[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com
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, youre 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, youre 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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