[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Nov 22 08:22:00 EST 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 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, youre 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, youre 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, youre 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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