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Contents:
1. * Alpha Paint 10 Revision 4*
2. * e-Paint 10 Revision 4 *(second notification)**
3. * Screen Saver Construction Set 10 Revision 2 *(additional notification)
4. * Graphic Workshop Professional - Ten Cool Features *(additional
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Alpha Paint 10 Revision 4
Alpha Paint10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are:
* *Application Security:*In our continuing determination to ensure
that Alpha Paint presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find
any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
* *Graphic Libraries:* The libraries that open and save graphic files
for Alpha Paint have been reviewed, line by line, until several
programmers begged for a few days of differential calculus instead.
They're now substantially more secure, and as such more resistant to
malformed graphic files that have been crafted to install malware on
your computer. They're also quicker and have smaller memory footprints.
We urge all users of Alpha Paint to update to the current release
and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
* *Tool Box: *Addresses a cosmetic bug in the tool box window, under
some configurations of Windows.
* *Help: *Fixes a number of misdirected links in the Help buttons
around the application.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download Alpha Paint10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 9, we
invite you to *upgrade to **Alpha Paint 10* for half the single-user
license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
e-Paint 10 Revision 4 (second notification)
e-Paint 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced features are:
* *Application Security:*In our continuing determination to ensure
that e-Paint presents no opportunities for cybercretins to exploit,
we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find any
potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
* *Graphic Libraries:* The libraries that open and save graphic files
for e-Paint have been reviewed, line by line, until several
programmers begged for a few days of differential calculus instead.
They're now substantially more secure, and as such more resistant to
malformed graphic files that have been crafted to install malware on
your computer. They're also quicker and have smaller memory footprints.
We urge all users of e-Paint to update to the current release and
nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
* *Tool Box: *Addresses a cosmetic bug in the tool box window, under
some configurations of Windows.
* *Help: *Fixes a number of misdirected links in the Help buttons
around the application.
* *CGI Textures:* Adds Scratch textures to the CGI fill option window.
Wild, unleashed and as chaotic as you want to be, Scratch suggests
bad urban art applied with cheap spray paint, a dystopian landscape
viewed from space by an aging reconnaissance satellite or a really
badly-behaved cat.
Also adds the Threads texture, a wildly ebullient procedural fractal
that simulates complex surfaces as sequences of random twisted
lines. You really need to see this puppy at work to truly appreciate
how alternate-universe it can get.
The example animation shown here, comprised of several example
Scratch and Threads textures, represents but a fraction of their
capabilities.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download e-Paint 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 9, we
invite you to *upgrade to **e-Paint 10* for half the single-user license
price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
Screen Saver Construction Set 10 Revision 2
(additional notification)
Screen Saver Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and
enhanced features are:
* *Animated PNG:* Screen Saver Construction Set now supports animated
PNG in its animation import functionality, an example of which
appears to your right. Enjoy the state of the art in animation...
and let GIF become a distant memory possibly resulting from eating
the wrong kind of mushrooms.
* *Animation Engine:* Screen Saver Construction Set's animation engine
has been refined, improved and accelerated past the speed of light.
It's tighter, more accurate and bereft of a few bugs that crept into
earlier releases.
* *JPEG Security:* Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Screen
Saver Construction Setto the latest release. This addresses a
potential security issue. We urge all the users of our software to
keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there
are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this,
doing everything they can to ruin your day.
* *PNG Security:* Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Screen
Saver Construction Set to the latest release. This addresses several
potential security and image quality issues.
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic and themes used by Screen Saver Construction Set. Left to its
own devices, this one could crash these applications and potentially
compromise your Windows security.
In addition, in our continuing determination to ensure that Screen
Saver Construction Set presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find
any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
We urge all users of Screen Saver Construction Set to update to the
current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
* *Legacy Windows:* Support for Windows screen drivers with eight or
fewer bits of color has been removed from Screen Saver Construction
Set and its document run-time. This has made the run-time somewhat
smaller and substantially faster when it's asked to display still or
animated graphics. Eight-bit Windows screen drivers haven't been a
thing since the turn of the century — they won't be missed.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download Screen Saver Construction Set 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver
Construction Set 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **Screen Saver
Construction Set 10* for half the single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain
by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated_PNG_example_bouncing_beach_ball.png>.
Graphic Workshop Professional - 10 Cool Features
(second notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 is rich with functionality... some of
which you might not know it has. Here are ten leading-edge features you
can access in Graphic Workshop.
* *Supercompresor: *The JPEG supercompressor will let you
interactively refine your JPG graphics to make them as small as you
need them to be, with the best possible image quality. Master the
nuances of JPEG without having to read up on quality factors,
sub-sampling or color models.
* *Print Poster: *Sometimes 8½ by 11 inches really doesn't cut it.
Fire up the Print Poster window in Graphic Workshop to have your
pictures printed over multiple pages that can be cut and assembled
into posters of any size you require. Let your best work be seen
from space.
* *Photo Fine-Tune:* The Photo Fine-Tune filter in the the View mode
Filter window will refine your photographs with a few mouse clicks.
It combines color adjustment, contrast and brightness and tone
mapping... all in a simple, intuitive environment that won't require
that you understand a word of the sentence you just read.
* *EXIF:* Your graphic documents can contain EXIF metadata that
defines the camera settings you used when you took your pictures;
the GPS location of your camera; hidden content about the camera and
attachments involved and much more. Graphic Workshop's EXIF editor
will let you adjust these fields as you see fit. Its EXIF security
window will optionally delete your EXIF data entirely, so the
pictures you post to social media don't tell the world's subspecies
precisely where to go to steal your stuff.
* *Watermark:* Add professional text or graphic watermarks to your
pictures to permanently identify them as your work. Share your
photographs, not your royalties.
* *GWS Camera Screen Capture:* Capture all or part of your Windows
desktop to graphic files with your choice of options. Graphic
Workshop's screen capture can automatically locate the topmost
window on your desktop and save it without requiring that you
manually select it. It will store sequentially-numbered captures
without interaction. It can even include your current cursor.
* *Photography Workshop:* Adjust your photographs using a gallery of
pre-configured imaging filters for effects that range from subtle
and sophisticated to heart-stoppingly extraterrestrial. Open any
picture in the Photography Workshop window and just click on the
variation you like.
* *Identify Mystery Graphics:* If you've ever downloaded a picture
from the Internet and discovered that it won't open in any of your
installed software, you'll find Graphic Workshop's ability to
determine what's in your mysterious files to be just this side of
spooky. Double-click on a problem graphic from within Graphic
Workshop... or use its dedicated Identify Mystery Files menu
option... to have it determine the correct file type in question and
rename your file correctly.
* *The UltraLight Screen Clock:* A simplified version of our popular
Ultimate Screen Clock application, the screen clock that installs
with Graphic Workshop will display your choice of digital and analog
desktop clocks. Sufficiently cool to shatter penguins, you can have
the clock configured to your liking in substantially less time than
you've taken to read this paragraph.
* *Icon Editor:* Create and modify Windows icons with an
easily-mastered palette of tools and functionality. Customize your
desktop and build unforgettable favicons for your web pages. If this
application was any easier to use it would work by thought
control... and our lawyers would scream loudly enough to be heard in
Patagonia.
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, we invite you to *upgrade to **Graphic Workshop
Professional 10* for half the single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
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