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Add Holiday Cheer to Windows With Twinkle Bulbs.


Business Editors

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2000

Barefoot Productions has released Twinkle Bulbs(TM) v4.0, an enjoyable Window's 95/98/ME/NT desktop enhancement utility that lets you hang a string of virtual blinking colored holiday lights at the top of (or around) your screen, and add festive holiday music, wallpaper and screen savers Screen Savers may refer to:
  • Screensavers, computer programs intended to preserve CRT monitors from "burn-in".
  • The Screen Savers, a technology-oriented television program that aired on TechTV and later G4.
 to your computer.

Twinkle Bulbs has more than 150 bulb sets, 100 background images, and various music files to add holiday cheer at Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's St. Patrick's or Saint Patrick's may refer to:
  • Saint Patrick's Day, named after the saint
  • St. Patrick's Purgatory, an ancient pilgrimage in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland
 Day, Halloween, Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day

Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St.
, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, and all of the major holidays.

You can change the number of lights as well as their colors and blinking patterns. You can even display broken and burned-out bulbs.

Twinkle Bulbs lets you select and play holiday music, either from its archive of songs, or from your own collection of MIDI files. The program includes a selection of seasonal and special-effect screen savers, as well as a Windows wallpaper changer Changer

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.

The latest version also allows you to build your own bulb sets with the bulb set builder utility. Making a set of custom lights is as easy as dragging-and-dropping icon files on the program and clicking a button.

Barefoot Productions is making plans to allow users to post their own bulb-set creations at the Twinkle Bulbs web site.

Twinkle Bulbs is simple to install and use, and its control panel is easily accessed from the Windows system tray An area on the right side of the Taskbar on the Windows interface used to display the status of various functions, such as speaker volume and modem transmission. Applications also insert icons on the System Tray to give you a quick entrance into either the application itself or some  or from a quick access button on the desktop.

The Twinkle Bulbs 4.0 CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
 costs $24.95 and is available online from Barefoot Productions at http://www.barefootinc.com. A $1.00 donation from each sale will be made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that grants wishes to children (2.5 years to 18 years old) with life-threatening medical conditions. .

For more information, contact Barefoot Productions, 1101 W. Enclave Circle, Louisville, Colo. 80027; phone: 303/665-7843; e-mail: info@barefootinc.com. You can download a trial version of Twinkle Bulbs from http://www.twinklebulbs.com.
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