Show Notes Sunday, June 18, 2006

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• Show Line Up
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to Sam a listener from Honolulu, HI
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
• Three more heros die In the line of duty this week - Rich
• Police crack down on eating drivers "Australia"- Mack
• Redick Popped for DUI - Rich
• Judge booted for helping suspect evade arrest - Mack
• ICE Arrests Over 2,000 Illegals - Rich
• 10 Dumb Ass of the Week

• Training Opportunities
• There were no new training opportunities this week
• 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.

• Tech Issues
• Yamanner Virus - Mack
• Google Launches Browser Sync - Rich
• Money Lost to Cybercrime Down--Again - Mack
• Google Launches Spreadsheet - Rich


• PC User's Tip
  

Tired of Windows playing hide and seek with the icons in your system tray? For this week's PC Tip, I have the solution. Just right-click the Start button and choose Properties to open your system's Taskbar tab and Start Menu Properties dialog box. Select the Taskbar tab and uncheck the "Hide inactive icons" box.

You can also decide for yourself which System Tray icons you want to see. Leave the "Hide inactive icons" checked, click the Customize button, and then choose each icon one at a time and set its Behavior to "Always show," "Always hide," or "Hide when inactive."




• Mac User's Tip
  
  Sort smarter
  
  If you have got a lot of music and video files, many probably get lost in the crowd. Luckily, iTunes is a database and is great for sorting files but it needs your input. One good way to stay organized is to create smart playlists that let you sort your music by genre, artist, year, or custom tags that you add to the Grouping or Comments field of each song.
  
  The right tag
  
  To get these smart playlists to work well, you need to tag your music correctly. For example, make sure an artist's name is spelled the same way for all of that artist's music, and make sure your genre names are consistent. The databases that provide tags for content from the iTunes Music Store or for CDs that you rip on your own aren't always accurate or consistent, especially when those databases include user-submitted tags.
  
  Change tag
  
  Information for multiple tracks by selecting the songs and then selecting File -> Get Info (or pressing Command-I) -- the Multiple Song Information window that appears lets you alter any of the tags (except the Name tags) for the selected tracks.
  
  Using the Multiple Song Information window, you can create new genres or add comments to groups or files.
  
  Find with smarts
  
  Once everything is tagged correctly, I suggest adding custom comments or genre information. Doing this adds personalized data you can then use as part of a smart playlist that finds specific types of music, select File -> New Smart Playlist, and then adjust the parameters accordingly.
  
  



• Closing
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