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Mar 27, 2018 - Recording Studio

The Toronto Public Library now has free recording studios -- available at the following locations. Please call to inquire about availability, booking and equipment.

* Toronto Reference Library - 416-393-7007
* Fort York - 416-393-6203
* Agincourt (part time recording studio space) - 416-396-3717
* Albion (part time recording studio space) - 416-394-5184

The studio spaces provide users with a quiet environment and equipment and software to work on audio and visual projects: film a new movie; shoot a commercial; work on a video for school; record a song; or create a podcast.

torontopubliclibrary.ca

Jul 26, 2017 - PhotoRec, Digital Picture and File Recovery

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.

PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPLV v2+). PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again.

www.cgsecurity.org

Jun 21, 2017 - Promote your blog

17 Things You Should Do to Every Blog Post Before + After You Hit Publish:

1. Write an effective post title with these two characteristics: It includes keywords or phrases; It is persuasive or encourages someone to click through.
2. Divide up text into smaller sections with headings.
3. Deep link to past posts.
4. Add a question at the end to encourage discussion.
5. Add on-brand, SEO-ready images.
6. Add "alt text" to your images
7. Add a featured image (on WordPress).
8. Make sure my post is SEO-tastic.
9. Proofread.

After You Hit Publish:

1. Pin your post image onto Pinterest.
2. Schedule it to be pinned to any Pinterest group boards that are relevant.
3. Share your post on Facebook and Twitter.
4. Schedule your post for Twitter several more times.
5. Do a Facebook Live about your blog post topic.
6. Respond to comments.
7. Check the analytics of your post to see how much engagement it received.
8. In 1-2 months, repin your post onto Pinterest.

www.melyssagriffin.com

May 18, 2017 - KeePass: a portable password manager

KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it's nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish.

Many free how-to videos on YouTube.

sourceforge.net/projects/keepass

May 10, 2017 - Protect Yourself Online

Do you get creeped out when an ad eerily related to your recent Internet activity seems to follow you around the web? Do you ever wonder why you sometimes see a green lock with "https" in your address bar, and other times just plain "http"? EFF's team of technologists and computer scientists can help. We engineer solutions to these problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Our projects are released under free and open source licenses like the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, and we make them freely available to as many users as possible. Where users face threats to their free expression, privacy, and security online, EFF's technology projects are there to defend them.

www.eff.org

Oct 20, 2016 - How to see all the companies tracking you on Facebook -- and block them

Any app you've used with Facebook can still access your data, unless you restrict or delete it. And all the apps your friends use can also access your info. Here's how to take back your privacy.

Once you're logged in to Facebook, go to "Settings" and then "Apps". You will see all the apps that have access to your profile. You can customize the settings for each one, or you can delete them.

Watch this video to see the process of editing the settings.