[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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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, youre 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, youre 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, youre 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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