From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Oct 18 08:48:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:48:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20141018142019.79B4894030A@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Pagan Daybook 5 Revision 2 2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop (Second Notification) 4. Negative on POODLE 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Save over $200 per month on your cable or satellite bill!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html Read books... the one at the above link would be an excellent choice. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Pagan Daybook 5 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ Pagan Daybook 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds multiple screen saver modes. In addition to just orbiting your screen, the screen saver window now knows a number of new tricks. You can configure its options with the Screen Saver Mode combo in Setup. The default Random option will display a different mode each time the screen saver activates. The Infinite Loop option will return Pagan Daybook's screen saver to its traditional orbit. See the section of the Pagan Daybook Manual that deals with Screen Savers for more. - Addresses a number of potential issues in the screen saver. - Fixes a troublesome resource leak. IMPORTANT: If you're still using Pagan Daybook 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to Pagan Daybook 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from turning you into a newt when you least expect it. - Addresses some metrics issues in the Window Size feature. - Improves the speed of the fractal texture generator responsible for the backgrounds in most of Pagan Daybook's nicer themes. - Fixes a bug in the music player. - Updates the observance database. - Updates the Credits window... this one thrilled us as well. - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of Pagan Daybook to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook, 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 Pagan Daybook 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you allowed Pagan Daybook to save your key to disk last time, this will involve clicking on Next several times and then closing the "thank you" window. - Fixes a bug in the PNG import library that could crash the File Open window or the application itself if a grey-scale PNG file were selected for the Personal Days feature. - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. - Updates the documentation. Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at: http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/ You can download Pagan Daybook 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Pagan Daybook 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Pagan Daybook 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Pagan Daybook 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Improves a number of aspects of the File menu history feature. - Optionally prevents very large source graphics from appearing as thumbnails in the File menu - they'll show up as check marks. Really big pictures can make the PNG MNG Construction Set File menu a bit slow to wake up the when the application first boots. You can configure this option through the Maximum Preview Dimension field of the Setup window. - Addresses a number of performance issues in Animation Wizard to make it quicker and to improve its color management, which will result in more attractive finished animations in many cases. - Fixes a very subtle and potentially nasty resource leak in the Animation Wizard's folder tree, which could crash PNG MNG Construction Set and potentially destabilize Windows. IMPORTANT: If you're still using PNG MNG Construction Set 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to PNG MNG Construction Set 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from biting you somewhere impolite when you least expect it. - Fixes a bug in the PNG import library that could crash the Animation Wizard window and several File Open windows if a grey-scale PNG file were selected. - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. You can download PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 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 PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Yes, it probably does depend a lot on what takes your breath away... If you're among the tens of thousands of Graphic Workshop users who don't follow us on Twitter - we're in no way offended by this - you'll likely have missed the ongoing tweets that deal with often-overlooked features of the known universe's most popular image management software. Graphic Workshop's ability to do practically everything that can be done to pictures makes it relatively easy to use it every day for years and still miss a few of its better tricks. Here are ten more of the finest features you never knew it had, fresh from the Alchemy Mindworks Twitter account: - Avail your photos of texture with the Canvas filter. - Now includes e-Paint UltraLight - like Photoshop without the financing. - Transmute anything into light & color with the Neon filter. - Refine your photos with Photography Workshop. - Be a star with the Shape Mask filter... or a sun, or a cube... - Transform PDFs into graphics with the Postscript plugin. - See the world through a downpour with Water Drops filter. - When reality just doesn't cut it, try some fractals from the Texture and Fractals feature. - Build instant distributable photo montages with Montage UltraLight. - Manage duplicated files with the Keep Both option of the Overwrite Files prompt. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 4, we invite you to enjoy all the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool things to click on - for half the new-user registration price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/upgrade.html See http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Negative on POODLE _______________________________________________________________________ Despite every fiber of our beings insisting that the Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption web server vulnerability issue must have been someone's idea of a lame joke on a slow news day - because, yes, that phase does result in the acronym POODLE - it really is a thing. We'd like to take this opportunity to note that the Alchemy Mindworks web servers have been tested for the recently-discovered POODLE vulnerability, known in more serious circles as CVE-2014-3566. POODLE is not present on any of our systems. Your downloads and transactions with our web servers remain secure. Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society, perhaps? _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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 Removal requests will be processed instantly. ....................................................................... 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