Professional Community to be Discontinued as of 1/1/2024
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On January 1, 2024 the DME Resources Professional Community will be discontinued and shut down.
Thank you to all who have helped me help so many over the last 20+ years. If interested in any of my future musings, please look for me on LinkedIn or X (@Digital_4ensics).
All the very best, my friends, always. 
Giving Thanks & Thanks for Giving!
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Today I am honored to report that we made a $2,390 donation to Marshall Univisity's Cyber Forensics & Security program, thanks to the many generous donations we received earlier this year.
Thank you to all of those who donated earlier this year, then re-donated their original donation to support this gift in memory of my dad and brother. You can view the contribution on Marshall University's Donar Wall.
Keep being great & doing great things, my friends...and have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Is Audacity® Your Friend?
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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!
Collecting & Processing Video Evidence from Riots & Protests
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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