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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Contents:</font></h3>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> Alpha
Paint 10 Revision 2</b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> Announcing
Calendar Wizard 10</b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2"> </font></font></font></b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2">(second notification)</font></font></font><b>
</b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> Announcing
The Ultimate Screen Clock 10</b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2"> </font></font></b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2">(additional notification)</font></font><b>
</b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><font
size="-2"> </font>Graphic Workshop Professional
10 Revision 3</b></font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2">(additional notification)</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Replying to
this Message, List Removal and Details<br>
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<td valign="bottom"><font size="+1" face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#333333">It's
pretty much a medieval Boxing Week sale on <br>
daggers, poison, treachery and deceit.<br>
<font size="-2"> </font><br>
...so, not unlike right now.</font></b></font><font
size="+1" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><font
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<td valign="top"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b><font color="#333333">Click on
the book.</font></b></font></td>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Alpha Paint 10 Revision 2<br>
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<h2> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part6.AF03D067.4B1EE115@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right"></font></h2>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Alpha Paint 10
has been updated. This release:<br>
<br>
</font><br>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part7.088638BA.FD1E8C44@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
width="250" vspace="5" hspace="20"
height="188" align="right"></font>Updates the
<b>color selection windows</b> that appear in
Alpha Paint 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.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves a
number of user-interface elements in the tool box,
and deals with several control fields which could
accept out-of-range values, causing the software
to misbehave in some situations.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.BDEF6714.42D50582@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="10"
height="111" align="right">Updates the primary <b>PNG
library</b> used by </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Alpha Paint</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> to the latest
release. This addresses several potential security
and image quality issues. 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.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses a
number of issues from the initial release.</font></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation
logic</b> to reduce the likelihood of Alpha
Paint 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.</font></font></font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button to download Alpha Paint Professional 10. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint
9, we invite you to <b>upgrade to Alpha Paint 10</b>
for half the single-user license price.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page. <br>
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href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Announcing Calendar Wizard 10<br>
<font size="-2">(second notification)</font></font></h2>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-1"> </font></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We've
enhanced functionality of Calendar Wizard, added some
radical new clock styles</font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">, 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.)</font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the
new features and enhancements to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar Wizard</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">, you'll find
that it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
moz-do-not-send="true"
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/932-001.gif"
alt="" width="216" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="275" align="right"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a
palette of<b> frame styles</b> to the Month
editor tabs</font></font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">. In addition to traditional square
frames, Calendar Wizard can now create gradient
frames and cornered frames, as are illustrated
to your right. <br>
<br>
This represents a mere fraction of the calendar
styles you can create with the new frame styles.<br>
<br>
To access the new frames, open a Month edit
window and click on the Heading tab.<br>
<br>
The Heading tab in Calendar Wizard 10 also
includes a Line Size field, to allow you to
specify the line weight from frames.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates the
user interface of the <b>Year and Month editors</b>.
In previous editions of Calendar Wizard, it was
possible to enter out-of-range values in the
numeric fields of the editors under some builds
of Windows... which could result in some pretty
weird calendars.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part14.8210ACF0.B7797B13@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="false" class=""
width="200" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="259" align="right">Updates the <b>Print
Dodecahedral</b> calendar logic, that will
render your calendars as twelve-sized desk toys
that can be printed, cut out and folded into
three-dimensional objects.<br>
<br>
There were a few printer inconsistencies in the
previous edition that turned up on some output
devices.<br>
<br>
Should the dodecahedral calendar option have
thus far eluded notice, there's an example shown
here prior to the application of scissors and
tape. It takes about five minutes to cut one out
and assemble it... and then most of the
following year to stop playing with it.<br>
<br>
We hasten to add that you can choose the design
elements in </font></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">dodecahedral
calendars </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">— this includes adding
pictures or textures to their
faces, in place of the solid color
illustrated in this posting.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
</font></font><br>
</li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.BDEF6714.42D50582@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5"
hspace="10" height="111" align="right">Updates
the <b>JPEG library</b> used by </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar
Wizard</font></font></font> 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.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>WebP</b> libraries to the latest software
from Google.<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation
logic</b> to reduce the likelihood of </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar
Wizard</font> 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.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling
with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As in years
past, when you run </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Calendar Wizard</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 10 for the
first time, it will look for a previous installation
of </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar
Wizard</font> 9 and optionally <b>copy your
existing configuration</b>, so you won't have to
set everything up by hand. <br>
</font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click
on the blue button to download </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar Wizard</font>
10. <br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Note that in
addition to installing Calendar Wizard, you'll
probably also want to install Calendar Wizard <b>Extra
Styles library</b>, 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.<br>
<br>
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href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/calwiz.html"
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src="cid:part9.0FEEF217.70099E64@mindworkshop.com"
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width="239" height="46" border="0"></a></font></p>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar
Wizard</font> 9 on or after June 1, 2019, you're
welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar Wizard</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 10. <br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar Wizard</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 9 prior to June
1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Calendar
Wizard</font> 10 for <b>half the current new-user
price</b>.<br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Calendar Wizard</font> 10, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your
