[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Fri May 2 19:05:37 EDT 2014
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM
THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST
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Contents:
1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 Patch 20
2. Announcing Loops #1 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set and
PNG MNG Construction Set (Second Notification)
3. VERY IMPORTANT: Site News
4. 10 Sublime Tweets About Graphic Workshop (Second Notification)
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 Patch 20
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This release of The Ultimate Screen Clock 4:
- Adds several intense new animated digital clock styles - be sure to
experience Quark, Quark Outline and Vapor Lock. These styles are
available in two sizes the Large size may not be suitable for
systems with slower processors or restricted resources.
Note that the Quark styles may cause you to become unstuck in the
matrix of space-time and coalesce in an altered reality if you look
at them for extended periods. Just thought you'd want to know that.
- Fine-tunes the metrics for a number of clock styles.
- Addresses several issues in the World Time at a Glance window.
Middle-click in the Ultimate Screen Clock's application window to
experience this feature, should it have hitherto eluded your notice.
- Improves the performance of the clock rendering engine.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues.
- Addresses some Windows 7 and Windows 8 issues.
The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 is available for download at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html
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If you'd like to see a gallery of the current clock styles that ship
with The Ultimate Screen Clock 4, please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/clockstyles.html
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As of this writing, if you're still using The Ultimate Screen Clock 2,
you can upgrade to the new version 4 software for half price. Please see
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
to upgrade.
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2. Announcing the Loops #1 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set
Professional 4 and PNG MNG Construction Set 4 (Second Notification)
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Include digital video clips at your web page, in your PowerPoint
presentations, with your e-mail messages and in Presentation Wizard
documents without the unprofessional jumps and hiccups that appear
every time they loop.
The Loops #1 plugin will apply your choice of twenty professional
special-effect loop transitions to your digital video animations so
they repeat smoothly.
If it were any cooler, it would violate at least a dozen laws of
physics and make every polar bear north of the arctic circle really
grouchy.
We hasten to add that the Loops #1 plugin can be applied to animations
that didn't originate in a video camera as well.
The Loops #1 plugins effects include Airlock, Blinds, Blocks,
Collapse, Credits, diamonds, Dissolve, Expand, Fade, Fuse, Radar,
Sandstorm, Slide, Tiles and Vortex.
The Loops #1 Plugin costs $19.99.
Please see:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-lp1.html
to download an evaluation copy.
Be sure to click on the Demonstration Window link when you get there
to see a few of its effects.
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3. VERY IMPORTANT: Site News
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If you haven't been receiving the postings to the Alchemy Mindworks
update mailing list every weekend of late, your e-mail is probably
being blocked.
Chances are that you're missing more than just the latest news about
Graphic Workshop - it's hard to know when you're not getting mail.
We've become aware that there's a new and unusually aggressive
blacklist turning up on a number of large commercial mail servers, and
it appears to be pretty indiscriminate about what it blocks. Thus far,
we've had questionable success at being removed from it.
We've undertaken some considerable stealth and treachery to allow this
week's posting to sneak around it.
If you suspect your mail is being blocked, consider contacting your
ISP or mail provider and request that you be allowed to opt out of
their anti-spam solution.
Should you discover that you've been beset by this issue, we recommend
that you check out our blog-posting on the subject:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/alchemy-mindworks/about-your-e-mail/
Please refrain from throwing stuff.
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- Reviewing the archive of previous postings. Admittedly, the archive
doesn't go back very far as of this writing. If you've missed the
last few weeks worth of postings, however, they're still available.
You can access the mailing list's page from our web site - click on
Support, and then on the E-mail Update List link. You can go directly
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decorating in the near future so it looks like the rest of our web
site. Don't be alarmed by the weird furniture or the painting of
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4. 10 Sublime Tweets about Graphic Workshop. (Second Notification)
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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'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:
- Create page backgrounds, photo mats and alternate universes with
Textures and Fractals.
- Uncover duplicates of your photos no matter where they lurk on your
hard drive with Find Similar.
- Refine the contrast of your photos intuitively with the Sigmoidal
Contrast filter.
- Adjust the JPEG subsampling setting for flawless color in the JPG
files you create.
- Secure delete - when it's time to make your photos gone, make sure
they stay gone.
- Add captions to your photos with the Caption function.
- Build distributable montages of your photos with Montage Builder.
- Turn your photos into instant clickable web pages with Web Gallery.
- Embrace the 19th century with the Sepia filter.
- Refine your photos with a few clicks - power up Photography Workshop.
You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 3, 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
Please see http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on
Twitter.
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