[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Dec 27 09:03:00 EST 2014
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM
THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST
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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
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1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 4
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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
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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.
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2. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Plugins Updated (Second Notification)
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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.
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3. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html
You can contact us by telephone at (705) 789-5238, and by snail-mail
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