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Show Notes Sunday, August 21, 2005

We would have been dead in the water without the help of Adam Christianson of the Maccast podcast at http://maccast.com. The Maccast is one of my favorite podcasts that deals with all things Macintosh. Adam patiently answered all of my questions about podcasting in general and helped me select the equipment we needed to get things going.
We want to thank Ranger Al Cire, of the Virginia Division of State Parks for helping with the lead-in. Al made a special trip to the digital command center to tape the lead in.
Thanks to Sheriff Roger Surber, of the Salem Sheriff's Office, for making my man Steve available to co-host the podcast. Of course Roger did say he was only able to make Steve available since he was not critical to the mission of the sheriff's office.

Select your operating system (Windows or Mac OSX) in the left column
You may want to uncheck the the two check boxes unless you want to receive mail from Apple
Enter your e-mail address in the box and click the Free Download iTunes 4.9button
In the download box that pops up, select Save to Disk, select your Desktop as the location and click "OK"

Go to your Desktop, locate the iTunes installation file (iTunesSetup.exe for Windows and iTunes4.9.dmg for Mac OSX), double-click the file and follow the on-screen instructions.

On the third screen, you should select the option to insert shortcuts but only select the second option if want to make iTunes your default audio player and the third option to make Quicktime your default video player.

Leave both boxes checked in the file finder window if you want to use iTunes as your main media player, otherwise uncheck them
On the next screen, deselect the option to take me to the iTunes library (well go there later)

You may or may not see files in this window, depending on whether you added files from your computer
In the left column click Podcast"

On the bottom left area of the right column, click the arrow next to the words Podcast Directory to open the podcast section of the iTunes store
In the left column, second section, there is a search box.
Type copcast in the box and then click the magnifying glass next to the box
The CopCast podcast should be the first in the list of the result
In the price column, click the subscribe button
Select Subscribe and iTunes will download the newest epsiode of the podcast and will continue to download each new episode

We also recommend Ipodder which can be downloaded at http://www.ipodder.org.
Just follow the installation instructions once you download the installation file to your desktop.

We discussed several of the more interesting changes to the Virginia State Code. You can download an overview of the changes by clicking here.
Many academies have a complete on-line in-service training program that includes the significant changes to the Code of Virginia. Contact your academy to see if you qualify to enroll in these courses.
For information on how your academy can offer on-line training, send an e-mail to talkback@copcast.net.

Join us next week when we will be discussing the NIMS and ICS initiatives with our guest in the hotseat George Gotschalk of the Department of Criminal Justice Services.