From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Nov 22 08:22:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 08:22:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20141122145651.3FC649409CC@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 3 2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification) 4. Surprised to Hear From Us? (Second Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ The Russians used to be even crankier. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 3 _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a new clock style - taste the salt, smell the sea and try not to get cracked across the head by a jib while you enable the Mariner style. Mariner is a mostly digital custom clock style. If you right-click on its entry in the Select Style window of The Ultimate Screen Clock, you'll be able to choose its size and its color palette. We could probably indulge in a few more nautical references here, but we're too classy for that. - Adds an optional delay in the Net Time window at such time as it appears to set your system clock when your computer boots up, to allow for Internet connections that take a while to wake up. See the Net Time Delay field in Setup. - Fixes a really, really nasty bug in the custom clock styles that caused them to leak memory in some situations, eventually crashing The Ultimate Screen Clock and, not infrequently, Windows and all who sailed in her. That might have been one of the aforementioned nautical references we were too classy to indulge in... - Fixes a bug that prevented The Ultimate Screen Clock from appearing in the system tray or notification area under some configurations of Windows. - Improves a number of aspects of the clock rendering engine. - Updates the Copy Time and Date function. - Improves a number of user-interface, GDI and performance issues... these being the things software developers just can't stop refining. - 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 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. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Presentation Wizard 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds Right-click Menu objects to Presentation Wizard documents. Create right-click menus that users of your documents can interact with. See page three of the example presentation that installs with Presentation Wizard for an example of the right-click menu object in action. You'll want to right click therein for the best results. - Speeds up the alpha rendering engine. - Fixes a troublesome resource leak. IMPORTANT: If you're still using Presentation Wizard 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to Presentation Wizard 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from sending Presentation Wizard... and possibly Windows itself... into a dark nether-world from which none ever return. You have to hate it when that happens. - Speeds up the File menu history. - Improves the animation timing. - Fixes several memory leaks in the document runtime. - Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application. - Updates the documentation. - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. You can download Presentation Wizard 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation Workshop 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Presentation Wizard 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/prskey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: ...was something of an experiment. Graphic Workshop has been extensively optimized to maximize its performance under Windows 7 and Windows 8. The result of all this refinement, stealth and treachery has been a measurable performance improvement across the entire application. It's quicker and has a smaller memory footprint. We've been impressed with how well this has worked - it's cool on any platform, but especially when it's running on older, slower systems. While Graphic Workshop still runs under Windows XP and Vista, should you be feeling retro, its current persona may suffer a slight performance hit if it's confronted by antique builds of Windows. Time marches on. In addition: - Graphic Workshop's View window now defaults to showing oversized pictures centered, rather than starting in their upper left corners. You can disable this by unselecting Center Oversize Images In View in the Setup window if you prove not to like it. - Updates the e-Paint UltraLight rendering engine and fixes a really nasty resource leak. - Fixes a number of cosmetic issues in GIF Construction Set UltraLight. - Fixes a number of cosmetic and performance issues in Montage Builder UltraLight. - Fixes a bug in GWS Camera which could cause it to grab the wrong screen area in some... admittedly unlikely... circumstances. - Updates Resource Extractor to allow it to deal with even more weird- beard resource types that turn up under Windows 8. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Surprised to Hear From Us? (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ If this is the first posting to the Alchemy Mindworks Update List you've seen of late, you're not alone. It has come to our attention that several large commercial e-mail providers have installed black hole spam blockers of late... that block way more than just spam. There's a complete discussion of this issue at: http://www.mindworkshop.info/alchemy-mindworks/about-your-e-mail/ You're receiving this posting because we've sent it through a different IP address. This said, the fundamentally broken design behind many black hole spam traps means that they'll likely block this address as well, in time. If our mail to you is being blocked, chances are other messages you'd like to receive are too. It's hard to know when you're not receiving your e-mail. We urge all our readers to contact the providers of their e-mail solutions, determine whether their mail is being subject to one of these brute force spam traps and request to opt out. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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