limewire

According to their official site, Limewire is a "fast, easy-to-use file sharing program" and is "compatible with all major platforms...running over the Gnutella network, LimeWire's open source code."

Started in 2000, Limewire focuses on file-sharing technology, specifically peer-to-peer networking, where users can share their music, video, and other multimedia and text files over the Internet. Limewire has received positive reviews for its product, including CNet Australia, Linux.com, and Music-Software-Reviews.com.

Limewire is currently located in New York City. Downloads of their freeware product are available through their own site and via CNet's Download.com, with the latter offering further reviews and information regarding their product.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “limewire”

• Downloading Music using Google

  
  Jayce Nugent DotCom — Authority: 123
  Tired of using Limewire or Kazaa or Torrents to search for music only to find crap. Google makes it easy to download songs. Whether you are looking for Britney Spears, the Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Sean Kingston, Shinedown, or Beyonce, you can find it on Google. No need to download extra software. [...]
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• Album review: The Alarm – ‘21′ (The Twenty First Century Recording Company)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  The Alarm calls itself “the world’s most enduring rock & roll band” — and that may not be an exaggeration. Formed nearly three decades ago and influenced by the first wave of British punk, the Welsh group faced critical rejection but soldiered on to earn no fewer than 16 Top 50 singles in the U.K. After ...
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• Is Limewire A Good Application To Use To Get Video Content For My Mobile Ppc And Portable Video Player?

  
  Web Tech Blog Updates — Authority: 164
  I have a Zune and a mobile windows PPC. I would like to get video content. Is Limewire a good place to get video content (not porn but perhaps TV or movie clips)? What application can I use to convert the videos to mobile size? Bookmark It
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• Album review: Humble Pie – The Atlanta Years (Steve Marriott)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  Humble Pie’s The Atlanta Years could just as well be called Steve Marriott, The Atlanta Years , as the singer/songwriter/guitarist is the driving force behind these recordings. Marriott had relocated to the Peach State in the 1980s and re-formed Humble Pie once again after the lineup (Marriott, guitarist Bobby ...
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• Album review: Claude VonStroke – ‘Bird Brain’ (Dirtybird)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  San Francisco-based DJ/producer/label mogul Claude VonStroke can rock a house party but also knows you don’t always have to drive the mixer into the red and make the speakers smoke. He’s well aware, especially on his latest full-length, that sometimes less — as in volume, tempo and overall digital madness — ...
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• Album review: Thelonious Monk – ‘Piano Solos: From the Archives’ (Essential Media Group)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  This album finds Monk alone at the keyboard, a mode he’s been captured in a few other times in his career, but Piano Solos comes at a crucial point in his discography. Recorded in 1954, between the end of his Prestige period and the beginning of his tenure on Riverside, this session was originally released on the ...
  5 days ago

• Free MP3: The Protomen – “Light Up The Night”

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  They don’t call it Music City for nothing — Nashville, Tennessee’s Music Row has long been home to the country, gospel, and contemporary Christian music industries. But while Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry and Country Music Hall of Fame enjoy their status as national landmarks, the city’s underground is a ...
  6 days ago

• Album review: Various Artists – ‘Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via the Great Unknown’ (Forthesakeofthesong)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  There have been a number of tributes to the late, great country/folk outlaw poet Townes Van Zandt, but this one offers an interesting angle, coming as it does from an underground alt-folk perspective. The artists taking part range from cult heroes (Jad Fair of Half Japanese, The Lilac Time’s Stephen Duffy, The Be ...
  6 days ago

• Review: X-Press 2 – “Lazy” / “Muzikizum 2009″ (Skint)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  The opportunity to have former Talking Head David Byrne sing on one of your songs comes along, well, once in a lifetime. So it’s no wonder that British house trio X-Press 2’s 2002 collabo with Byrne, “Lazy,” has once again received the remix treatment. Vancouver-based newcomer Lazyrich’s re-rub opens with a ...
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• Download: Free LimeWire Store Dance Music Sampler + MP3!

