From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jan 10 08:32:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 08:32:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20150110150547.4AC1494091D@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. e-Paint 5 Revision 4 2. GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set Animation Plugins Loops #1, Text Effects #5, Extreme Filters #1, Photo Effects #1, Animated Tiles #1 Updated (Second Notification) 3. PayPal Versus Credit Cards - and a 10% Discount (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Like a downloadable Adventure app for your tablet: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. e-Paint 5 Revision 4 _______________________________________________________________________ e-Paint 5 has been updated. This release: - 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. - Fixes a number of problems with the Texture engine, some of which could crash e-Paint. The others just created really nasty textures. - Speeds up the e-Paint rendering engine for quicker screen updates and more responsive drawing. - Expands the Matrix tile library that installs with e-Paint. - Speeds up the Filters interface, which will help e-Paint boot in less time. - Improves the File menu thumbnails. - Improves the Shape 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. - Updates the documentation. You can download e-Paint 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using e-Paint 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 e-Paint 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set Animation Plugins Loops #1, Text Effects #5, Extreme Filters #1, Photo Effects #1, Animated Tiles #1 Updated (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The library of format plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional 5 and PNG MNG Construction 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 animation rendering engine for quicker builds. - Improve the color management when the plugins are creating GIF animations, for nicer looking results. - Improve the plugin interface, so GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set can do less thinking when they import 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 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: Loops #1: Transform your digital video into professional micro-movies with special-effect end-loop transitions. http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-lp1.html Text Effects #5: Turn your text into animations cool enough to shatter penguins. (We don't want to hear from the PETA people about this.) http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-tx5.html Extreme Filters #1: Process your existing GIF and MNG animations to make them fracture reality, transcend human experience and play power chords on the neighbor's cat. http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-fl1.html Photo Effects #1: Apply animated special effects to still photographs to make them impossible to ignore. http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-fx1.html Animated Tiles #1: Build seamless animated backgrounds for your web pages and other on-line media. http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-tl1.html The plugin updates are available at no cost to previously-registered users of these products. They're $19.99 each if you've yet to experience them. Click on the above links to download their installers. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. PayPal Versus Credit Cards - and a 10% Discount (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ We've received a number of e-mail messages of late asking about our payment options, most notably paying by PayPal. As these issues can get a bit nuanced - this being the new millennium word for "confusing" - we wanted to explain the details. We can accept payment by Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and PayPal. The first four options, all being credit cards, behave in pretty much the same way. PayPal is a bit different. ........................................................................ If you'll be paying for our products using a credit card, you should know that: - The portion of our e-commerce page that collects your credit card information is hosted by our bank, rather than by ourselves. Your credit card number will remain on the bank's servers at all times, and no one else will ever see it - not even us. - Our bank is the Royal Bank of Canada, which has been in business since 1864, or three years longer than Canada itself has. As stable, trustworthy banks go, they have few equals. - Because you don't have to disclose your credit card information to anyone other than the bank, credit card transactions with Alchemy Mindworks are every bit as safe as transactions handled by PayPal. - You can select the NO SHIP option in the Delivery field of our credit card e-commerce page to pass on having a CD-ROM shipped to you for software purchases, and as such, to avoid any attendant shipping charges. ........................................................................ If you'll be paying for our products with PayPal, you should know that: - Our agreement with PayPal requires us to ship physical products for all orders paid by PayPal - in the case of software, this would be an installation CD-ROM. As such, all PayPal orders will involve shipping charges. - Processing PayPal orders involves somewhat more manual intervention than do credit card orders, and as such, you may experience a slight delay before you receive your registration keys if we're swamped. While we're happy to offer PayPal as a payment options, it will prove slightly more expensive for users who don't need a backup CD-ROM. If you're one of them, please consider paying by plastic. It's no less secure, and we'd prefer to see your money stay in your pocket, rather than that of the post office. ........................................................................ We'd also like to take this opportunity to note that as of this writing, our products are still priced in Canadian dollars. If you're located outside Canada, the US dollar equivalent will save you about 10 percent, based on the current exchange rate. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. To remove your address from this mailing list or to change your address, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html Removal requests will be processed instantly. ....................................................................... 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