From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Mar 7 09:34:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 09:34:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20150307154350.56EC394089E@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 5 2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 5 (Second Notification) 3. 10 Meritorious Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ The dead of winter don't always stay that way. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 5 _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds an Alarm Clock feature. Have The Ultimate Screen Clock wake you up, notify you of important events or provide you with an excuse to beg off another evening of watching your brother-in-law practice Olympic free-style ferret juggling. The Alarm Clock is quick to enable, flexible in its choice of noises and effects and impossible to ignore. Select Alarm Clock from the right-click menu. - Fixes a number of issues in the World Time window - most of them having to do with the vagaries of daylight saving time - which saw it miscalculating the correct time at various places around the world. And yes, if you reside in North America, this is the weekend the clocks go forward and you can count on missing most of your favorite shows. - Adds an option to select which of the screen saver modes the Random mode option will select among. Click on Enable next to the Screen Saver Mode combo in Setup. - Addresses a number of user-interface elements in the various windows opened by The Ultimate Screen Clock, and updates its iconography. - Tidies up the right-click menu. - Fixes a few minor clock-metric problems. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - 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. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set Chunk menu. - Rewrites the primary MNG reader to make it quicker, and to clean up the status bar so it no longer appears to be chasing a drunken ferret when PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set that use it indirectly. - Updates the memory management logic, which should speed up much of what PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $12.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 10 Meritorious Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ We suspect that we'll eventually run out of adjectives to describe tweets... but not this time. If you're among the tens of thousands of Graphic Workshop users who don't follow us on Twitter - we're in no way offended by this - you'll likely have missed the ongoing tweets that deal with often-overlooked features of the known universe's most popular image management software. Graphic Workshop Professional 5's ability to do practically everything that can be done to pictures makes it relatively easy to use it every day for years and still miss a few of its better tricks. Here are ten more of the finest features you never knew it had, fresh from the Alchemy Mindworks Twitter account: - Create state-of-the-art Roman mosaics with Canvas filter. - Convert pictures from every weird-beard, old, obscure or unknown format into JPEGs. - Retouch your photos with e-Paint Ultralight. - Capture any portion of your screen with GWS Camera's interactive mode. - Eliminate duplicate photos with Find Similar. - Frame your photos extremely with Matt & Frame. - Elevate your photos above the noise with the Raise filter. - Privacy rules - use the Face Detection filter. - Your digital camera can do better - try the Raw plugin. - Lie convincingly... adjust the time stamps of your pictures. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download If you're still using Graphic Workshop 4, we invite you to enjoy all the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool things to click on - for half the new-user registration price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/upgrade.html See http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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