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December 24th, 2007 XnView
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Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 When it comes to photo editing, it doesn't get any better than free, particularly if the tool has a reasonable amount of editing tools. And that's what this program has. You'll be able to resize, crop, correct red eye, flip, rotate, and perform a wide variety of image adjustments, including for brightness, contrast, and gamma. It will also convert your pictures among many different image formats. It's not a powerful photo tool like The Gimp, but for most work, it'll do just fine. And you can't argue with free.
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Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98 There was a time, in the not too distant past, when people used to do something very quaint with their photographs --- put them in photo albums, which they would then share with their friends. Those days, of course, are gone. But the idea of the photo album never quite went away, and this program brings it into the modern world.
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| Weekly Brief | 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
December 24th, 2007 Our Top Story: * The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired.
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Read the story * Come Get Some: Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Trailer Debuts
Without further ado, here it is, the ten-years-in-the-waiting-for Duke Nukem Forever teaser trailer.
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A new Trojan horse modifies infected PC's hosts file to replace Google text ads with ads from another source.
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The Chicago Transit Authority (album) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Chicago Transit Authority is the eponymous debut album by the Chicago-based rock band The Chicago Transit Authority, who would later be known as Chicago. It was recorded and released in 1969. Upon the band's 1967 inception, they were initially called "The Big Thing", eventually taking on the moniker The Chicago Transit Authority when producer James William Guercio took them on in 1968. Fusing brass and jazz with a soulful rock and roll feel was their trademark and Guercio instinctively felt that their sound would prove successful, lobbying for his label to give them a shot. The Chicago Transit Authority were signed to Columbia Records late that year and recorded their debut in late January. While Guercio had recently produced Blood Sweat and Tears' second album (which proved to be a huge smash), he did so to raise capital for his band. By the end of The Chicago Transit Authority's sessions, it was clear that the album would have to be a double. Very skeptical, seeing as the band had no track record, Columbia only agreed to the concept if the group would take a royalty cut. In their original incarnation, keyboardist Robert Lamm, guitarist Terry Kath and bassist Peter Cetera all shared lead vocals, while James Pankow, Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider handled all brass and woodwinds and Danny Seraphine played drums. Lamm, Kath and Pankow were the band's main composers at this juncture. Kath's prowess as a guitarist was so strong that even Jimi Hendrix became a major fan of Kath's playing. Released in April 1969, The Chicago Transit Authority proved to be an immediate hit, reaching #17 in the US and #9 in the UK. While critical reaction was also strong, the album initially failed to produce any hit singles, with the group seen as an album-oriented collective. In 1970 and 1971, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (#7), "Beginnings" (#7) and "Questions 67 and 68" (#71/#24 re-release) would all prove to be belated hits. Buoyed by the success of their later albums, the album stayed on the charts for a then-record 171 weeks, and was certified gold (and later platinum and double platinum). While the band toured the album, legal action was threatened by the actual Chicago Transit Authority, forcing the group to reduce their name to, simply, Chicago. In 2002, The Chicago Transit Authority was remastered and reissued on one CD by Rhino Records.
1. Track listing - "Introduction" (Terry Kath) – 6:35
- "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Robert Lamm) – 4:35
- "Beginnings" (Lamm) – 7:54
- "Questions 67 and 68" (Lamm) – 5:03
- "Listen" (Lamm) – 3:22
- "Poem 58" (Lamm) – 8:35
- "Free Form Guitar" (Kath) – 6:47
- "South California Purples" (Lamm) – 6:11
- "I'm A Man" (Jimmy Miller/Steve Winwood) – 7:43
- Trivia: Chicago's versions of this song do not feature the lyrics as written, but as the band misunderstood them.
- "Prologue, August 29, 1968" (James William Guercio) – 0:58
- "Someday (August 29, 1968)" (Lamm/James Pankow) – 4:11
- "Liberation" (Pankow) – 14:38
- A live in-studio performance with no overdubs
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Chicago (band)
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Origin Chicago, Illinois
Genre(s) Jazz-Rock
Rock
Hard Rock
Years active 1967–Present
Label(s) Columbia, Warner Bros., Rhino
Website ChicagoTheBand.com
Members
Robert Lamm
James Pankow
Lee Loughnane
Walter Parazaider
Bill Champlin
Jason Scheff
Tris Imboden
Keith Howland
Former members
Terry Kath (1967–1978)
Peter Cetera (1967–1985)
Danny Seraphine (1967–1990)
Laudir DeOliveira (1973–1981)
Donnie Dacus (1978–1979)
Chris Pinnick (1980–1985)
Dawayne Bailey (1986–1995)
"Chicago" is a pop-rock-blues-jazz-fusion band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental rock band and later moved to a softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had a steady stream of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Second only to the Beach Boys, Chicago, in terms of singles and albums, is one of the longest running and most successful U.S. pop/rock and roll groups. [1] According to Billboard, Chicago was the leading U.S. singles charting group during the 1970s.
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