Show Notes Sunday, October 8, 2006

• Welcome Comments


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• Show Line Up
  


• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to listener Gil Lenger who listens from Algona, WA.
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Two Fallen Heros - Rich
• Suspended Officer Arrested After Brief Chase - Mack
• Man Dies After Taser Incident - Rich
• Ohio Officer Returns To Force with Artificial Leg - Mack
• NY Chief, Two Officers Suspended - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcements from academies or training organizations.  This week we didn't get any new announcements.
  
  
• 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


• We are pleased to be able to assist criminal justices agencies in their effort to identify and hire the best qualified people. 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. This week the City of Mesa, Arizona wants you to know that it has over 90 openings for police officers, including lateral transfers and police officer recruits.
  
  The starting salary for a police officer - recruit is $44,740.80 and increases to $49,379.20 within 12 months.
  
  Your point of contact is Detective Anderson and you can e-mail him at police.jobs@cityofmesa.org or call him at 1-800-884-5480. Check out the department website at http://www.cityofmesa.org.  Be sure to let him know that your heard about the job on CopCAST.
  
  
• We welcome job announcements from any criminal justice agency. Just send the information to talkback@copcast.net and we will do our best to announce your vacancies.
  
  

• Tech Issues


• Vista Take Hard Stand Against Piracy - Mack
• Child Sexual Abuse On-line Training - Rich
• New Cellphones Scream At Thiefs - Mack
• Russians Convicted of Extortion - Rich
• MySpace Drawing 'Older' Visitors - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

If you don't care for having your CD's start running as soon as you insert them into the drive, you can shut off the autorun feature in XP.

Just Click '''Start, Run''' and enter '''GPEDIT.MSC'''

Go to '''Computer Configuration''', '''Administrative Templates''', '''System'''.

Locate the entry for '''Turn autoplay off''' and modify it as you desire.


• Mac User's Tip
  

The Dictionary application and widget in Tiger lets you find a word's correct spelling, meaning, or synonym regardless of which application you're using. Just press '''[F12]''' at any time to bring up the Dashboard and the dictionary widget.

As you type letters into the widget, words that begin with those letters appear. Click on the letter at the left of the widget to switch from a word to the list of words. Click on the Thesaurus option to find words with similar meanings.

Also, in the Dictionary application, press [command]-, or select '''Dictionary | Preferences''' to select the dictionary order, pronunciation, contextual menu, and default font size. You can even listen to the definition - just highlight the words you want read, choose '''Dictionary | Services | Speech | Start Speaking Text'''.

• 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!