[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat Oct 18 08:48:00 EDT 2014




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     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




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     1. Pagan Daybook 5 Revision 2
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     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


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     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    



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     2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 
        (Second Notification)
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     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


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     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     



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     3. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop (Second Notification)
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     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.



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     4. Negative on POODLE 
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     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.

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     and their Rehabilitation Into Society, perhaps?



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