From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Thu Feb 19 21:54:21 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:54:21 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20150220025740.D460A940286@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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From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Thu Feb 19 23:36:35 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:36:35 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20150220043639.4BC229409CC@mindworkshop.com> This is a message to subscribers of the Alchemy Mindworks Update mailing list. It appears that due to a malfunction in our mailing list software, an old posting was sent to a number of subscribers. It references The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 4. It dates back to the beginning of 2015, and should be ignored. Please accept our apology for this unintentional posting. Our regular weekly posting will go out on Saturday, February 21 2015. From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Feb 21 08:43:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 08:43:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20150221143800.5A1369409F7@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 6 2. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 7 for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification) 3. Steven William Rimmer's Novels on Kindle Unlimited in Canada (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Some things are extinct for a damned good reason. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 6 _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds Text Overlay. Apply your choice of text watermarks, captions, copyright notices and other content to your animations. The Text Overlay function is available in the GIF Construction Set Block menu. - Rewrites the primary GIF reader to make it quicker, and to clean up the status bar so it no longer appears to be chasing a drunken ferret when GIF Construction Set opens a large file. - Fixes a bug in the Banners function which could prevent the Antialias setting from being recognized correctly under some builds of Windows. - Fixes a bug in the Buttons function which could prevent the Antialias setting from being recognized correctly under some builds of Windows. - Improves the Reconstruct function, and several other features of GIF Construction Set that use it indirectly. - Updates the memory management logic, which should speed up much of what GIF Construction Set does to some extent. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using GIF Construction Set 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to GIF Construction Set Professional 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $12.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 7 for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The RAW plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional has been updated to support a number of new cameras, and to improve its image processing speed. The RAW Digital Camera Plugin currently supports 574 digital cameras. We recommend that users of the RAW plugin download and install the current release. ....................................................................... View and convert the native raw image files from many contemporary Canon, Casio, Hasselblad, Kodak, Konica, Nikon, Leica, Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sigma, Fuji and Sony high-end digital cameras, plus Adobe Digital Negative files, to access the highest possible image quality for your digital photography. The improved detail resolution and color fidelity available with the Graphic Workshop Professional RAW plugin compared to the default JPEG configuration for most cameras is breathtaking. This plugin costs $34.99. If you own a supported digital camera - or if you're just thinking about buying one - you and your immediate descendants will thank you for downloading this plugin. See the download link, below, for a complete list of the cameras the plugin supports. ....................................................................... You can download the plugin at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwsplugins.html#RAW ....................................................................... IMPORTANT: You must be running Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to install this plugin. If you're running Graphic Workshop 4, you can still upgrade to the current Graphic Workshop Professional 5 software for half price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. Registration keys bought for earlier versions of the RAW Digital Camera plugin are still valid for the version 5 release of the plugin. ....................................................................... (Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with Sony Corporation, Pentax Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Canon Inc., Hasselblad AB, Nikon Corporation or Olympus Corporation, Casio Computer Company, Sigma Corporation of America, Fuji Photo Film Company Ltd. or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries or holdings.) _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Steven William Rimmer's Novels on Kindle Unlimited in Canada (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Kindle Unlimited users in Canada can now access Steve's legendary cult fiction through Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited allows users to read e-books at no cost. Steve gets paid directly by Amazon when this happens. We too were shocked when this actually proved to work as advertised. There's more about Steven William Rimmer's fiction at: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com For more about Kindle Unlimited, please visit: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/index.html#lending and click on the link at the end of the section. _______________________________________________________________________ 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. ....................................................................... If you have questions about this list or any Alchemy Mindworks products, please contact us at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html You can contact us by telephone at (705) 789-5238, and by snail-mail at Alchemy Mindworks, L10 C8 Brunel, Huntsville, ON P1H 2J3, CANADA. **************************************************************************** Copyright (c) 1998 - 2015 Alchemy Mindworks. All rights reserved. Use no hooks.