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        Contents:

 1. * Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 10
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 2. * GIF Construction Set 10 Revision 2 *(second notification)*
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 3. * Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 3***(additional
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    Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 10


We've enhanced functionality of The Ultimate Screen Clock, added some 
radical new clock styles, improved its performance and generally refined 
it to better get along with Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still 
performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to 
Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

Among the new features and enhancements to The Ultimate Screen Clock, 
you'll find that it:

  * Adds the *Stratosphere clock style*, available in two sizes and in
    light and dark manifestations — the dark version is shown here.
    Channeling the high-end watches of an earlier epoch that required an
    advanced degree in quantum physics to understand all their dials and
    functions, Stratosphere will make your desktop look like it drives a
    Lambo and knows intuitively how to choose really expensive wine.

    We hasten to add that the clock to your right is an animation, not
    actual software. There's a one in 3600 chance that it's actually
    displaying the correct time as you read this.

  * Adds the *Iridium clock style*, illustrated below. While it appears
    somewhat conventional in this posting, it's an animated style when
    it turns up in The Ultimate Screen Clock. Its digits morph, and it's
    somewhat hypnotic to observe.

    It comes in a substantial number of permutations of colors and
    sizes, with and without a bezel.

    Unlike the analog clocks included in this posting, Iridium doesn't
    lend itself to an animation, as its digits change more rapidly than
    can be managed by a GIF file. We also hasten to add that it requires
    somewhat more processor resources than most of the clock styles
    included with The Ultimate Screen Clock, and it may prove unsuitable
    for systems with slower processors, limited resources or a lot of
    other stuff happening.

    As someone will certainly inquire, Iridium refers to the chemical
    element having the atomic number 77, a silvery-white transition
    metal of the platinum group, not the eponymous satellite telephone
    network.

  * Adds the *Sextant clock style*, an example of which appears to your
    right. Reminiscent of the clocks of another epoch, when ships sailed
    at the pleasure of the winds and navigators guided them through dark
    incantations — assisted by the ability to perform complex
    trigonometry in their heads — the Sextant style would lend your
    desktop an air of timelessness, were that not something of a
    contradiction in terms for a clock.

    Sextant comes in two sizes.

    Once again, the Sextant clock shown here is an animation, rather
    than software, and as such is cosmically unlikely to be displaying
    the correct time. The Ultimate Screen Clock invariably will.

  * Adds a *Timeline window*, a browsable history of the past few
    hundred years. Right-click in The Ultimate Screen Clock and select
    Calendar → Timeline to experience it.

    We hasten to add that the contents of the Timeline window are
    editable, should you discover that you prefer your perception of
    history to ours. Timeline also lends itself to being re-purposed —
    you can replace its somewhat global history with your family's
    history, the history of your newly-restored classic Jag or the
    history of your sock collection.

  * Adds logic to the *screen saver background* manager to allow
    full-screen background graphics to be optionally resized rather than
    tiled, so they appear without seams on displays with unusual
    dimensions — laptops being the most likely suspects.

  * Updates the *clock rendering engine* to improve the appearance of
    several of the analog hand styles.

  * Updates the discussion of *Net Time* in the Reference document of
    The Ultimate Screen Clock's manual to include a permanent, elegant
    and largely bulletproof solution to the issue of Windows 10 blocking
    The Ultimate Screen Clock from setting the system time. See the Net
    Time section of the Reference Document, and the digression
    concerning Windows' security therein, for the complete epic.

  * Updates the primary *JPEG library* used by The Ultimate Screen Clock
    to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and
    image quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure... bugs. We'd
    like to take this opportunity to stress the importance of keeping
    whatever reads JPG files on your computer up to date — there are
    unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the wild that can
    crash older JPEG software and execute arbitrary, and potentially
    nasty, code on your computer.

  * Updates the *WebP* libraries to the latest software from Google.

  * Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce
    the likelihood of The Ultimate Screen Clock un-registering itself
    and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because
    Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
    the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that last year too,
    but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier than we'd anticipated.

  * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
    developers never really stop meddling with.

  * Updates the documentation.

As in years past, when you run The Ultimate Screen Clock10 for the first 
time, it will look for a previous installation of The Ultimate Screen 
Clock 9 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't 
have to set everything up by hand.


Click on the blue button to download The Ultimate Screen Clock 10.

