Show Notes Sunday, April 22, 2007

• Welcome Comments


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• Show Line Up
  
  
• Episode 68 is dedicated to the emergency personnel who responded to the Virginia Tech tragedy.
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello to a listener who goes by the handle of bikedeputy1 who listens from Tequesta, Florida. He posted a great picture of himself with his bike on the Frappr map and we want to thank him for listening.
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Three More Fallen Heroes - Rich
• 33 Dead In VA Tech Shooting - Mack
• All Types of Communications Used During Crisis - Rich
• Compassionate Robber Lets Clerk Call 9-1-1 - Mack
• Smokey Got His Ears and Eyes On - Rich
• Getting Sent to the Principals Office Sucks - Mack
• Superman He Ain't - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcements from academies and training organizations.  This week we don't have any new announcements but 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.  This week we don't have any new jobs to announce.
  
  
• 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


• Crackberry Withdrawal and Breaking Up Is Easy To Do - Rich
• Interview with T.J. From PodCop - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

For the PC User Tip this week, we will tell you about a cheap alternative to Adobe Acrobat for generating PDF files. Since Word files can be infected with viruses, some e-mail filters won't even let them through. In addition, there can be compatibility problems between versions so sending Word files via e-mail may not be a good option.

So, if you need to share a document electronically, convert it to a PDF file. PDF files can be read on any computer and the formatting is retained from the original document.

But don't spend hundreds of dollars for Adobe Acrobat. Instead try doPDF, a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application since doPDF is installed as a printer. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

Check it out at http://www.dopdf.com/.


• Mac User's Tip
  

For the Mac User Tip this week, I will tell you about another trick to help you manage your PDF files. Last week, I told you about Skim, a free program that lets you take notes on PDF documents. This week, I want to continue along those same lines by telling you how to use TextEdit to combine multiple multi-page PDFs into one document.

All you have to do is drag each PDF from the Finder into a blank TextEdit document. Just make sure the the document is in Rich Text mode by clicking Format then clicking on Make Rich Text. It doesn’t matter if the PDFs are single- or multi-page; you can mix and match as you wish.

Single page PDFs appear as a page of text and/or images in the document. What is really cool is when you drop in a multi-page PDF, it appears with its own scroll bar, so you can scroll through the PDF within the larger TextEdit window. Of course, you can also add some line breaks between PDFs, just to separate them all a bit more.

Once you’ve assembled your mega-PDF, just click File then Save to store it permanently on your computer.

There is one little draw back to this trick. You can’t print a mega-PDF since it will only print the first page of the embedded multi-page PDF.


• 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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• From the crew at CopCAST.....Have a great week!