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  House music began in Chicago’s underground clubs and warehouses in the ’80s. Three decades later, the genre continues thrive …and produce chart-topping hits from artists based all over the world. House Sweet It Is is a FREE 15-song sampler comprised of some of the hottest acts making music for the dance floor. ...
  6 days ago

• LIMEWIRE BASIC 5.4.0 BETA

  
  Free Download — Authority: 547
  [/center] LimeWire Basic 5.4.0 Beta LimeWire is a fast, easy-to-use file sharing program that contains no spyware, adware or other bundled software. Compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella network, LimeWires open source code, is freely available to the public and developed in part by a ...
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• LimeWire version 5.4.0 released for Snow Leopard

  
  ithinkdifferent — Authority: 524
  LimeWire 5.4.0 Beta has been released for Snow Leopard. Regarded as the fastest P2P program on the planet earth, LimeWire brings with it new features along with a few bug fixes. One of the notable additions to LimeWire 5.4.0 is the ability to watch a video file within the application. LimeWire 5.4.0 features The ...
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• Album review: Junk Culture – ‘West Coast’ (Illegal Art)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  The college town of Oxford, Mississippi, wouldn’t seem to be an electronic-music hotbed, but Junk Culture is yet more proof that innovative knob twiddling often comes from the unlikeliest of locales. Sampling video games, Indian music, old-school disco, soul, and hip-hop, and classic drum beats from the likes of ...
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• Free MP3: Panther – “Love Is Sold”

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  The latest installment of LimeWire Store’s Ear to the Ground series shines the spotlight on Portland. OR. Curated by the staff of Willamette Week , the 17-track compendium features some of the city’s brightest up-and-coming talent, including Lifesavas , Pure Country Gold , YACHT and Starfucker . ...
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• Album review: Billy Arnold – ‘Do You Remember’ (LAG)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  Country music has always been a part of Billy Arnold’s life, ever since his childhood in Florida. Claiming Conway Twitty and Alabama as his musical influences, Arnond manages to show his talent without sounding like anyone else. This album will be a treat for those who prefer their country music with a modern sound, ...
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• Artist Profile + Free MP3: Brooklyn Funk Essentials

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  Brooklyn Funk Essentials , who were mentored early on by legendary producer Arthur Baker, have been mixing funk, jazz, hip-hop, world music, and more into a percolating multi-culti sonic stew since the early ’90s, even though they took a hiatus for a while. These days, the group is back on the beat, still touring in ...
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• Album review: Gemma Ray – ‘Lights Out Zoltar!’ (Bronzerat)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  You can call U.K. songstress Gemma Ray a singer-songwriter if you want, but not if you mean it in the generic sense, because on her second album, Lights Out Zoltar! , Ray shows such unbound imagination in the sonic settings of her tunes that she neatly avoids pigeonholing. There’s so much stylistic variation from ...
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• Album review: Sub Focus – ‘Sub Focus’ (Ram)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  UK-based drum ‘n’ bass DJ/producer Nick Douwma’s production career hearkens back to 2003, when one of his early demos fell into the hands of jungle kingpin Andy C of Ram Records, who immediately signed “Down the Drain” to his Frequency sub-label despite the jock’s newbie status. Since then, Douwma, who ...
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• Album review: CFCF – ‘Continent’ (Paper Bag)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  Montreal-based producer Mike Silver, a.k.a. CFCF , had blog-heads furiously hitting the download link with his remix of HEALTH’s “Before Tigers” and his EP, The Explorers , which featured a fierce collabo with Sally Shapiro. Now we hear his cinematic full-length, Continent , a which is equal parts Air, DJ ...
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• Album review: Chuck Prophet – ‘¡Let Freedom Ring!’ (Yep Roc)

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  After some 25 years of Americana-soaked sonic adventures, first with his band Green on Red and then as a solo singer-songwriter, Chuck Prophet should get a dollar every time anyone anywhere uses the term “roots rock.” On Let Freedom Ring , Prophet proves that it’s possible to work up a piston-pumping batch of ...
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