Note that in addition to installing The Ultimate Screen Clock, you'll 
probably also want to install The Ultimate Screen Clock *Extra Styles 
library*, which will augment it with wealth of additional clock styles, 
including some of the ones mentioned herein. The Extra Styles library is 
also accessible through this big blue  button.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>



      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate 
Screen Clock 9 on or after June 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost 
upgrade* to The Ultimate Screen Clock10.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate 
Screen Clock9 prior to June 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to The 
Ultimate Screen Clock 10 for *half the current new-user price*.

The first time you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 10, it will determine 
which upgrade option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

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


You can access the no-cost upgrade page 
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html> directly by clicking on the 
foregoing link.



    GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 2


GIF Construction Set Professional 10 has been updated. This release:


  * Updates the *color selection windows* that appear in a number of GIF
    Construction Set's animation generators to include an editable
    hexadecimal color value field. This allows colors to be directly
    copied and pasted into web page HTML documents, and between
    applications that support this notation.

  * Addresses a number of issues from the initial release.

  * Fixes a bug in the*Favorites* window that prevented it from opening
    its galleries of favorite documents under some builds of Windows —
    which largely defeated the purpose of the Favorites window.

  * Nails a problem with the internal *default document path* for GIF
    Construction Set Professional, which confused a number of features
    which looked for things that weren't there.

  * Addresses a number of theoretical security issues in the *WebP
    animation* interface.

  * Improves the performance of the *Shadow* window.

  * Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce
    the likelihood of GIF Construction Set un-registering itself and
    thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because Windows
    10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails the
    problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that last year too, but
    Windows 10 proved to be sneakier than we'd anticipated.

  * Addresses a number of issues in the *Photo Stack* animation window.
    Should you have missed Photo Stack when it appeared a few weeks ago,
    an example can be seen to your right. Photo stacks will let you add
    your pictures, graphics, banners or other elements to your web page
    or social media as an animation that suggests a collection of paper
    photographs being dropped onto a table. If it were any cooler, it
    would be attracting polar bears... and you'd have bears in your
    house, which isn't wholly desirable.

  * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
    developers never really stop meddling with.

  * Updates the documentation.

Click on the blue button to download GIF Construction Set Professional 10.


    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>



      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction 
Set Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a 
*no-cost upgrade* to GIF Construction Set Professional 10.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction 
Set Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to 
GIF Construction Set Professional 10 for *half the current new-user price*.

The first time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 10, it will 
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

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


You can access the no-cost upgrade page 
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html> directly by clicking on the 
foregoing link.



    Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 3
    (second notification)


Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:

  * Redesigns the batch *Identify Mystery Files* window to allow its
    contents to be sorted by name, type, size and date. This makes it a
    lot easier to locate the files you'd like to identify. Should you
    have missed the batch Identify Mystery Files window thus far, hold
    down the Shift key on your keyboard and select Identify Mystery
    Files from the Graphic Workshop Professional 10 File menu.

  * Updates the *color selection windows* that appear in Graphic
    Workshop and all its ancillary applications to include an editable
    hexadecimal color value field. This allows colors to be directly
    copied and pasted into web page HTML documents, and between
    applications that support this notation.

  * Improves the performance of the *Identify Mystery Files* window when
    it's confronted with a WebP document... of which there appear to be
    more with each passing second.

  * Adds a *Windows File Explorer emulation* mode to Graphic Workshop's
    drag and drop functionality — it can be enabled in the Setup →
    Browser → Drop Options field. With Windows Emulation selected,
    dragging files between folders on the same drive will move them,
    dragging files between drives will copy them and holding down the
    Ctrl key when you drag and drop files will copy them no matter where
    they're going.

  * Updates *Archive Manager* so a Wait window appears when files are
    dropped into a ZIP archive. It also fine-tunes the user interface of
    its various File Open and File Save windows.

  * Further improves the new *validation logic *to reduce the likelihood
    of Graphic Workshop unregistering itself due to silent Windows
    upgrades. We hasten to add that since the release of Graphic
    Workshop Professional 10, this has occurred precisely zero times.

  * Fixes a bug in the *Ultralight Screen Clock* that could cause some
    of the animated styles to display a white rectangle in place of the
    leading digit for one second at the top of each hour under some
    builds and configurations of Windows.

  * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
    developers never really stop meddling with.

  * Updates the documentation.


If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional 10 yet, you might 
want to review a more extensive list of its new functionality and 
enhancements <http://doc.mindworkshop.com/918.html>.

Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 10.


    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>


      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost 
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 10.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to 
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for *half the current new-user price*.

The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10, it will 
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

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


You can access the no-cost upgrade page 
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on the 
foregoing link.


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