From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Dec 27 09:03:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 09:03:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20141227160407.5F3939409A9@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 4 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Plugins Updated (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Think of it as a Boxing Day Sale on treachery, mayhem and madness. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 4 _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a new clock style - experience the Wedge, in two sizes and eight colors. Eye protection is recommended. - Fine-tunes several aspects of the Mariner style from the previous release. - Improves still more aspects of the clock rendering engine. - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now displays an additional window after you complete the validation of this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal. - Adds resizable File Open and Save As windows. You can now make them as big as the universe itself - if you have a larger-than-normal monitor - and they'll stay that way between sessions. - 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. You can download The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using The Ultimate Screen Clock 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new clock styles and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $12.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Plugins Updated (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The library of format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. These releases: - Enjoy more sophisticated memory management to occupy a smaller memory footprint, resulting in better performance... especially on systems with slower processors, limited resources or lots and lots of other stuff happening. - Improve the file handling, for quicker reads and writes. - Improve the color management for those plugins that use it. - Improve the plugin interface, so Graphic Workshop can do less thinking when it imports the plugins, and as such, boot up in less time. - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of the Graphic Workshop plugins to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. These releases of the plugins can be installed right over the previous ones - they will in fact automatically uninstall the previous plugins as part of the install. The updated plugins are: - The RAW Digital Camera Plugin: Enjoy better-than-JPEG image quality from most high-end digital cameras. http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#RAW - The PostScript (EPS, PS, AI, PDF) Plugin: Read and write PostScript, encapsulated PostScript, Illustrator and PDF documents. http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#EPS - The ART Plugin: Read and write AOL Johnson-Grace ART files, the default on-line graphic format for America On-Line back in the day. This plugin also supports PFS Art, should you have a well-oiled time machine interfaced to your laptop. http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#ART - The MOZ JPEG Plugin. Install this plugin and the JPG files written by Graphic Workshop will be about ten percent smaller, with no loss of image quality compared to conventional JPEG compression. We too were shocked when this worked. http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#MOZ - The SFW (Seattle FilmWorks) Plugin: One of the earliest adventurers into the dark heart of consumer digital photography, Seattle FilmWorks offered users of their photofinishing services the option of receiving their pictures on CD-ROMs... back in the twentieth century. They're gone, but a surprising number of their old CDs remain. If your memories are locked up on one, Graphic Workshop can convert those ancient pictures to a modern format. http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#SFW Click on the foregoing links to download the updated plugins. The RAW Digital Camera plugin costs $34.99 - the update to the current release is available at no cost to previously registered users of this plugin. The other Graphic Workshop Professional plugins are no-cost downloads for registered users of Graphic Workshop Professional 5. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 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