Scholarship Donation Refunds
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- Written by Larry Compton
I will be refunding all DME Resources Sholarship donations received via GoFundMe & the related Facebook Fundraiser as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, I cannot refund via the payment method you used to submit your donation, as neither GoFundMe or Facebook provide a means to do so. In fact, neither platform provides me the necessary information, such as email address or mailing address, to facilitate the refunds.
Therefore, all donation refunds will be provided via PayPal (I would only need your email address) or, if preferred by the donator, I can mail a check (I will need your mailing address).
If you donated to the DME Resources Scholarship program in 2021 via either GoFundME or the related Facebook Fundrasier, please contact me via my contact form with your refund preference and contact information at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your understanding, generosity and of course for your valuable time.
Is Audacity® Your Friend?
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- Written by Larry Compton
You may have read recently about how Audacity® was purchased by the Muse Group, and that the entire world may be coming to an end as a result. Some podcasters, audiophiles and down-right cheapskates alike are beside themselves, due to the flurry of news stories flooding the Interwebs claiming Audacity® is now spyware.
Those who use/used Audacity® should also be aware that the Audacity® team very quickly responded to the community's concerns regarding their new Privacy Notice.
Personally, I have other professional audio editing tools, but I still choose to use Audacity® more frequently than others; and I'll continue to for the foreseeable future.
Keep being great & doing great things, my friends! 
Mental Stress & Mental Health Awareness in Digital Forensics
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- Written by Larry Compton
"Who, me?" Yes, especially you.
Collecting & Processing Video Evidence from Riots & Protests
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- Written by Larry Compton
Turns out I may just know a thing or two about Mass Video Evidence Collection & Processing. Who knew? 
If you're agency is interested in the history of this topic, check out this blog post at OceanSystems.com
Freeware Metadata Analysis Tools (video)
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A brief video discussing the basics of multimedia metadata analysis & some of the Open Source and/or Freeware solutions that can help. Solutions discussed include:
- Exiftools, by Phil Harvey - https://exiftool.org/
- MediaInfo & MediaInfoOnline - https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
- FFprobe & FFmpeg - https://www.ffmpeg.org
- QuickView LT™ free video player (Included in QuickDME™) - https://www.oceansystems.com