Play music live with your friends online!

JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application giving unique opportunity for friends in different locations to play music together in Chrome browser using their computers. No matter what your level of experience - from music pros to aspiring air guitarists - you can JAM together in real time over the web.

The application is developed by Google Creative Lab, and uses HTML5 web technologies, including Web Audio API, Websockets, Canvas, and CSS3 to allow up to four players to jam and play together right straight for their browser. When you play your part, your browser will notify other users’ browsers which notes to play, how to play them, and how to animate the user interface.

You may select from a list of total of nineteen different instruments available, including drums, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard, hip-hop drum machine, and a distorted electric guitar (for more fun). There are two modes – easy and pro. The easy mode offers visitors pre-programmed autoplay functions, while the pro mode gives the full control of the instrument through the use of a keyboard.

Website: http://www.jamwithchrome.com/

Test suspicious files with free online scanner - Jotti

How safe you are when you are working on your computer? You may consider it relatively safe if you are not connected to the Internet and you are not plugging any external drives or recorded media. But that is not going to happen – you need your computer to be connected to the World; that is largely what computers for.

So, how to keep your connected devices as safe and secure as possible? Anti-virus, anti-malware, personal firewall – all that really helps. But does not guarantee 100% success. The “badware” developers are really creative in their efforts to succeed.

Jotti – free online malware scanner – offers one more potential level of protection. It is useful for the cases when you receive a questionable file or email attachment which might be loaded with malware. Do not take a chance - upload a file to Jotti, and the site will scan it for malware, using more than 20 security suites, embedded in the site functionality. Note that there is a 25MB limit per file, you may upload for inspection.  

Be aware that all uploaded files are shared with anti-virus companies so detection accuracy of their anti-virus products can be improved. Therefore, if you do not want your files to be distributed, refrain from submitting.

Additional information is offered about the loaded file as well, such as:

• File size
• File type
• MD5
• SHA1

The site interface is available on multiple languages. You do not have register or login to use it.

Website: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

How to create your personal Cloud?

Recently term “cloud” became popular in relation to the virtual data storage solutions. There are multiple popular cloud services such as Goggle Drive, Dropbox, Box.net, iCloud, SkyDrive and etc., and most of them offering free limited storage plans. These systems are based on the centralized servers storing data, uploaded by users, and the clients downloading any contents on the client devices as needed. However, there are significant drawbacks and limitations, when you are storing the data at the server. Reliability, security, and limited free options are just few of the common concerns.

There is a new concept of self-served personal computing, when users are allowed to operate their own clouding systems on their own devices, like computers, smart phones and tablets. It is like having a private data center or virtual server at home on your desktop computer with ability for all other computers and mobile devices to tap into private data cloud, stored in shared locations of the virtual server computer.

The advantages are numerous:

1. You are in power of your entire network, and there is no dependency on any of the third-party servers.

2. Your clod is cross-platform, so devices with any OS - Windows, Android and Mac OS X and other – can use the solution.

3. It is totally wireless – no cables, no Bluetooth, your Internet speed will guide the data transfer.

4. Easy and straightforward backup and synchronization – multiple copies guarantee the most valuable data is safe.

5. Real time access to the data from all devices.

6. Easy sharing files with friends.

If such idea seems attractive to you, you can review the following services and choose one, which looks more suitable for your personal needs:

1. Self Cloud

Website: http://ifmw.mobi/

2. Sync Box

Website: http://www.isyncbox.com/

3. xCloud

Website: http://www.xcloud.cc/

4. Tonido

Website: http://www.tonido.com/