From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jun 14 10:24:31 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 10:24:31 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20140614142433.B6158940915@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Behead first. Ask questions later. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of The Ultimate Screen Clock 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 The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will find that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to The Ultimate Screen Clock that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 4. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW This release features some visible changes as well: - New clock style - check out Mirage. - Copy Time and Date feature - right-click and select Copy Time and Date from the menu that appears to copy the current time and date - in your choice of formats - to the Windows clipboard, for inclusion in other documents. See the discussion of Copy Time and Date in the Manual to modify the default formats. - The analog clock rendering logic has been improved. - Several minor and largely theoretical bugs in the rendering engine have been mercilessly stomped. - The screen saver opens in less time. - The clock definition format has been restructured to make the .clock files that define The Ultimate Screen Clock's clock styles open quicker. - The Ultimate Screen Clock requires less memory to run, which will make it and anything else running under Windows quite a 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 download The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run The Ultimate Screen Clock 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 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 Upgrade Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version item of the right-click menu of The Ultimate Screen Clock. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a Find in Browser feature. Select Find In Browser from the right-click menu of a Graphic Workshop browser window and you'll be looking at a field to enter a search key. Quickly locate and step through each file in your current browser that matches your key. This is first of the (entirely too many) features we wanted to implement under the version 4 architecture, and couldn't. - Adds a new filter to the Filter window in View mode. Check out Light Box. It turns digital photographs into eyecatching color halftones. - Fixes a number of minor issues with the initial build of e-Paint UltraLight - 'specially the ones that made the tool palette lose its mind under some builds of Windows. - Addresses an number of user interface and run-time issues in Graphic Workshop itself... mostly having to do with the step up to version 5. - Improves the Properties window in the crop function. - Improves the GWS Camera screen capture to allow it to snag a variety of unconventional windows that used to fox it. - Fixes a minor bug in the Halftone filter. - Fixes a bug in the toggled zoom feature of the View window. - Updates the documentation. - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of Graphic Workshop to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of Graphic Workshop Professional 5 can be installed right over the previous one - it will in fact automatically uninstall the previous software as part of the install. While we're just tickled with how well this worked in house, we are aware that some third-party install managers and security applications meddle with the software installation process, and in so doing might break our clever innovation. If you encounter any issues with installing this release of Graphic Workshop, please let us know what happened. We hasten to add that you'll still need to click on the Enter Your Registration Key button in the opening window of the newly updated Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you allowed Graphic Workshop to save your key to disk last time, this will involve clicking on Next several times and then closing the "thank you" window. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5. ........................................................................ 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 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Do not reply to this message - all returned or replied messages from this posting will be ignored by the server. To remove your address from this mailing list or to change your address, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html and unsubscribe from the list. ....................................................................... 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