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Directions for Flickr Creative Commons Search

The Stars of Niagara Falls (Explored)

The Stars of Niagara Falls (Explored) - Photo used under Creative Commons Licensed from John A. Ryan

Flickr.com is one of the best resources on the internet for easy access to a wide variety of photographs, but many of those photographs may be protected under personal or commercial copyrights. Photographs licensed under the Creative Commons License can be used without needing to apply the Fair Use Test talked about at the beginning of the year institute day.

Flickr offers an easy way to ensure that the searches you do only return Creative Commons licensed content. Theresa McGee, 32&U Member from Monroe, has created an easy to follow handout for doing these searches. The handout is attached below, and is available in the copyright resources section of the Resources tab.

Flickr Creative Commons Search Handout

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Learn to Play the Guitar Online – Music – Lifehacker

Learn to Play the Guitar Online – Music – Lifehacker: ”

Learn to Play the Guitar Online
By Adam Pash, 12:30 PM on Thu Aug 13 2009, 31,393 views
We’ve shown you how to learn to play an instrument online in the past, but CNET’s Don Reisinger has a great roundup of even more resources for the job, focusing primarily on the guitar.

The guide features several great web sites for polishing your guitar chops, including All Guitar Chords and Chordbook, two solid-looking resources for learning your chords. Reisinger does feature one drumming resource (which also looks really great) called VirtualDrumming if the guitar isn’t your instrument of choice. If you’ve always been eager to teach yourself to play an instrument, both our guide and CNET’s suggestions look like good places to start.

Already consider yourself somewhat of an expert on your musical instrument of choice? Let’s hear your best tips for getting started in the comments.

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(Via lifehacker.)

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Mac 101: Spaces

Spaces is a cool way to keep the computing experience uncluttered on your Mac. It allows you to assign specific applications or windows to function in a group while temporarily storing the rest off screen on another virtual desktop.

To turn spaces on, simply click the spaces icon (pictured to the right) in your dock or applications folder or ask your building tech for help.

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Beginning Mac: iChat

TheAppleBlog has launched a new series called Beginning Mac to help users learn so of the coolest and most useful features built right into Mac OS 10. When appropriate, I will be linking to these stories here.
Please keep in mind the content at this link is not written by CCSD181.

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Google Training Videos

We now have a collection of Google Training videos available for checkout from your building MRC, or online on the Tech Department Wiki. These videos focus on using Google Gmail, and Calendar.
Access the online training videos:

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