From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat May 10 09:05:34 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 09:05:34 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20140510130535.192A49409AB@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 5 2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 Patch 20 (Second Notification) 3. VERY IMPORTANT: Site News (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Alchemy - since the world was flat. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 5 _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Graphic Workshop Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8. While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop Professional 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as thumbnail management. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Graphic Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 4. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW This release features some visible changes as well: - Graphic Workshop Professional 5 now includes e-Paint UltraLight, a simplified version of our popular painting and digital darkroom application. - The Crop window has been refined, with a better user interface and the addition of a Properties window to allow the crop dimensions to be set numerically. - The aforementioned thumbnail manager for Graphic Workshop's browser windows is considerably quicker. - Most of the graphic file format readers are significantly faster. - Graphic Workshop requires less memory to run, which will make it and anything else running under Windows quite bit speedier, especially on systems with limited system resources. Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at: http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/ You can Graphic Workshop Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 prior to after May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop Professional 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html ........................................................................ PLUGINS Almost all the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 5 - the exception is the JPEG 2000 plugin, which will probably be a few days getting through the pipe. If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this plugin. All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 Patch 20 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ This release of The Ultimate Screen Clock 4: - Adds several intense new animated digital clock styles - be sure to experience Quark, Quark Outline and Vapor Lock. These styles are available in two sizes ? the Large size may not be suitable for systems with slower processors or restricted resources. Note that the Quark styles may cause you to become unstuck in the matrix of space-time and coalesce in an altered reality if you look at them for extended periods. Just thought you'd want to know that. - Fine-tunes the metrics for a number of clock styles. - Addresses several issues in the World Time at a Glance window. Middle-click in the Ultimate Screen Clock's application window to experience this feature, should it have hitherto eluded your notice. - Improves the performance of the clock rendering engine. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues. - Addresses some Windows 7 and Windows 8 issues. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 is available for download at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html ........................................................................ If you'd like to see a gallery of the current clock styles that ship with The Ultimate Screen Clock 4, please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clockstyles.html ........................................................................ As of this writing, if you're still using The Ultimate Screen Clock 2, you can upgrade to the new version 4 software for half price. Please see http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. VERY IMPORTANT: Site News (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ If you haven't been receiving the postings to the Alchemy Mindworks update mailing list every weekend of late, your e-mail is probably being blocked. Chances are that you're missing more than just the latest news about Graphic Workshop - it's hard to know when you're not getting mail. We've become aware that there's a new and unusually aggressive blacklist turning up on a number of large commercial mail servers, and it appears to be pretty indiscriminate about what it blocks. Thus far, we've had questionable success at being removed from it. We've undertaken some considerable stealth and treachery to allow this week's posting to sneak around it. If you suspect your mail is being blocked, consider contacting your ISP or mail provider and request that you be allowed to opt out of their anti-spam solution. 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