[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat Nov 22 08:22:00 EST 2014




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     Contents:

     1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 3 

     2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 

     3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification) 

     4. Surprised to Hear From Us? (Second Notification) 

     5. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 3 
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     The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds a new clock style - taste the salt, smell the sea and try not to
       get cracked across the head by a jib while you enable the Mariner 
       style. 

       Mariner is a mostly digital custom clock style. If you right-click on 
       its entry in the Select Style window of The Ultimate Screen Clock, 
       you'll be able to choose its size and its color palette. 

       We could probably indulge in a few more nautical references here, but
       we're too classy for that.


     - Adds an optional delay in the Net Time window at such time as it 
       appears to set your system clock when your computer boots up, to allow 
       for Internet connections that take a while to wake up. See the Net 
       Time Delay field in Setup.


     - Fixes a really, really nasty bug in the custom clock styles that 
       caused them to leak memory in some situations, eventually crashing The
       Ultimate Screen Clock and, not infrequently, Windows and all who sailed
       in her. That might have been one of the aforementioned nautical 
       references we were too classy to indulge in...


     - Fixes a bug that prevented The Ultimate Screen Clock from appearing 
       in the system tray or notification area under some configurations of
       Windows.


     - Improves a number of aspects of the clock rendering engine.


     - Updates the Copy Time and Date function.


     - Improves a number of user-interface, GDI and performance issues...
       these being the things software developers just can't stop refining.


     - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to 
       version 5.


     - Updates the documentation.
 


     Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
  
         http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/

     You can download The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to 
     The Ultimate Screen Clock 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run The Ultimate Screen Clock 5, it will check to 
     see if you have a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 
     on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you 
     which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the 
     Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Upgrade
     Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version item of the right-click menu 
     of The Ultimate Screen Clock.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

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



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     2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 
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     Presentation Wizard 5 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds Right-click Menu objects to Presentation Wizard documents. 
       Create right-click menus that users of your documents can interact
       with.

       See page three of the example presentation that installs with 
       Presentation Wizard for an example of the right-click menu object in
       action. You'll want to right click therein for the best results.

       
     - Speeds up the alpha rendering engine.

     
     - Fixes a troublesome resource leak.

       IMPORTANT: If you're still using  Presentation Wizard 4, we urge you 
       to consider upgrading to Presentation Wizard 5. Doing so will resolve 
       the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from sending 
       Presentation Wizard... and possibly Windows itself... into a dark
       nether-world from which none ever return. You have to hate it when
       that happens.


     - Speeds up the File menu history.


     - Improves the animation timing.


     - Fixes several memory leaks in the document runtime.


     - Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application.


     - Updates the documentation.

 
     - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to
       version 5.

     

     You can download Presentation Wizard 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4 
     on or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation 
     Workshop 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4 
     prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 5 for 
     half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Presentation Wizard 5, it will check to see if you 
     have a registration for Presentation Wizard 4 on your system. If it 
     finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of the foregoing 
     upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our 
     web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Presentation 
     Wizard 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/prskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

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



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     3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification)  
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release:

     ...was something of an experiment. Graphic Workshop has been 
     extensively optimized to maximize its performance under Windows 7 and
     Windows 8. The result of all this refinement, stealth and treachery
     has been a measurable performance improvement across the entire 
     application. It's quicker and has a smaller memory footprint.

     We've been impressed with how well this has worked - it's cool on any
     platform, but especially when it's running on older, slower systems. 

     While Graphic Workshop still runs under Windows XP and Vista, should 
     you be feeling retro, its current persona may suffer a slight 
     performance hit if it's confronted by antique builds of Windows. 
     Time marches on.


     In addition:


     - Graphic Workshop's View window now defaults to showing oversized 
       pictures centered, rather than starting in their upper left corners.
       You can disable this by unselecting Center Oversize Images In View 
       in the Setup window if you prove not to like it.


     - Updates the e-Paint UltraLight rendering engine and fixes a really 
       nasty resource leak.


     - Fixes a number of cosmetic issues in GIF Construction Set UltraLight.
          

     - Fixes a number of cosmetic and performance issues in Montage Builder 
       UltraLight.


     - Fixes a bug in GWS Camera which could cause it to grab the wrong 
       screen area in some... admittedly unlikely... circumstances.


     - Updates Resource Extractor to allow it to deal with even more weird-
       beard resource types that turn up under Windows 8.


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


     - Updates the documentation.


     Please visit:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download

     to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5.


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     UPGRADES

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Graphic 
     Workshop Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 5, it will check to see 
     if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 on your 
     system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of 
     the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button
     to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

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



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     4. Surprised to Hear From Us? (Second Notification) 
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     If this is the first posting to the Alchemy Mindworks Update List 
     you've seen of late, you're not alone.

     It has come to our attention that several large commercial e-mail 
     providers have installed black hole spam blockers of late... that block 
     way more than just spam.

     There's a complete discussion of this issue at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.info/alchemy-mindworks/about-your-e-mail/

     You're receiving this posting because we've sent it through a different
     IP address. This said, the fundamentally broken design behind many
     black hole spam traps means that they'll likely block this address as
     well, in time.

     If our mail to you is being blocked, chances are other messages you'd
     like to receive are too. It's hard to know when you're not receiving 
     your e-mail.

     We urge all our readers to contact the providers of their e-mail
     solutions, determine whether their mail is being subject to one of 
     these brute force spam traps and request to opt out.
  


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