Laying back in my chair with my feet on the table, hence the foot in front of the camera occasionally. Okay, maybe not occasionally – just all the time.

Their website is still the same though, including the “the vault” bit set to "coming soon”, which means that soon still means the same today as it did in January 2008, and still with the awesome design and terrible navigation.

They do seem to have their act together though, as they put it themselves: They utilize the most innovative protection techniques and protocols to ensure that your art will stay in its original condition, no matter how long the journey. This is English for: they know their shit.

Their image gallery is quite impressive actually, and it gives a good impression of how serious they are about things. Temperature controlled vaults, good packing material, and even a custom climate control vehicle. If you need your art moved somewhere, they make sure it doesn’t melt.

In the previous review I wrote for these folks I was making fun of their cheesy slogans. I forgot one back then: Mind’s eye: Imagine that.

SET FOR SEPTEMBER 8TH RELEASE ON VIRGIN RECORDS

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*SAOSIN Play Warped Tour’s Hurley Stage Through August;*

*Multi-Platform Pre-Release Download Promo Partnering With Alternative Press *

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(*July 14, 2009 – New York, NY) – * Bracingly crunchy and soaringly melodic, vibrating with all-out rocking ensemble work and emotional urgency, the second album release *In Search of Higher Ground** *by Orange County, CA-based rock quintet *SAOSIN* has been set for release September 8, 2009, following a barnstorming summer playing this year’s Vans Warped Tour.

Maintaining a hair-raising energy level throughout, the album, *IN SEARCH OF SOLID GROUND,* is the much-awaited end product of writing, tracking and mix sessions that Saosin fans have witnessed online in real time since last summer, with songs written and tracks demoed in the Costa Mesa, CA studio of global youth brand Hurley, where they self-produced several final album tracks. In early 2009, Saosin worked with producer Butch Walker (Sevendust, Fall Out Boy, P!nk) which resulted in 5 songs on *In Search Of Higher Ground. *They also worked with John Feldman (The Used, Good Charlotte, Story Of The Year) who produced 2 tracks and with Lucas Banker/Logan Mader (Five Finger Death Punch, Soulfly, Machine Head) on 1 album track. Band guitarist Beau Burchell mixed all songs on *In Search of Higher Ground*.

In the run-up to the September release, the album will enjoy added advance visibility through an album download card promotion with *Alternative Press*, with cards sold onsite at the band’s merchandise table, *AP*’s Warped Tour tent, and on the magazine’s website. The card bundles an *AP* subscription with a day-of-release album download, delivered by e-mail zip file, and two instant album track downloads, all for $15. Saosin will do numerous signing events at the *AP* tent through the summer, and banner ads will run online through the period.

Touching both the anthemic and the intimate, “I Keep My Secrets Safe” and “Deep Down” are early-album keynotes, and the style of IN SEARCH OF SOLID GROUND, both finessed and hammer-fisted, emerges in the moody, insightful and unsparing “Changing,” “The Alarming Sound of a Still Small Voice,” “It’s All Over Now,” “What Were We Made For?” and “On My Own.” Along the way are royal kiss-offs like “Why Can’t You See” and “Say Goodbye,” a balladic “Nothing Is What It Seems,” and the complex, building 8:30 album closer “Fireflies.”

Saosin will play the Hurley stage for the balance of this summer’s 2009 Vans Warped Tour (full schedule below). The band will continue to use Twitter to keep in touch with fans, tweeting stage times daily, and also running album listening session contest at select Warped stops through Twitter. It is the band’s fourth go-round with the festival since 2004. Veterans of the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tours, 2007’s Projekt Revolution tour and April, 2009’s Bamboozle Left festival, Saosin has shared the stage memorably with such bands as AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, Incubus, Taking Back Sunday, Underoath and many others in recent times. The band also has *Come Close*, a live CD/DVD set, to its credit.

Praised by *Rolling Stone* for its “sheer intensity,” “powerful” by the *LA Times* and as “massively buzzworthy” by *Alternative Press*, Saosin’s first self-titled Capitol album has sold over 300,000 units since its 2006 release. Three new songs, combined with bonus acoustic tracks, from the 2008 Hurley on-line sessions were released as *The Grey EP,* sold on the band’s fall tour with Underoath, and on-line exclusively at hurley.com.

*Saosin *is comprised of *Cove Reber* (vocals), *Chris Sorenson* (bass),*Alex Rodriguez * (drums), *Justin Shekoski* (guitar) and *Beau Burchell *(guitar).

