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Myspace. Research Songsmith. What is Songsmith? Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos. The video on this page demonstrates Songsmith at work in the classroom; in fact Songsmith is free for teachers to use in their classrooms. Songsmith is great for anyone who wants to create music at home as well. For a quick demonstration of Songsmith in action, check out our quick tutorial video about creating your first song! Where can I get it? A free trial download is available on our download page. What if I don’t know how to write music?

Songsmith is for you. What if I do know how to write music? Songsmith is for you too. It’s Social Networking for Babies - Twitter From the Cradle - NY. Technology | Video websites 'must vet content&#0. YouTube has been criticised by MPs, who say it must do more to vet its content. In a review of net safety, the Culture, Media and Sport select committee said a new industry body should be set up to protect children from harmful content. It also said it should be "standard practice" for sites hosting user-generated content to review material proactively. YouTube's owners said the site had strict rules and a system that allowed users to report inappropriate content. The committee also wants a rethink on how best to classify video games - but there is disagreement over who should run the new ratings system.

MPs say the same body which gives age ratings to films - the British Board of Film Classification - should be in charge, but the games industry supports its own voluntary code. Effective In its report, the committee said that some websites it had monitored as part of its review had a "lax" approach to removing illegal content. Dark side This approach is completely wrong.

Kongregate: Play free games online. How do you compare? Teens spend 31 hours a week online. How much time do you spend online, America? [Waits for answer.] That’s funny because the average teenager spends a cool 31 hours per week online. And what does the average teen do?

The usual, I guess you can say—instant message friends, surf YouTube, get homework help, view porn, etc. Make that Anytownshire, UK, for that’s where this data comes from. The data breakdown isn’t exactly shocking, either: teens spend 3.5 hours a week instant messaging their friends, two hours on YouTube (two hours?) But the big number, the number that will no doubt be YELLED AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS ON ALWAYS SHOCKED ABOUT SOMETHING FOX NEWS about is the amount of time spent viewing porn. Five Lightweight Apps for Web Trainers and Consultants - ReadWri. Teaching people how to use new tools on the internet is hard.

Learning through experience is the most effective method, but it's slow. More and more of us are finding ourselves teaching other people how to use new web apps and services - sometimes professionally. Though you, elite readers, might consider getting excited about apps that are a year or two old to be painfully behind the times, the fact is that there is huge demand for training in use and application of web apps old and new. Below we offer our list of some of the best apps you can use in this kind of training activity and generally as a consultant or trainer. These are very "training" oriented applications, we'd also love to hear about your favorite applications for other purposes if you're a web consultant. Yuuguu You can show people how to go through multi-step processes by sharing your desktop in a tab of their browser with Yuuguu.

Multi-platform IM Client Jing Annotated Screenshots with Screensteps or Skitch.