[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

Alchemy Mindworks alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com
Sat Nov 5 09:15:53 EDT 2016




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     Contents:


      1. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 

      2. Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 7 (Second Notification)  

      3. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 2 (Additional Notification) 

      4. Customers in the UK Channel Islands (Second Notification)  

      5. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     1. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 
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     The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 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 7 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 running complex animated 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 6.


     - Adds the Neural Network style. A logic-rendered seven-segment digital
       style like Ion Drive, this one uses lots and lots and lots of blinking
       LEDs to simulate the endless flow of global data. Alternately, it can 
       look kind of festive, depending upon your mood. Comes in three sizes
       and lots of colors.

       Note that most of the Neural Network clocks reside in the extra clock
       installer, as they're somewhat huge.


     - Fixes some metrics issues in the Ion Drive style.


     - Addresses a number of issues in the Days Until and Days between 
       windows.


     - Improves the speed and efficiency of the clock rendering engine.


     - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent 
       updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they
       sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this
       key is already registered" message should be a distant memory.


     - Updates lots of user-interface issues throughout the application.

    
     - The Ultimate Screen Clock 7 uses an altered installation structure 
       that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and 
       overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably 
       certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history.


     - Updates UpToDate.


     - 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 7 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 6 on or after April 1, 2016, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to 
     The Ultimate Screen Clock 7. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 6 prior to April 1, 2016, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run The Ultimate Screen Clock 7, it will check to 
     see if you have a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 6 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 right 
     click > Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item 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. Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 7 (Second Notification)  
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     Screen Saver Construction Set 7 has been released.

     We've refined the internal architecture of Screen Saver Construction 
     Set 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 Screen Saver 
     Construction Set 7 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 assembling complex 
     documents.
     
     The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to 
     Screen Saver Construction Set that were impractical or genuinely 
     impossible under version 6.


     - Build screen saver advertisements - this release adds support for 
       On Close objects. Users of your screen savers will be able to visit 
       your web page when their screen savers close. See the section of the 
       Screen Saver Construction Set documentation that deals with On Close 
       objects for more about how this works...it's cool.
 

     - Fixes several problems with the Installer script generator that 
       could cause it to build incomplete or incorrect installers under 
       some circumstances.


     - Addresses an issue in the screen saver run time that could cause some
       page objects to blink or flash when they were first displayed, 
       depending on your build of Windows and your display hardware and 
       driver.


     - Fixes a memory leak in the page object management logic.


     - Addresses a number of issues with the Favorites window.


     - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent 
       updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they
       sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this
       key is already registered" message should be a distant memory.


     - Updates lots of user-interface issues throughout the application.

    
     - Screen Saver Construction Set 7 uses an altered installation 
       structure that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning 
       and overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably 
       certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history.


     - Updates UpToDate.


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


     - Updates the documentation.

    

     You can download Screen Saver Construction Set 7 from:

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


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver 
     Construction Set 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 7. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver 
     Construction Set 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Screen 
     Saver Construction Set 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Screen Saver Construction Set 7, it will check to 
     see if you have a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 6 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 Screen Saver 
     Construction Set 7's menu bar.

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

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

     and the upgrade order page at:

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


 

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    3. Graphic Workshop Professional 7 Revision 2 (Additional Notification) 
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been updated. This release:


     - Addresses a number of issues that crept into the first release of 
       Graphic Workshop Professional 7... as software is wont to do.

  
     - Modifies the registration logic to work around Windows 10's recent 
       updates, which have been randomly de-registering software when they
       sneak silently onto your computer. The sudden appearance of the "this
       key is already registered" message should be a distant memory.


     - Updates UpToDate.


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

     - Updates the documentation.



     We'd like to urge all the users of Graphic Workshop Professional 7 to
     download and install this update... doubly so if you're running 
     Windows 10.


     You can Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from:

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



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you’re welcome to a no-cost
     upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Graphic 
     Workshop Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 7, it will check to see 
     if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 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 7's menu bar.

     The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on 
     November 30, 2016.

     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 7.

     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 7 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 6 and
     you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 6 to replace it with the new
     Graphic Workshop Professional 7, please be sure uninstall all your 
     version 6 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 6.



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     4. Customers in the UK Channel Islands (Second Notification) 
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     It has come to our attention that those of our customers who reside on 
     one of the UK channel islands - Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark or 
     Herm - don't have to pay VAT for Alchemy Mindworks software... or 
     anything else.

     We're not sure how you arranged this, but very cool!

     If you have a Channel Islands UK credit card billing address, please 
     enter the name of the island you reside on in the Town or City field 
     of the Alchemy Mindworks e-commerce page and Channel Island in the 
     Province or State field. 

     No VAT or VAT service charges will appear in your order total.

     We hasten to add that the order form's logic looks for specific names
     in determining whether its users are entitled to this exemption. 
     Spelling counts.



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