For more information on *Saosin*,* *please visit www.myspace.com/saosin , www.twitter.com/saosin or www.saosin.com

For album cover and photos of Saosin, please visit www.emimusicpublicity.net

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*In Search of Solid Ground** *Tracklisting:

1. I Keep My Secrets Safe 2. Deep Down 3. Why Can’t You See 4. Changing 5. On My Own 6. The Alarming Sound Of A Still Small Voice 7. Say Goodbye 8. The Worst Of Me 9. It’s All Over Now 10. What Were We Made For 11. Is This Real 12. Nothing Is What It Seems (Without You) 13. Fireflies

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*Saosin on the Vans Warped Tour*

7/14 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion

7/15 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake P.A.C

7/16 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion

7/17 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center

7/18 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum

7/19 Englishtown, NJ Raceway Park

7/21 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center

7/22 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Amphitheater

7/23 Charlotte, NC Verizon Amphitheater

7/25 Miami, FL Tinker Field

7/26 Tampa, FL Vinoy Park

7/28 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheater

7/30 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater

7/31 Detroit, MI Comerica Park

8/1 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

8/2 Shakopee, MN Canterbury Park

8/3 St. Louis, MN Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

8/4 Kansas City, KS Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

8/6 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway

8/8 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds

8/9 Denver, CO Invesco Field

8/12 Nampa, ID Idaho Center

8/14 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium

8/15 Quincy, WA Gorge Amphitheatre

8/16 Portland, OR Columbia Medows

8/19 Fresno, CA Save Mart Arena

8/20 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/32

8/21 Marysville, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre

8/22 San Diego, CA Cricket Amphitheater

8/23 Los Angeles, CA Home Depot Center

If this works then it will make life much easier!

Now here’s how you can enjoy that space even more:

1. Portable apps

On http://portableapps.com you find a whole range of “portable” applications. Portable means that they can run on most windows systems without having to run a setup program. The point of this, is that you can carry around a USB stick with all the applications you use, and run them anywhere. You can pick up work where you left between pc’s.
This all works perfectly fine on dropbox as well. You just put the apps in your dropbox folder on any of the PC’s you got dropbox installed on, and dropbox will keep them synced. Close portablefirefox on your computer, drive to work, start portablefirefox and your tabs and bookmarks will be there the way you left them at home, and vice versa.

There are portableapps that are not on portableapps.com, so if your application is missing just google “portable [name of your application]” and you are likely to find out whether someone already tried to run the program you want off a USB stick. Examples of apps I use are Google Chrome, and Actionoutline.

2. Map dropbox to a drive

I am not familiar with any elegant way to map a folder to a drive in Windows, so I use what I have been using since DOS 6 or so: the subst command.

Here is how you do it:

rightclick on start, and choose open. Then open the folder Programs, then Startup. Then rightclick anywhere in the white area(just don’t do it on a file) and choose new –> shortcut.

Now you should be presented with a window that asks you where you want the shortcut to link to:

In windows XP and Vista, the path to the subst command is this:

C:\Windows\System32\subst.exe

But that is not all! You need to add the drive letter that you want to assign dropbox to (I used B) followed by a colon, a space, and then the path to your dropbox folder. If the path to your dropbox folder contains spaces, then it needs to be put between quotation marks.

You can find the path to your dropbox folder by rightclicking on your wee dropbox icon in the system tray, and choosing preferences. 

So in my example, the full text for the shortcut is:

C:\Windows\System32\subst.exe b: "C:\Users\Hoo Hoo Nick\Documents\My Dropbox"

With the quations marks. That’s right, not without, but with.

Now you can enjoy dropbox as if it is its own drive:

Unfortunately, windows does not allow you to name this substituted drive anything, and as you can see it shows the same amount of free/used space as the drive that your dropbox folder is on. How is it handy you might ask?

Well, if you install a (portable) app on your dropbox or save a file to it, rather then browsing all the way to your dropbox folder you can just type the path quickly , for example b:\apps\chrome or b:\pics\epicbutt.png. It makes live easier

3. Restoring backups

Did you know that you can access your dropbox files via their web interface as well? You can even get access to files you may have deleted or overwritten by accident!

Here’s how you do it. First you go to http://getdropbox.com and log in with your username and password. Alternatively, you can rightclick the wee dropbox icon and choose the second option from the top, web interface.

When you hover over a file here, you will notice a little triangle at the very right side of the selection box: Click the triangle for some extra options. You will find the standard and obvious choices like move, copy, delete, download and so forth, but the real revolutionary thing here is the one at the top, Revisions. Click it.

This will present you with some revisions of the file:

As you can see, for the particular file in question there are seven pages of revisions! The least recent one was 21 days ago. 20 days ago I actually accidentally deleted the file, and restored it as well.

At that point I of course could not hover over the file to find an older revision, as I deleted the file and it was not there. What I had to do then was simply click on and then the files were all there, only in grey. I could then use the “revisions” link as if I had never deleted it.

I hope that was helpful for those that already have dropbox, as well as those that need a solution like this.

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