From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Nov 12 08:33:00 2016 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 08:33:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20161112083300.0011e678@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing The Calendar Wizard 7 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 7 Revision 2 3. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 (Second Notification) 4. 10 Epic Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Gaze into the face of Death!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html (Did you notice that it needs a shave? What about the nose piercing?) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing The Calendar Wizard 7 _______________________________________________________________________ Calendar Wizard 7 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Calendar Wizard to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10. While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Calendar Wizard 7 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as managing large graphics in your calendars. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Calendar Wizard that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 6. - Addresses several metrics issues in the calendar print logic. - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this key is already registered" message should be a distant memory. - Updates lots of user-interface issues throughout the application. - Calendar Wizard 7 uses an altered installation structure that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history. - Updates UpToDate. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Calendar Wizard 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 6 on or after April 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Calendar Wizard 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Calendar Wizard 6 prior to April 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Calendar Wizard 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Calendar Wizard 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for Calendar Wizard 6 on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Calendar Wizard 7's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/calkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 7 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 7 has been updated. This release: - Addresses a number of issues that crept into the first release of GIF Construction Set Professional 7... as software is wont to do. - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this key is already registered" message should be a distant memory. - Updates UpToDate. - 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 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 6 on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of GIF Construction Set Professional 7's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html ........................................................................ PLUGINS All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 7. If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 7 installers for your plugins. All the animation plugins are at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 6 or PNG MNG Construction Set 6 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 6 or PNG MNG Construction Set 6 to replace them with the new version 7 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 6 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 6 and PNG MNG Construction Set 6. If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system, you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows Control Panel's Programs and Features applet. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of The Ultimate Screen Clock to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10. While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as running complex animated clocks. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to The Ultimate Screen Clock that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 6. - Adds the Neural Network style. A logic-rendered seven-segment digital style like Ion Drive, this one uses lots and lots and lots of blinking LEDs to simulate the endless flow of global data. Alternately, it can look kind of festive, depending upon your mood. Comes in three sizes and lots of colors. Note that most of the Neural Network clocks reside in the extra clock installer, as they're somewhat huge. - Fixes some metrics issues in the Ion Drive style. - Addresses a number of issues in the Days Until and Days between windows. - Improves the speed and efficiency of the clock rendering engine. - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this key is already registered" message should be a distant memory. - Updates lots of user-interface issues throughout the application. - The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 uses an altered installation structure that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history. - Updates UpToDate. - 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 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 on or after April 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 prior to April 1, 2016, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run The Ultimate Screen Clock 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the right click > Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of The Ultimate Screen Clock. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 10 Epic Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 7'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 the smallest possible JPEGS with the MOZ plugin. - Access hidden data in your photos with the EXIF editor. - Put absolutely anything in a blender - enable the Swirl filter. - Create and edit photo comments in your JPEGs with the right-click Comments window. - Boot up e-paint UltraLight - quick photo retouching. - Manage graphics within ZIP archives with the Archive Manager. - Power up the Prepress filter - look outside the box. - Tired of the world? Create your own with Fractals and Textures. - View, modify and delete hidden EXIF data in your photos. - Keep track of your best photos with the Favorites window. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ If you're still using Graphic Workshop 6, 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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