Show Notes Sunday, August 13, 2006

• Welcome Comments
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• Show Line Up
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to a listener Steve Petruska who listens from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
• Three More Fallen Heros - Rich
• Booby Trapped House Lands Man In Jail - Mack
• Cobb County, GA Recruits Fired for Cheating - Rich
• Rubber Bullets Not Joking Matter - Mack
• Park Police Pop 5 - Rich
• Denver Cop Looking For His Car - Mack

• Training Opportunities
• Each week we try to include training announcment from an academy or training organization. This week we want to announce three training opportunities.
  
  The South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy, located in Columbia, SC will be conducting two great training sessions.
  
  First is the 2006 Testing and Measurement Conference that will be held November 6 - 9 at the South Carolina Educational Television Bank of America Conference Center in Columbia, SC. The sixth annual conference is designed for practitioners in the public safety arena involved with training and education, officer selection, human resources, research and development, and testing and measurement.
  
  Next is the National Leadership Summit that will be held January 15 - 17, 2007. This summit is designed for any practitioner in the public safety field that is involved with or has an interest in leadership training/education. Topics include futures, competencies, best practices, instructor credentialing, accountability and many others. Presenters and panelists have been carefully chosen regarding their experience and area of expertise. I will put a link to their website where you will find additional information in the shownotes.
   
  Finally, the Southwest Law Enforcement Academy, located in Bristol, VA, will be conducting a Basic Patrol Rifle School that will be held September 6 - 8. The fee is $150 and for more information contact the academy 276-645-3700.
  
  
  
• 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
• Dumb Tech Stories- Mack
• Sony Mylo - Rich
• Leopard Highlights - Mack
• Microsoft Releases Security Patches - Rich
• Fantasy Baseball In Court - Mack



• PC User's Tip
  

Wikipedia defines a mind map as a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making. Many of us have been using the mind mapping techniques for years but now there is a free computer-based solution that gives your project planning a bunch of new tools.  Now you have a great software program to do it called FreeMind.

What is FreeMind good for?


• Keeping track of projects, including subtasks, state of subtasks and time recording
• Project workplace, including links to necessary files, executables, source of information and of course information
• Workplace for internet research using Google and other sources
• Keeping a collection of small or middle sized notes with links on some area which expands as needed.
  

In addition to all these great uses, since the program is written using Java, there are versions for computers running Windows, Mac or Linux so everyone can share maps. I will put a link in the show notes. 


• Mac User's Tip
  
  As long as your Finder window is in icon view, you can add a photo as its background. You do this by going under the View menu, under show View Options, and in the background section (at the bottom of the dialog) choose Picture.
  
  Click on the '''Select''' button and the standard Open dialog will appear in which you can choose the image you’d like to appear as the background of your window. Click '''OK''' and that image will appear.
  
  Note: This works only when viewing the window in icon view. if you change to list view, the image will no longer be visible.
  
  

• 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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• Send your comments and suggestions to talkback@copcast.net.  If you have figured out how to record audio files on your computer, attach an audio comment to your e-mail so we can play it during the show.
• From the crew at CopCAST.....Have a great week!