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Dennis Golombek is an avid photographer and camera club member and he decided to use the digital media template to keep track of the images he enters into competition. He added new fields for competition dates, scores, judges’ name and judges’ comments regarding the images. He plans to keep track of all the digital images he enters for the monthly competitions that his camera club runs.

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Although Dennis’ idea may not seem to be very complex it is an excellent example of the sort of thing that Bento can be used for. By his own admission, Dennis is of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) philosophy and likes to have his programs do just what he wants them to do and nothing else.

Before getting into teaching art Dennis was a newspaper police reporter and then a forensic photographer (crime scenes, fatal accidents, autopsies, fingerprints … CSI kind of stuff before DNA was being sought). He taught art as well as computers mostly at the middle school level before retiring after 25 years in 2005. Obviously his interest in computers and photography continues and he competes regularly in monthly photo competitions at the Twin Cities Camera Club.

Dennis’ site can be found at http://web.mac.com/mrgee59/Site/Main.html.

Wendy Lee and her husband run Tiannan Woods Goats (http://tiannanwoods.com) in Philadelphia, TN. They have a small herd that they are raising to sell as meat. It is important that they keep careful records of breedings and in particular the following types of information:

• Knowing when the does are ready to kid
• Knowing when to give vaccinations
• Keeping performance records of the kids as they grow so that they know if they are feeding them too much or too little
• Tracking prices
• Tracking farm expenses

There are herd keeping programs available, but most of them are either for Microsoft Windows, are too expensive or are just not really what they needed. They have tried keeping records in a spreadsheet which works but is not ideal and since Wendy got a new iMac for Christmas which came with Leopard installed and a preview of Bento she decided to give it a spin and soon knew that she had found what she needed.

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