Show Notes Sunday, January 28, 2007

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• Show Line Up
  
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello to Anthony Smith who listens from Pelzer, SC. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show, Anthony.
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Three More Fallen Heroes
• Steroid Cops - Mack
• Unhappy Holiday for Arizona Deputy - Rich
• Military Handouts - Mack
• Sealed With A Kiss - Rich
• Maryland Officer Doesn't Want to Move - Mack
• Cops Rescue Woman From Lake - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcments from academies and training organizations.This week we want to announce the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick (Glynco), Georgia, is currently accepting registration for the Police Legal Advisor Training Program (PLATP-701) to be held April 16-20, 2007.
  
  The program is designed for currently employed attorneys providing legal advice and/or training for state, county, and local law enforcement agencies. The forty (40) hour program covers those areas of the law that are most applicable to the function of a legal advisor within a state or local law enforcement agency.
  
  The approximate highest cost for the program (not including transportation) is $672.00. For more information contact:
  
  Brad Lawrence
  Senior Instructor, Legal Division
  (912) 267-2729
  brad.lawrence@dhs.gov
  
  or
  
  Edmund Zigmund
  Senior Instructor, Legal Division
  (912) 280-5447
  edmund.zigmund@dhs.gov
  
  More information on the PLATP can be obtained from the FLETC website at http://www.fletc.gov/training/programs/legal-division/police-legal-advisor-training-program-platp.
  
  Registration forms can be obtained from the FLETC website at http://www.fletc.gov/training/programs/state-local/registration-information/register.pdf/view. Complete the registration form, print it, and fax it to the Legal Division at (912) 261-3635. Electronic registration may not be used to register for this program.
  
  We welcome training announcements from any criminal justice training academy or training organization. Just send the information to talkback@copcast.net and we will do our best to announce your training course.

• Job Opportunities


• We are pleased to be able to assist criminal justices agencies in their effort to identify and hire the best qualified people.  We don't have any new announcements this week but if your agency is looking for qualified people, just send us a little information about the job and we will announce it on the show.

• Tech Issues


• GPS and Stupidity Bad Combination - Rich
• Free Online Photography Course - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

The temporary internet files clutter your hard drive with copies of each page visited. They can build up over time and take up a lot of disk space.

Even more bothersome is that instead of getting new pages each time, IE often takes the page out the temp internet files. This can be a problem if you are viewing a website that is updated all the time.

Of course, if you are on a dial up connection, this can be good but if you're on a fast broadband connection, you can get away with decreasing the size of your temp internet files to just one meg without any performance decrease. Here how to do it:


• Launch Internet Explorer.
• Select the Tools from the menu bar.
• Then select Internet Options... from the drop down menu.
• Once the internet options has loaded click on the general tab.
• Under the temporary internet files section click the settings button.
• A settings window will load. Slide the slider all the way to the left so the size indicated in the text box on the right is one.
• Click OK
• Click Ok


• Mac User's Tip
  

This week for our Mac User Tip we want to help you keep your private e-mail private. If you use your Mac in an office environment there may be times when you want to quickly hide the contents of a mail message that you are viewing in the preview pane.

You can always use command-H, command-Tab, and command-Q, but here is how you hide it within Mail itself by quickly blanking the preview panel’s contents.

Just command-click on the message that’s currently displayed in the message list. Just like in a Finder list, command-clicking an already-selected item will deselect that item.

When you deselect the chosen message in Mail, you won’t have a selection, so the preview area will be blank. You can also hide the preview panel entirely by double-clicking on the bar that divides the preview area from the message list.

However, the command-click method makes it easier to return to preview mode when you’re done being secretive—just click on any message—as the preview panel is still there.

• Closing
  


• Thanks to our partner RLS Enterprises, Inc. - Your Affordable On-Line Training Solution for making this episode of CopCAST possible. Visit their website for more information about providing internet-based training for your organization.
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• From the crew at CopCAST.....Have a great week!