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     Contents:

      1. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 4

      2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 Revision 2 (Second Notification)  

      3. A Farewell to Spinning Rust (Second Notification)  

      4. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     1. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 4
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds a Paint function to the View mode window - edit your pictures
       directly from View, without saving them to disk. Select Paint from 
       the Picture menu, or hold down the Shift key and click on the 
       paintbrush button.


     - Improves the Adjust window, adds a Reset button and fixes a few... 
       ahem... "bugs" has such a negative connotation. Perhaps they're just
       "alternate program features."
       

     - Changes the color quantization logic, this being the mind-numbingly
       complex process by which optimum palettes are derived for reducing
       true-color graphics to paletted images... this being GIF files, for 
       the most part. This has resulted in a noticeable speed improvement
       in some of the Effects features.


     - Speeds up a number of features of the View window.


     - Updates several View mode filters.


     - Updates several of the drawing tools in e-Paint UltraLight.

     
     - Addresses several minor issues in GWS Camera.


     - 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.



     We'd like to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop Professional 7 to
     download and install this update... doubly so if you're running 
     Windows 10.


     You can Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     As of this writing, if you're running Graphic Workshop 5 or 6, you can 
     upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7 for half the cost of a new 
     single-user license.

     Please visit: 

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     

     to upgrade.




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     2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 Revision 2 (Second Notification)  
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     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


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     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.



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     3. A Farewell to Spinning Rust (Second Notification)  
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     This posting was composed on a computer without a hard drive. 

     Several weeks ago, we replaced the traditional electro-mechanical hard 
     drives in most 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/



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