[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Aug 1 08:41:00 EDT 2015
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Contents:
1. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 6
2. Announcing e-Paint 6 (Second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
4. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 6
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The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of The Ultimate Screen Clock to
make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage
of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in The Ultimate
Screen Clock 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will
notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call
for significant system resources, such as managing analog clocks.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to The
Ultimate Screen Clock that were impractical or genuinely impossible
under version 5.
- The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10.
- Adds new clock styles. Check out London, which looks highly
distressed and generally retro, and Blue Buttons, which does pretty
much what it says on the box.
- Adds new directives to the clock definition language to allow for
a small calendar dial - one such dial appears in the new London
style.
- Fine-tunes a number of issues in the clock rendering engine.
- Implements our improved memory management to allow The Ultimate
Screen Clock to operate with a smaller memory and resource footprint.
- Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from
installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of
Windows.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can download The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 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 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to
The Ultimate Screen Clock 6.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen
Clock prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen
Clock 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run The Ultimate Screen Clock 6, it will check to see if
you have a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 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 Ultimate Screen
Clock 6's right-click menu.
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. Announcing e-Paint 6 (Second Notification)
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e-Paint 6 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of e-Paint to make it faster,
more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the
functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in e-Paint 6 are
"under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's
noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant
system resources, such as filtering images.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
e-Paint that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 5.
- e-Paint 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10.
- Improves the application's memory management, which will speed up
a number of resource-hungry functions, such as the image filters.
- Addresses a number of minor issues with the Scrapbook.
- Fixes a number of issues in the Association Wizard, and updates it
for the version 6 Alchemy Mindworks applications.
- Refines lots of metrics issues in the drawing engine, especially
when it's zoomed.
- Fixes a bug in the filter color selection window.
- Speeds up and generally improves the antialiasing engine that handles
most of e-Paint's drawing functions.
- Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from
installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of
Windows.
- Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates the documentation.
You can download e-Paint 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 5 on or after
January 1, 2015, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to e-Paint 6.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint prior to
January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to e-Paint 6 for half the cost of a new
single-user license.
When you first run e-Paint 6, it will check to see if you have a
registration for e-Paint 5 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 e-Paint 6's menu
bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pntkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 6 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
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This release addresses a number of minor issues that crept into the
initial version 6 release. We recommend that all users of Graphic
Workshop Professional download and install it.
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Graphic Workshop Professional 6 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Graphic Workshop
Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able
to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop
Professional 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will
notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call
for significant system resources, such as thumbnail management.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Graphic Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 5.
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WHAT'S NEW
The changes in version 6 include:
- Graphic Workshop Professional 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10.
- Graphic Workshop Professional 6 features a comprehensive EXIF editor
to allow anyone with a digital camera - or a cell phone or a tablet -
to view, modify and expand upon the hidden metadata stored in JPEG
files.
- The ancillary EXIF functions in Graphic Workshop have been rewritten
to make them compliant with the current EXIF specification.
- The browser thumbnail interface has been rewritten to make it quicker
and more intuitive. The most obvious manifestation of this will be
the items in a browser visibly disabling when Graphic Workshop is
busy.
- The right-click-to-exit function in the View window has been refined
to prevent it from summoning the browser right-click menu under some
builds of Windows.
- Items can be removed from the History panes in the Destination,
Move Copy and Search windows. Hold down the Alt key and select the
item to be removed.
- A somewhat insidious resource leak in the browser user interface has
been addressed.
- The Black Threshold and White Threshold filters now include an
optional antialias mode for better image quality when you process
your subjects to look like ghosts and vampires.
- The middle-click zoom toggle in View mode has been updated to prevent
if from initiating multiple zoom changes in a single click under some
builds of Windows.
- A resource leak that turned up in the quick rename function and the
Favorites window has been addressed.
- The thumbnail manager for Graphic Workshop's browser windows is
considerably quicker.
- Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from
installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of
Windows.
- Most of the graphic file format readers are significantly faster.
- Graphic Workshop requires less memory to run, which will make it
and anything else running under Windows quite a bit speedier,
especially on systems with limited system resources.
Please see the discussion of the version 6 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v6-upgrades/
You can Graphic Workshop Professional 6 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you’re welcome to a free
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 6.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5 prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 6, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 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 6'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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PLUGINS
All the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been
upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 6.
If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous
release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still
valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this
plugin.
All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html
IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under Graphic Workshop 5 and
you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 5 to replace it with the new
Graphic Workshop Professional 6, please be sure uninstall all your
version 5 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 5.
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