From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jan 28 09:25:12 2017 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:25:12 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20170128092512.036c33d0@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 Revision 2 2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 7 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. 10 Incisive Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Additional Notification) 4. A Farewell to Spinning Rust 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Frequently outrages librarians and soccer moms on three continents: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/legacy.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 has been updated. This release: - Adds a new style - Empire is dark, sophisticated and while we could say "timeless," it'd be a contradiction in terms. It's available in two sizes. - Adds a recently-used items list to the right-click menu in the Select Style window, to quickly re-use your recent clock style selections. See the discussion of this feature in the section of the Reference document that deals with Styles. - Adds a Wait notification to the Select Styles window, so it doesn't appear to have gone into vapor lock when it's loading the by now somewhat extensive canon of clock styles. This issue was more pronounced if you tried to select a new Timer style, as this version of the Select Style window can take twenty or thirty seconds to open on a slow or busy computer. - Improves the clock rendering engine, 'coz that's just something that never really ends. - Addresses several minor issues in the Days Until window. - Addresses a number of issues that crept into the first release of The Ultimate Screen Clock 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 user interface issues. - 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 have previously registered or upgraded to The Ultimate Screen Clock 6, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 7 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set 7 has been updated. This release: - Adds an Adjust window - impose subtle or decidedly radical color adjustments on your animations with a palette of sophisticated, interactive image filters. Users of Graphic Workshop Professional will recognize this feature - it works pretty much the same way in PNG MNG Construction Set, but it applies to entire animations. - Fixes several minor cosmetic bugs in the Titles and Credits window. - Changes the color quantization logic, this being the mind-numbingly complex process by which optimum palettes are derived for paletted animations being assembled from true-color source images. This has resulted in a noticeable speed improvement in functions such as Animation Wizard and Combine. - Addresses a potential security issue. - 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 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to PNG MNG Construction Set 6, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 10 Incisive Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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: - Moonwalk on the sun with the Solarize filter. - Use the Adjust window to refine your photos interactively. - Scrapbook - Windows' clipboard will never lose anything, ever again. - The Stand-alone Archive Manager will make ZIP files fear you. - The Radial Blur filter - ectoplasm on demand. - View and edit the secret EXIF data in your photos. - Redact your subjects in seconds with the Face Detection filter. - Montage - assemble your pictures. - The Canvas filter - flawless Roman mosaics in ten clicks or less. - Explore infinity - browse a fractal. 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. A Farewell to Spinning Rust _______________________________________________________________________ This posting was composed on a computer without a hard drive. Several weeks ago, we replaced the traditional electro-mechanical hard drives in some of the computers at Alchemy Mindworks with SSDs - solid state drives. Aside from enhancing the reliability of the systems into which these devices are bolted - at least in theory - SSDs are way quicker than their spinning ancestors, and so too are the machines that host them. It's like buying a way faster computer, without most of the attendant credit card abuse. Here's the complete tale of our transition to rustless mass storage: www.stormgods.com/electronics/samsung-ssd-850-evo-solid-state-drive/ _______________________________________________________________________ 5. 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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