Show Notes Sunday, February 18, 2007
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- Show
Line Up
- CopCAST
Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello
to Vicky Kerr
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- Cop News of the Week
- Training Opportunities
- Job
Opportunities
- Tech Issues
-
Cop
News of
the Week
- Two More Fallen Heroes - Rich
- Off Duty Utah Office is Hero - Mack
- Wrong Choice, Asshole - Rich
- More Evidence that Dope Makes You Stupid - Mack
- On-Duty Hand Jive - Rich
- Can You Hear Me Now - Dumb Ass? - Mack
- Multi-Tasking Robber - Rich
- Training Opportunities
- Each week we try to include training announcments from academies and training organizations. This week we don't have any new announcments but 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
- The Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy, located in Ashburn, VA is looking for an In-service Training Manager.
This position oversee all facets of the Academy In-Service training program for all personnel from member law enforcement agencies, ensuring the training needs of all agency personnel are realized.
The starting salary range for the position is $54,520 - $76,000. The starting salary is negotiable, depending on qualifications.
To Apply:
Please send resumes and cover letters in care of Mr. Albert C. Oglesby, the Accreditation Manager at the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy, 45299 Research Place Ashburn, Va. 20147-2600, Telephone Number (703) 729-4299, Extension 118, Fax Number (703) 729-4634, or e-mail aoglesby@nvcja.org.
The announcement will be open and resumes and cover letters will be accepted by mail, e-mail, or fax until the close of business on Friday March 09, 2007. Once your resume and cover letter have been received by the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy, you will be notified in writing (please provide an e- mail address). If you do not receive a return e-mail, please contact Mr. Oglesby.
- 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
- This week we try something new so there is no news.
- iTunes overview - Mack & Rich
- PC
User's Tip
- Mac
User's Tip
- Closing
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- This week for our
PC User tip we give you the solution to a problems that some folks are
having with their iPods and Tunes when they upgrade to Vista.
They have reported problems with iTunes 7.0.2. The problems include iTunes purchases that won’t play, syncing issues and a failure to eject the iPods.
If you are upgrading to Vista, Apple recommends that you enable disk use on your iPod. After the upgrade, connect the iPod, right-click it in iTunes and then deselect Enable Disk Use in the Summary tab then click Apply.
It is also a good idea to deauthorize your music before you upgrade. Just open iTunes then click Store>>Deauthorize Computer, enter your Apple ID and password. Click OK.
If you still experience problems playing purchased music, Apple has an iTunes Repair Tool for Vista that should fix your problems. Just visit: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunesrepairtoolforvista10.html.
- For
our Mac User tip this week we continue with our iTunes theme. Apple's
iTunes is a great media management program and it is available in both
Mac and Windows versions. You can only play iTunes-purchased music on
five computers and each must be authorized with a user name and
password. But what happens if your computer crashes or you may lose
your laptop.
You can still move music to another computer. But you can't authorize it to play. However, you can de-authorize all of your purchases once a year. Then, you can re-authorize your music to play on up to five computers.
Simply, Click Store and View My Account. Enter your user name and password. If you have reached your limit, you'll see a Deauthorize All button. Click it.
With iTunes, you can transfer music from your iPod to another computer. But there's a catch. The computer must be authorized to play your music. And it only works with iTunes purchases.
To sync music from an iPod to a computer, first authorize the computer. Click Store and Authorize Computer. Enter your user name and password. Then, connect your iPod and click File and Transfer Purchases from iPod.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work with music you copied from CDs. Still, it is a great way to move purchased music between computers.
You can also sync iTunes to more than one iPod. iPods do not count toward your authorization limit. If you have multiple Windows XP user accounts, store your music in the Shared Music folder that can be accessed by all users.
iTunes lets you share music over your network. This is handy if your music is on a desktop but you want to listen on your laptop.
Click Edit and Preferences. Open the Sharing tab. On the computer with the music, select "Share my library on my local network."
Select Share entire library. Or select "Share selected playlists" and select the playlists to share. Enter a Shared name and click OK.
On the second computer, click Edit and Preferences. On the Sharing tab, select "Look for shared libraries." Click OK. The shared library appears in the source list. You can't copy music from a shared library.
The iPod is G rated. Some iTunes content is not. But you can set up parental controls. You must have an administrator account with a password. Otherwise, your children could defeat the controls.
Click Edit and Preferences and open the Parental Control tab. Select the options you want to disable. You can disable podcasts, radio, the iTunes store and shared music.
If you leave access to the iTunes store, you can restrict explicit content. Or restrict movies and TV shows by rating. Click the lock and enter your computer account password to prevent changes. Click OK.
Smart playlists are created automatically from criteria you specify. You can create a playlist of your favorite artist. Or you can create a playlist of recently added music.
Click File and New Smart Playlist. Use the dropdown boxes to specify options. Use the "+" to add additional criteria.
You can limit a playlist by number of songs, time or size in megabytes or gigabytes. Select "Match only checked items" to limit it to selected songs in your library. Select "Live updating" to continue to have the playlist updated. Click OK.