Show Notes Sunday, December 17, 2006

• Welcome Comments


• Don't forget to go to Podcast Alley, register and vote for CopCAST as your favorite podcast each month.
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• Link to the CopCAST Frappr Map. Mark your location and leave your picture or a note for the other listeners to read.
• Oh, one more thing, don't forget to check out Rich's blog, The Sisyphus Comments, where you can get some great tips and cop info.

• Show Line Up
  
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello to someone who is very special to me and to the early CopCAST listeners, Deputy Steve Ferguson who listens from Roanoke, VA. Steve was my original co-host when we used to do the show at the academy. He is a great podcast personality and I want to thank him for his contribution to the success of CopCAST.
• Don't forget to pick up a copy of The Brotherhoods - The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia - It would make a good Christmas gift.
  
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Three Fallen Heroes - Rich
• Police Chase Becomes Rescue - Mack
• Soldier Cops Cost Local Agencies - Rich
• Don't Pass On The Right - Mack
• Pretenders Stops Cops - Rich
• Drunken Detective Waves Gun - Mack
• Auction Fraud Ring Busted - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcements from academies or training organizations.  This week there are no new training courses to report. It's Christmas, no one wants to train anyway.
  
  
• 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 we don't have any job annoucements either. It's Christmas, no one wants to hire anyone anyway
  
  
• 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


• On-line Shopping, Skype and Firefox News - Rich
• Reporter Goes Wii, Wii, Wii All The Way Home - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

Are you one of the millions of Windows users who get a message that you have unused icons on your desktop when you start up your computer? It gets kind of annoying after a few years, doesn't it? This is the Cleanup Wizard, another of those Windows features that can drive you crazy. Its purpose is to remove icons that you don't use very often.

If you click on the message, you get a list of icons that you seldom use. You can deselect the ones that you do not want. The weird thing is that Windows creates a desktop folder to store the deselected icons. To restore an icon, you can double-click the folder and drag the icon you want onto the desktop. Am I missing something here?

To stop this maddness:

• Right-click an empty area of the desktop.
• Click Properties and select the Desktop tab.
• Click Customize Desktop.
• Clear the box next to "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days."
• Click OK>>OK.



• Mac User's Tip
  

Finder is not the best application launcher for the Mac but it is fine for most simple stuff. Here are a couple of tips to make finder a more user friendly. When opening a folder in Finder, hold the [Command] key while clicking to open the folder in a new window.

You can also hold the [Option] key while clicking to open the folder in a new window and close the old window.

• 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.
• Do you have a computer and a microphone? Visit our CopCAST Odeo Voice Mail System and leave an audio comment. We may even use your comment on the next show! Just click on the link at CopCAST.net.
  
• You can also contact us using Skype.  Our Skype name is copcast.
• 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!