

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Jul

25

2007

ATI Linux Driver 8.39.4 Released

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AMD-ATI, sticking to their recent monthly update schedule for linux drivers, has released ATI Linux Driver 8.39.4. The new driver doesn’t appear to feature a whole lot of new features, but issues Fedora 7 users have had with downgrading their xorg to work with ati drivers should now be resolved. Owners of the R600 series will still have to wait for ATi linux support, as the new Linux driver doesn’t support video cards in the R600 series as of yet. Read more

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Jul

24

2007

The National to appear on Letterman Show (07/24)

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The National has released one amazing album called “Boxer”. That one would easily be one of my favorite albums of this year. While on my six week vacation, I used the ubiquitous iPod frequently and Boxer by the Nationals would have been the album I listened to the most. Album is very good on first listen, but like most great albums, gets better with each listen. Anyways the band will appear on the David Letterman tonight July 24th so make sure to que up those PVR’s. Should be fun to watch.

Album Review : Boxer
Free Downloads : Fake Empire

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Jul

24

2007

Google Desktop for Linux

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In a splendid move by Google, the company has recently released Google Desktop for Linux. The program provides search results for files residing on your local hard drive and the internet. Similar to the Linux program Beagle, Google Desktop provides more advance search features than earlier generation search programs. Google Desktop for Linux searches not only by file name but also the data within files (PDF, Open Office documents, mp3’s, jpg’s) for more accurate search results. The end result is near instantaneous search results for files and folders that you are looking for.

Unlike some of Google’s Linux version of Picassa, Google Desktop for Linux is a native Linux application not dependant on Wine. Desktop for Linux officially supports Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5, but easily runs on most other Linux distrubitions that has glibc 2.3.2+ and gtk+ 2.2.0+. Since this is Google’s first version for Linux, the Linux version is more barebones than its Windows counterpart. Gadgets and sidebars does not come with the program, just the desktop search application itself. For me I found that to be a positive with less bloat.

INSTALLATION

Installing Google Desktop for Linux was a breeze. Depending on your distro of your choice you have several different ways to install the application. Easiest manner would be to download the Google Desktop deb (Debian based) or rpm (Fedora based) from Google’s website and double click the file once the download is completed.

SETUP

Once installed Google Desktop will automaically start indexing your computer on your next login or the first time you launch Google Desktop. Depending on the size of your hard drive the initial indexing can take hours. Don’t let that scare you away because the indexing happens in the background and you don’t notice much of a performance hit while the indexing is occuring.

Of course privacy is a big concern with any type of indexing program and Google Desktop has easy to set controls for how you want your files indexed. By clicking “Google Preferences” either from your system menu or the desktop icon a well layed out control panel will open in your default brower.

On my Kubuntu system, Google Desktop opened up by the default Konqueror browser. I actually preferred to have the program open in Firefox. The way to switch default browsers for other people wanting to do so would be to select Firefox in KDE System Settings/Default Applications/Web Browser/Default Component. This did open up Google Desktop in Firefox but I found that Firefox took noticeably longer to open than Konqueror so I reverted back to Konqueror.

Google Desktop can search through a myriad of different file types including : Text files and source code, PDF & PS files, HTML, Email from Thunderbird, OpenOffice documents, Image and music files, man pages, file and folder names, and Gmail accounts if you provide login and password the preferences control panel. You can easily adjust what files are indexed via the Google Desktop Preferences. Some examples of how you may want to want to modify the desktop search.

If you have specific files or folders that you dont want indexed : Select “Google Preferences/ Local Indexing/ Don’t Search These Items” and click the “Add file or folder to exclude” and then select the folder or file you want excluded.

If you don’t want to index your web history : Select “Google Preferences/ Local Indexing/ Search Types” and uncheck the box for Web History.

If you want to exclude specific websites from being indexed : Select “”Google Preferences/ Local Indexing/ Don’t Search These Items” and type in the url for the website you want excluded.

If you don’t want Google Desktop to keep track of deleted items : Select ” Google Preferences/Local Indexing/Remove Deleted Items” and check the box for “Remove Deleted Items”.

If you want Google Desktop to temporarily stop indexing : Right-click the Google Desktop icon and seletect “Index–> Pause Indexing” from the pop up menu.

Also in the Google’s Preferences there is a fourth tab for “Other”. The only option in that tab is to enable “Advanced Features”. It should be noted that Google’s Advanced Features are …”Enabling Advanced Features will allow Google Desktop to collect a limited amount of non-personal information from your computer, which is then sent to Google. This includes summary information, such as the number of searches you do, the time it takes for you to see your results, and application reports we’ll use to improve the program.” I chose not to enable the information sharing to Google.

USAGE

Actually using the program was useful and problem free. You can conduct searches via the Quick Launch Box or with your browser. To initiate the Quick Launch Box you can either tap the Cntrl key twice or click the Google Desktop icon. If you would rather use your web browser you can right click the Google Desktop icon and select “Show Homepage” or just go to Google.com and click the Desktop link above the search box.

Either way once the application is launched, the program did work well retrieving files. The benefit of having a program like Google Desktop over a locate function is that Google Desktop can search inside of files (PDF, ODT) for relevant content. Results were comparable to Beagle, but Google offerd a few more options like indexing your Gmail account (also Google Desktop does not use Mono). A useful benefit for indexing Gmail could be if you have a laptop and are not currently connected to the internet. You can still quickly browse your email offline.

Linux is all about choice and its nice to see programs coming from all areas. Google Desktop for Linux does work well and offers features that worked well and unobtrusively. I prefered Google Desktop over Beagle because of Google Desktop’s ability to index Gmail and the fact that it’s not dependant on the dog slow Mono library. Well done G people.

Pros :
Native Linux application.
Easy to control search parameters.
Index your Gmail account.

Cons :
Closed Source.
Program can feel resource intensive at times.
Gadgets/Sidebar are not included (Depending on your point of view could be a positive).

1 Star 2 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars 5 Stars 6 Stars 7 Stars 8 Stars 9 Stars 10 Stars (10 Votes, User Rating: 6.9)

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Jul

24

2007

Saturday Looks Good To Me - Cold Colors

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Artist : Saturday Looks Good To Me
Album : Cold Colors
Release Date : July 24, 2007
Website : http://www.slgtm.com//
Label : Polyvinyl
Free Downloads : Meet Me By The Water
Rating : 5.5
1 Star 2 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars 5 Stars 6 Stars 7 Stars 8 Stars 9 Stars 10 Stars (2 Votes, User Rating: 5)

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2007 Albums, Music Reviews |

Jul

24

2007

Download Cagney and Lacee’s cover of Borderline

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Sometime between the days of Luna and Dean & Britta there was Cagney and Lacee. The duo featured Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500) along with his then wife Claudio Silver. The duo released a few singles and an album called “Six Feet of Chain” (featuring all cover versions) over the course of their brief career. If anything, the sounds of Cagney and Lacee were an interesting precursor to what we have today with Dean & Britta.

Over at the “A Head Full Of Wishes” webpage they have just uploaded a downloadable track by Cagney and Lacee covering Madonna’s Borderline. Truly an inspiring rendition of a timeless classic. Maybe not, but I dig it! Read more

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