Welcome
Welcome to our presentation of an important subject: human tissues! This help file should enable you to understand how to overcome any problems which might be encountered using our CDrom. Computer (PC)  technology is a vast area with so little standard configuration left to ensure our customers from a wide field of interest are secure in achieving success with our product. We have chosen elements of configuration and presentation most likely to maximise success and we hope we have succeeded with ensuring you are able to use this CDrom without difficulties or problems. The following notes should help you with any visualised difficulties. Please read them carefully and experiment with their suggestions should you encounter problems. We are here to help if - after reading this file, and trying out recommendations - you encounter further problems. Simply send your query to me, Maurice Smith of Molcol Software by email or by way of a method suggested in our contact file.

Should you need to make contact because of a problem, the more you tell us about your PC environment, the better we will be able to assist you. What operating system are you using (Win3.1, 95, etc,)? What browser and version? What processor? If you forget a few things, okay... but these 3 items are important!
 
 

Terms and Conditions of Use

Accuracy of Information & Liability
Although every effort has been made to produce information which is informed and accurate, Brunel Microscopes, Molcol Software, or Microscopy-UK will be not be held liable or accountable for any error or inaccuracy which may be present concerning the material on this cdrom - except for the single condition that Molcol Software will refund the purchase price of the CDrom is it is returned within 30 days of receipt! Neitther will these parties be considered liable for any consequences which may ensure as a result of inaccuracies or errors.

In all and every event of complaint, should any ensue, Molcol Software's liability is limited to the price paid in the purchasing of the cdrom.

The only liability accepted by Molcol Software is in the return of money paid for this cdrom in the event that a customer is unable to use it due to defection in its configuration or through a physical defect in its manufacture. Such liability is subject to the customer returning the cdrom within 30 days of receipt or within 30 days of receiving a requested replacement cdrom.

Should your CD fail to play, please contact Molcol Software in the first instance by email.

Limitations of Use
This CD and the images, sound, and information it contains is subject to copyright laws. You are welcome to print out our images as part of personal projects which do not involve distribution of them for business or commercial reasons. However, the content of the cdrom must not be mounted on a network or be used except as is from the cdrom. You are limited to using the cdrom on a PC or by moving the cd to any other PC but you must not electronically copy any material from the cdrom and store it electronically on another device. Duplication of material without written permission is not allowed. If in doubt about using material from the cdrom in personal projects or for other projects, please contact Molcol Software for clarification. We will allow use for many reasons without further charge if we believe such use is unlikely to damage further sells of our work and the time and money invested in its creation by us and Brunel. So... if you are not sure - please ask!
 

If you are not willing to accept these conditions, please return the cdrom immediately to Molcol Software, 69 Commonside West, Mitcham, Surrey. CR4 4HB. England, stating you do not accept these conditions and you will receive a refund. CDrom must be returned within 30 days!
 

No Movie (movie won't play?)
Our movie should work on most PCs. Quality of playback will depend on the the speed of your cdrom, your PCs sound capability and the processor speed. You will need to ensure your PC graphics card is able to display 24 bit resolution images for best results.

Images and sequences will look best when viewed in 24 bit colour and in a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, although a usable view is obtained at 800x600 screen resolution. If  your CDRom is only able to play at 1x or 2x speed, you may experience sporadic start/stop playback of video sequences.

We have used the Intel Indeo version 3.2 codec to encode the 56 minute video. The Indeo drivers - any version from 3.2 upwards must be present on your pC for you to be able to play the movie! Indeo drivers are included in most versions of Windows. If you do not have the drivers, we have distributed them on this cdrom in the directory called \vid_drvs. See below!

Video Drivers
There are many methods and formats used to deliver video content by way of CDrom and computer technology. To ensure our video sequences are available to the widest possible base of PC users, we have coded our video using Indeo Codecs in AVI format. Most PCs should have these drivers already installed to play our videos. We encoded using Indeo 3.1 but all of the Indeo codecs up to and including version 5.? are backwards compatible. We have included these drivers on the CDrom in the directory named \vid_drvs. If for some reason, our video will not play on your PC, we recommend you install the appropriate Indeo Video Codec on your PC by RUNNING the most suitable .exe  file from this directory (depends on your operating : Win3.1, Win95, WinNT, Win98 etc.,). Consult the readme.txt file in the \vid_drvs directory for more detailed  information.

Still Images
Around 500 still images taken from the video sequence have been included on this cdrom. The best of these are used for the named subject option where each topic is carefully tutored again to reinforce the learning experience obtained when watching the video.

The best of  these files are in JPG (jpeg) format and are accessible automatically when used the named subject feature from the front index page. Near-duplicate images or ones considered to be close duplicates are not automatically displayed since they are considered as not required. We have included them on the cdrom in case some fine aspect about a close or near duplicate image might prove useful. These images are accessible by manually exploring the image directories on the cdrom.

Your Notes and access to YOUR resources
To ensure our cdrom is not a 'closed' system, we have included a function for you to 'break-out' from the cdrom to access related material (possibly your own notes or files and images created by third parties) which reside on your hard disk drive, network, or floppy disks. To create your part of the link, you need to make (create) a directory from the root directory on the appropriate hard disk or floppy disk and call it \tissues

So if you were using drve C: you would create a directory which would become c:\tissues\

Note:  all lower case letters for directory name.

In this directory you can store your own files in either .html, .txt, or .doc format such that each file is named as in the image example below. We are showing an example here based on you using .txt files but you could create a browser-accessible bacteria.html instead of the bacteria.txt file or in place of any of the other files.

If you create your own html file for each subject, and place further links in your html file to other pages of your material or college material, you can use our cdrom as part of a larger and more intensive training package for students.

Another use of this feature is that students may make their own notes using notepad, wordpad, or Word for Windows and store them on personal floppy disks. Tthey should use a directory called \tissues and filenames shown in the above image example to hold and store their personal notes on their floppy disks. By ensuring each student inserts his prepared floppy disk into the floppy drive prior to using the YOURNOTES feature, he or she will be able to relate to these during the subjct presentations. By clicking on the browser's menu/view/page source, the student can even update his or her notes when using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your main browser.

The YOURNOTES feature allows rudimentary linking between our cdrom and your own resources and ensures there is no need to use up your own hard-disk space to hold copies of our cdrom files.

Access to your resources is achieved by clicking on the refer to your notes tag when viewing the still images for each subject and sub-topic or by clicking on a subject namein the list to the far right in both the movie and main index screen.

Can We Help?
We are currently making additional cdroms for educational and commercial projects. Maybe you have something in mind where our skills at Molcol Software could assist you in achieving your own goals and objectives. We can transfer video to cdrom, work on producing multimedia content for internet, intranet, and cdrom publication. The presence of intranet and internet technologies are a powerful tool in education and commerce. Are you using these tools effectively? We can help ensure you are maximising their use to convey information and interact with students in educational environments and with employees in commercial environments.
Please give us a call to discuss ways we can help you!