license.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page. <br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font>
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href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part11.80C8BC2C.D23E9F94@mindworkshop.com"
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border="0"></a></font></p>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You
can access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">no-cost upgrade page</a>
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock
10<br>
<font size="-2">(additional notification)</font><br>
</font></h2>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#ffffff">
<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-1"> </font></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We've
enhanced functionality of The Ultimate Screen Clock,
added some radical new clock styles</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">, improved its
performance a</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">n</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">d genera</font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">l</font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">l</font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">y refined it to better get along
with Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">performs admirably
under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to
Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the new
features and enhancements to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">, you'll find that it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
moz-do-not-send="true"
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/931-001.gif"
alt="" width="184" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="183" align="right"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Adds the <b>Stratosphere clock
style</b>, available in two sizes and in light
and dark manifestations </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—</font> 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.<br>
<br>
We hasten to add that the clock to your right is
an animation, not actual software. There's a one
in 36</font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">00 chance that it's actually
displaying the correct time as you read this.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds the <b>
Iridium clock style</b>, 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, </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part22.79B4E16B.8D5B6BFF@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="false" class=""
width="200" vspace="10" hspace="10" height="188"
align="right"></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">an</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">d it's
somewhat hypnotic to observe.<br>
<br>
It comes in a substantial number of permutations
of colors and sizes, with and without a bezel.</font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Unlike the
analog clocks included in this posting, Iridium do</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">esn'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.<br>
</font></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
moz-do-not-send="true"
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/931-002.gif"
alt="" width="185" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="185" align="right">Adds the <b>Sextant
clock style</b>, 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 </font></font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">— <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">assisted by </font></font></font></font>the
ability to perform complex trigonometry in their
heads </font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">— the Sextant style would lend
your desktop an air of timelessness, were
that not something of a contradiction in
terms for a clock.<br>
<br>
Sextant comes in two sizes.<br>
<br>
Once again, the Sextant clock shown here is
an animation, rather than software</font></font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">, and as such
is cosmically unlikely to be displaying the
correct time. The Ultimate Screen Clock invariably
will.<br>
<br>
</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a <b>
Timeline window</b>, a browsable history of the
past few hundred years. Right-click in The
Ultimate Screen Clock and select Calendar →
Timeline to experience it.<br>
<br>
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 </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">—
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.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds logic
to the <b>screen saver background</b> 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.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>clock rendering engine</b> to improve the
appearance of several of the analog hand styles.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the discussion of <b>Net Time</b> 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.</font><br>
<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.BDEF6714.42D50582@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="10"
height="111" align="right">Updates the <b>JPEG
library</b> used by </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">The Ultimate Screen Clock</font></font></font>
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.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>WebP</b> libraries to the latest software
from Google.<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to reduce the likelihood of </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font> 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.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As in years
past, when you run </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate Screen Clock</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 10 for the first
time, it will look for a previous installation of </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font> 9 and optionally <b>copy your
existing configuration</b>, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand. <br>
</font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click
on the blue button to download </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font> 10. <br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Note that in
addition to installing The Ultimate Screen Clock,
you'll probably also want to install The Ultimate
Screen Clock <b>Extra Styles library</b>, 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.<br>
<br>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font> 9 on or after June 1, 2019,
you're welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> 10. <br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Ultimate
Screen Clock</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> 9 prior to June 1, 2019, we invite you to
upgrade to </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The
Ultimate Screen Clock</font> 10 for <b>half the
current new-user price</b>.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The
Ultimate Screen Clock</font> 10, it will determine
which upgrade option applies to your license.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Redesigns
the batch <b>Identify Mystery Files</b> 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.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
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alt="" moz-do-not-send="false" class=""
width="266" vspace="5" hspace="20" height="200"
align="right">Updates the <b>color selection
windows</b> 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.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the performance of the <b>Identify Mystery Files</b>
window when it's confronted with a WebP document...
of which there appear to be more with each passing
second.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a <b>Windows
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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.</font><br>
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Manager</b> so a Wait window appears when files
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the user interface of its various File Open and File
Save windows.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
improves the new <b>validation logic </b>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.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
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src="cid:part32.09466208.BE4E5A99@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="271" vspace="10"
hspace="10" height="80" align="right"></font>Fixes
a bug in the <b>Ultralight Screen Clock</b> 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.</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.</font><font
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional
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of its <a href="http://doc.mindworkshop.com/918.html"
moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">new
functionality and enhancements</a>.<br>
<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click
on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop
Professional 10.</font>
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