Since 2007 you’ve been able to go online at JamStudio.com and create your own authentic sounding music for free. With an easy to follow tutorial and simple controls on the screen, this internet based Adobe flash website could definitely capture the imagination of even the most amateur musician. Think of it as a music sandbox.
JamStudio.com was created by Dave Edwards and here is a 10 minute interview with him. The online music mixer includes over 40,000 musical phrases played and recorded by real musicians that you can mix to create your own songs. JamStudio.com is free, but you can create an account so you can save and further develop your creations later. For a monthly fee of about $10 you can become an All Access Pass Member and you’ll be able to download all your musical creations royalty free.
If you’ve never seen it before check it out. The online mind reader is guaranteed to at least surprise you. If you vaguely remember the site from a few years back it’s still worth revisiting. Try to see if you can remember how it works.
And if you can’t figure it out, there are some websites and blogs that can help you out.
eHow.com is an online community that strives to give people a place where they can reasearch, discuss and share all kinds of knowledge with anyone. According to their about page they have accumulated over 1.5 million articles and 150,000 videos that were created by experts and ordinary people. If you have something to contribute you can join the eHow Community also.
Take some time out of your day and learn something new today at eHow.com.
If you’d like to delve into some American history this Independence Day the Nation Park Service might have the website you’re looking for. Pulling from their vast historical resources, this one website has a great collection of stories, timelines and biographies from the Revolutionary War. Of course they also offer information about visiting the various parks throughout the nation that have connections to the Revolution.
Whether you are doing serious research or just looking to understand the history of the United States of America, the National Park Service has a website for you to check out!
In a way, Google Books is the original idea that launched Google. According to Google’s own official history of the project, “In 1996, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were graduate computer science students working on a research project . . . Their goal was to make digital libraries work, and their big idea was . . . a ‘web crawler’ to index the books’ content and analyze the connections between them”
By 2004 the technical challenges of scanning millions of books without damaging them had been overcome and Google entered into a formal agreement to scan the public domain content of Oxford University’s Bodleian library. Partnerships followed with Harvard, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library, Oxford and Stanford. Today the list of worldwide Library Partners continues to grow.
Would you like to play a piano, right now? Just go to the free online Virtual Piano and you can do just that. VirtualPiano.net was created by Crystal Magic Studio LTD in London, England. Even if you can’t play a note you can still enjoy trying. And if you can play, you might want to consider entering one of their competitions. Here’s a video of one of their past winners.
It started as a telephone hotline (1-800-CLEANUP) and today it’s a online database of over 100,000 recycling centers in the United States. Earth911.com is the one website that can help you recycle just about anything. Since 1991 this resource has helped people recycle everything from packing peanuts to whole computers.
They’re message is simple: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE & REACT and it’s well worth it to check out their site this Earth Day! So checkout Earth911.com today. And the next time you have something to recycle don’t forget to go online and try out their service.
Maybe the ultimate Internet Moment would be to take some time to just surf the internet randomly. RandomWebsites.net can help you do just that.
From their website:
The Random Web Site Machine is very simple. It lets you surf the web, by sending you a completely random web site. Nearly every site is in our database. Over Four Million Sites. Just click the Random Web Site button below and start killing time… er… I mean start having fun!
TED stands for “Technology Entertainment Design” and was started in 1984 as a conference that brought people from those three fields together. Originally held annually in Long Beach, California, “TED Talks” are also held in Oxford, England (TEDGlobal) and in Mysore, India (TEDIndia) for the first time in 2009.
At their website: TED.com “the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free.” (AboutTED). It’ well worth a few minutes of your day to check out he talks at TED.com sometime today.
LearnTheNet.com was started in 1996 and is owned by a private company in San Francisco California. The goal of the site is to offer free training to internet novices in multiple languages. The layout is simple to follow and the information is easy to read and includes many videos. No topic is too mundane. Emailing, surfing, online shopping and even socializing online is covered.
This site has been popular with businesses, schools and individuals who need to learn the basics. Even if you don’t need the kind of tutorial help that LearnTheNet.com offers you might know someone who does.
Since 2007 you’ve been able to go online at JamStudio.com and create your own authentic sounding music for free. With an easy to follow tutorial and simple controls on the screen, this internet based Adobe flash website could definitely capture the imagination of even the most amateur musician. Think of it as a music sandbox.
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