From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Mar 18 09:16:00 2017 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:16:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20170318091600.031c6f90@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Pagan Daybook 7 Revision 2 2. Announcing Voice Manager 7 (Second Notification) 2. Screen Saver Construction Set 7 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. 10 Perspicacious Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Additional Notification) 4. LizardLand Is Now In Print!!! (And now at Amazon Canada too...) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ THE EVIL EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html (Lots of spy cameras and handguns... sorry, no light sabers.) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Pagan Daybook 7 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ Pagan Daybook 7 has been updated. This release: - Adds dual-monitor support. Please see the discussions of dual monitor systems in the Reference document of Pagan Daybook's manual. - Updates the observance database. - Addresses a number of issues that crept into the first release of Pagan Daybook 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. - Improves the performance of the texture generator for theme backgrounds. - Addresses an issue with the background logic in the Calendar window. - Nails a potential security issue. - 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 Pagan Daybook 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pagan.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to Pagan Daybook 6, you can upgrade to Pagan Daybook 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing Voice Manager 7 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The Yamaha reface DX synthesizer is amazingly cool... among other things because its voices can be reprogrammed to make it sound like pretty much anything you can imagine. In the event that you're not feeling very imaginative, there's also a voice-sharing community from which to download buckets of fresh sounds for it. Alchemy Mindworks' Voice Manager will keep track of banks of synthesizer voices, allowing them to be saved as permanent disk files. It also embodies an intuitive voice editor, and numerous other tools to make this instrument totally rock. Voice Manager represents a bit of history for us - a similar application was one of the first software products Alchemy Mindworks created, back in the 1980s. (Please note that should you e-mail us and ask if they really had computers back then, we'll dispatch a leather- winged demon of the night to your digs before you've finished clicking on SEND.) If you play keyboards, we invite you to check out Voice Manager at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/voxman.html (Reface DX is a trademark of Yamaha Corporation. Alchemy Mindworks has no business affiliation with Yamaha Corporation. The names reface DX and Yamaha are used herein for descriptive purposes only.) _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Screen Saver Construction Set 7 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Create epic Windows screen savers! Screen Saver Construction Set 7 has been updated. This release: - Addresses a number of issues in the Print function. The Print selection window now correctly selects the current default printer. The print resolution works correctly for all combinations of frame and printer resolutions. A number of reproduction bugs have been stomped. - Updates the screen saver runtime. - Addresses a number of metrics issues in the resolution logic so your screen savers will appear correctly on systems having varying desktop dimensions. - Fixes a bug in the animation engine. - 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to Screen Saver Construction Set 6, you can upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 10 Perspicacious 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: - The Radial Blur filter - ectoplasm on demand. - The Adjust window - refine your photos interactively. - The Scrapbook - the Windows clipboard will never lose anything, ever again. - The Stand-alone Archive Manager - ZIP files will fear you. - Redact your subjects in seconds with the Face Detection filter. - Tired of this universe? Create one of your own with Fractals and Textures. - The Canvas filter - flawless Roman mosaics in ten clicks or less. - Batch resize - 65,000 megapixel photos down to screen size in 10 clicks or less. - Convert your photos into self-displaying Windows applications. - Create very, very, very, very, very small JPEGs with Supercompressor. 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. LizardLand Is Now In Print!!! (And now at Amazon Canada too...) _______________________________________________________________________ Steven William Rimmer's biting satire LizardLand is now available in paperback, through the thaumaturgy of Amazon's print-on-demand books. Should you not have encountered this technology previously, print-on- demand does pretty much what it says on the box. When you order a copy of LizardLand through Amazon, a digital press prints one book, just for you. Remarkably, the production quality of print-on-demand books is if anything better than that of commercial mass-market fiction. In addition, your book will have been manufactured a few days before you receive it, rather than having been stored for months in a warehouse in Duluth. The production costs of print-on-demand books being relatively low, we've been able to use really nice paper, large trade-size pages and big, readable type. Because these books are sold trough Amazon, you can enjoy free shipping with a Prime account, or if you buy enough other stuff to reach their free shipping threshold. Finally, print-on-demand means pretty much zero waste. Every copy of LizardLand that gets printed will actually be sold. By comparison, traditional publishing could see three quarters of the books that were manufactured ultimately being "remaindered" and destroyed. Please see: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html to enjoy LizardLand in print. Wise-assed dinosaurs and their profane lawyer await you. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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