(Perhaps you might like to print this.)
Thank you for choosing
ChurchBells.
Every installation
encourages me so much regarding stewardship of time
that went into its making, as it has truly been a labor
of love.
I also respect your stewardship of resources committed
to
the purpose, and am genuinely interested in the long
life and
successful operation of your new bell tower.
Here is some information that you may find useful:
* Using ChurchBells:
Reset Schedule to Default:
With the organization level
license, whenever you perform
the "Reset Schedule to Default", it will omit the silly
tune that
it had for lesser license levels. Using this
feature
is simple:
1) Register your machine.
2) Restart ChurchBells
3) Get past the safety lock screen.
4) Select "Rebuild Schedule DataBase to Default"
from the
File Menu. ChurchBells
will automatically remove every
reference to "Shave and a
Haircut"
from the schedule. It
was put there to prevent demo
or home licenses from being
used in serious, outdoor
installations.
I'm not bothered by
the whimsical little melody
but it does set a casual tone.
Custom Schedules:
With the organization level
license, you can create and
modify your own custom chiming schedules, even add new
songs. A primer on making custom schedules can
be found
in the help menu of ChurchBells.
Please print the
article at this location:
http://InspiredCode.com/contact/cbc1.htm
It tells you all about creating custom schedules in ChurchBells.
Additional ChurchBells Music:
You can find additional music
(only) for use with the
InspiredCode ChurdhBells software here:
http://InspiredCode.net/MoreHymns.htm
Adding Sounds:
In addition to that, please
feel free to use other sounds that
you may find elsewhere. An organization licensed
installation
likes to play any wave file. You can find
information
about how
to add more songs at: http://inspiredcode.net/addsongs.htm
Getting Sounds from Audio CDs:
Before you can use sounds from
audio CDs, they first need
to be copied into Wave files ("ripped"). You can
do that easily
by using an excellent freeware application called CDEX.
(When
you are done "ripping" the CD, you will find your wave
files in
the OutputFiles subdirectory of the CDEX program's
directory.
You will need to rename each file to something that has
no more
than 8 characters, with the ".wav" extension.
General Information:
General information about
deploying
ChurchBells is at:
http://inspiredcode.net/deploy.htm
Your Church on TV:
If you are interested in seeing yourself and or your
church
shown on TV in a very good light, please click here:
http://inspiredcode.net/Video.htm
* InspiredCode Users Group:
Significant Users:
After experiencing some software
companies
not having
time for "insignificant" users like me, I want to make
myself
available to you in an unprecedented way.
New Users Group:
There is a new users group for
InspiredCode
products. It
is not likely to generate very much traffic in your
mailbox,
but
it can keep you up to date on news relevant to
InspiredCode
products, as well as any "bug reports" (perish the
thought!)
direct from users and "fix reports" direct from me.
Obvious Benefits:
I hope it is easy to see the
benefits
of getting us all into
the same virtual room together. I am more quickly
available
when you have concerns. You can see if your
concern
has
already been raised and pending an answer. I can
use the
same channel to let you know that the issue has been
met
and a new update is posted on the site. We are
all in this
together and none of us gets forgotten or left out of
the loop.
Whatever You'd like to Share:
Some issues have nothing to do with
bugs. Rather, it
may be that someone has asked a very good question or
come up with a very good idea that would benefit all
users.
It's really up to how you want to use it, but it is
important
to
me that I am here for you.
Skipping Over Sections:
To be fair, I should mention that
InspiredCode makes a
small variety of different kinds of products, and you
may or
may not be interested in news regarding all of
them.
For
that reason I'll try to include the name of the product
in the
title of the message (or section) so you can skip over
things
as you like.
Here is the Address:
Here is the address of the InspiredCode Users Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InspiredCodeUsers/
Main WebSite:
And, of course, the largest body of information is at
the site:
http://InspiredCode.net
Thank you for your time,
Robison Bryan
InspiredCode.net
PS If you appreciate finding this software Bell Tower
System,
perhaps you could extend this benefit to others, by publicizing
it in the newsletter (or other information service) of your Church's
convention, association or denomination.
For that matter, perhaps you could also think of somewhere that
is Christmas oriented, in which to publicize ChurchBells.
After all, even an expired demo still works every December
(all month, every year) to spread Christmas cheer, so folks might
like to keep the install files handy with the colored lights and
tinsel.