Show Notes Sunday, March 11, 2007

• Welcome Comments


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• Show Line Up
  
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello to ColdHeartFemale, Los Angeles, California. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show.
  
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Another Fallen Hero - Rich
• Cops Save Woman - Mack
• Off-duty Chicago Officer Attacked By Gang - Rich
• Justice, Saudi-Style Sucks - Mack
• Ouch! This Hurts On a Variety of Levels - Rich
• Hero Cop Mounts Bus Rescue - Mack
• Dope Crashes Into Trooper - 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.
  
  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


• This week we don't have any new job announcements.
  
  
• 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


• iTunes and Vista Don't Play Well and Free Audio Books - Rich
• The Real Google Phone? - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

For this weeks PC user tip I want to tell how you can forget about the Start button and put about 20 things on the Quick Launch bar for easy one-click access. So why not use it.

When an item falls out of use, erase the shortcut. They're only shortcuts, so it doesn't matter if you erase them.

If there are too many items within the Quick Launch bar to be displayed within the current area, two little arrows (>>) are displayed. This indicates that other Quick Launch icons are present but are currently hidden from view.

To see the hidden icons, click on the double arrow to see a pop-up menu, or click and drag the edge of the main toolbar area (just to the right of the Quick Launch bar) to expand the space available for the Quick Launch bar.


• Mac User's Tip
  

For this week's Mac user tip, we have a great way for you to read your ebooks or PDF file without any unnecessary distractions.

With an ebook or any other PDF open, just choose View > Slideshow (or just press Command-Shift-F).

Your screen immediately goes black and displays just the current ebook page.

Click the Fit to Screen button in the transparent slideshow toolbar to expand the page to the full size of your screen.

You won't be able to see or click on bookmarks, but you can click on any link to follow it, and Web links load invisibly behind the slideshow rather than switching to your Web browser.

You can hide the toolbar by clicking anywhere outside of it, but it returns to obscure the bottom of pages as soon as you move the cursor, so keyboard navigation is generally best.

To navigate between pages, press the left and right arrow keys or left and right square bracket keys.

Press Escape to exit slideshow mode. The only other keys that do anything are F (for switching into full screen mode) and A (for switching back to actual size).

Nearly every other key just beeps when pressed. Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what Tab, R, and L do, since they don't beep.


• 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!