Show Notes Sunday, December 31, 2006

• Welcome Comments


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• Show Line Up
  
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello to Michael who listens from Santa Paula, California. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show, Michael.
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Another Fallen Hero - Rich
• Police Shoot Man Who Charge With Socket - Mack
• Traffic Related Cops Deaths Rise - Rich
• Man Drinks Beer During Arrest - Mack
• GA Cop Resigns After Bus Stop Incident - Rich
• Alabama Cop Charged with On-Duty Rape - Mack
• Massachusetts Cop Rescues Man From Pond - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcments from academies and training organizations. This week we have two announcements from the Roanoke, VA Police Academy.
  
  The first is a course entitled '''Evidence Recovery''' that will be conducted on September 13, 2007.
  
  This 8 hour block of instruction will focus on the recovery of evidence and the proper methods for securing and documenting evidence for court.
  
  This class will have the focus on the identification of DNA evidence and the officer's responsibility to identify the potential of that evidence. This class will cover case studies of improperly collected evidence and provide the student with the understanding of common mistakes made in the collection of evidence. This class is designed for both patrol officers and investigators.
  
  The second course is entitled '''Basic Forensic Evidence''' and it will be conducted October 29 - November 9, 2007.
  
  This two week course will include the identification, documentation, packaging, collecting and processing of a crime scene evidence. There is $350 fee for this school for outside agencies.
  
  Outside jurisdictions can contact Ms. Absher at the Roanoke Police Academy (540) 853-2649 for registration information. For further course details contact Sergeant Rick Morrison (540) 853-5437.
  
  
• 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. We didn't receive any new job announcements this week but 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.

• Tech Issues


• High Tech Chess Cheater - Rich
• iPod Vending Machines A Hit - Mac


• PC User's Tip
  

This tip will help you if you ever forget your Windows password. Thanks to XP's Forgotten Password Wizard you can recover your password.

We suggest that you create a password recovery disk the minute you create your user account. In order to create a password recovery disk you're going to need your password. Write it down the minute you create your user account and then proceed to creating your very own password recovery disk.

Here's how to launch the Forgotten Password Wizard:

• Single-click Start menu, Control Panel, and User Accounts.
• Click your user account name.
• Under Related Tasks on the left, click "Prevent forgotten password" to launch the wizard.

Once you've launched the wizard, let it walk you through creating the recovery disk. Make sure the formatted disk you is in the drive. After it's finished creating the disk, label it and store it with your other emergency disks.

If you happen to forget your password, all you need to do is click your user icon at the logon screen. Even though you don't have your password, go ahead and click the green arrow just like you would to finish logging on to your computer. This will launch a little yellow dialog box directing you to use your password recovery disk.


• Mac User's Tip
  

Every now and then a Mac user may have a problem with an application and it may become necessary to force quit the application. To pull up the Force Quit Applications dialog, press [Command+Option+Escape] . Select any application from the list and click "Force Quit."

Rich also told everyone about his quest for two pieces of software that he needed to round out the tools for the Mac.

Check out TextWrangler, a great free text editor from Bare Bones Software and Kompozer, the free open source WYSIWYG html editor for web development. 

• 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 Happy New Year and a great week!