[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat Mar 11 08:37:00 EST 2017




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     Contents:


      1. Announcing Voice Manager 7

      2. Screen Saver Construction Set 7 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 
 
      3. 10 Perspicacious Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 
         (Second Notification) 

      4. LizardLand Is Now In Print!!!

      5. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     Now available printed on genuine dead trees. See item 4, below.

         http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html


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     1. Announcing Voice Manager 7
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     The Yamaha reface DX synthesizer is amazingly cool... among other 
     things because its voices can be reprogrammed to make it sound like
     pretty much anything you can imagine. 

     In the event that you're not feeling very imaginative, there's also a 
     voice-sharing community from which to download buckets of fresh sounds
     for it.

     Alchemy Mindworks' Voice Manager will keep track of banks of 
     synthesizer voices, allowing them to be saved as permanent disk files. 
     It also embodies an intuitive voice editor, and numerous other tools
     to make this instrument totally rock.

     Voice Manager represents a bit of history for us - a similar 
     application was one of the first software products Alchemy Mindworks 
     created, back in the 1980s. (Please note that should you e-mail us and 
     ask if they really had computers back then, we'll dispatch a leather-
     winged demon of the night to your digs before you've finished clicking
     on SEND.)

     If you play keyboards, we invite you to check out Voice Manager at:

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

     (Reface DX is a trademark of Yamaha Corporation. Alchemy Mindworks 
     has no business affiliation with Yamaha Corporation. The names reface 
     DX and Yamaha are used herein for descriptive purposes only.)




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     2. Screen Saver Construction Set 7 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 
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     Create epic Windows screen savers!


     Screen Saver Construction Set 7 has been updated. This release:


     - Addresses a number of issues in the Print function. The Print 
       selection window now correctly selects the current default printer. 
       The print resolution works correctly for all combinations of frame
       and printer resolutions. A number of reproduction bugs have been 
       stomped.
  
 
     - Updates the screen saver runtime.


     - Addresses a number of metrics issues in the resolution logic so
       your screen savers will appear correctly on systems having varying
       desktop dimensions.


     - Fixes a bug in the animation engine.


     - Addresses a number of user interface issues.


     - 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 have previously registered or upgraded to Screen Saver 
     Construction Set 6, you can upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 7 
     for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     Please see:

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

     to upgrade.



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     3. 10 Perspicacious Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 
        (Second Notification) 
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     If you're among the tens of thousands of Graphic Workshop users who 
     don't follow us on Twitter - we're in no way offended by this - you'll 
     likely have missed the ongoing tweets that deal with often-overlooked 
     features of the known universe's most popular image management 
     software.

     Graphic Workshop Professional 7's ability to do practically everything 
     that can be done to pictures makes it relatively easy to use it every 
     day for years and still miss a few of its better tricks.

     Here are ten more of the finest features you never knew it had, fresh 
     from the Alchemy Mindworks Twitter account:


     - The Radial Blur filter - ectoplasm on demand.

     - The Adjust window - refine your photos interactively.

     - The Scrapbook - the Windows clipboard will never lose anything, ever 
       again.

     - The Stand-alone Archive Manager - ZIP files will fear you.

     - Redact your subjects in seconds with the Face Detection filter.

     - Tired of this universe? Create one of your own with Fractals and 
       Textures.

     - The Canvas filter - flawless Roman mosaics in ten clicks or less.

     - Batch resize - 65,000 megapixel photos down to screen size in 10 
       clicks or less.

     - Convert your photos into self-displaying Windows applications.

     - Create very, very, very, very, very small JPEGs with Supercompressor.



     You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from:

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


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     If you're still using Graphic Workshop 6, we invite you to enjoy all 
     the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool things to click 
     on - for half the new-user registration price. Please see: 

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

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     See http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter.



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     4. LizardLand Is Now In Print!!!
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     Steven William Rimmer's biting satire LizardLand is now available in 
     paperback, through the thaumaturgy of Amazon's print-on-demand books.

     Should you not have encountered this technology previously, print-on-
     demand does pretty much what it says on the box. When you order a copy
     of LizardLand through Amazon, a digital press prints one book, just
     for you.

     Remarkably, the production quality of print-on-demand books is if 
     anything better than that of commercial mass-market fiction. In 
     addition, your book will have been manufactured a few days before you
     receive it, rather than having been stored for months in a warehouse in
     Duluth.

     The production costs of print-on-demand books being relatively low,
     we've been able to use really nice paper, large trade-size pages and
     big, readable type.

     Because these books are sold trough Amazon, you can enjoy free shipping
     with a Prime account, or if you buy enough other stuff to reach their
     free shipping threshold.

     Finally, print-on-demand means pretty much zero waste. Every copy of
     LizardLand that gets printed will actually be sold. By comparison,
     traditional publishing could see three quarters of the books that were
     manufactured ultimately being "remaindered" and destroyed.

     Please see:

         http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html

     to enjoy LizardLand in print. Wise-assed dinosaurs and their profane 
     lawyer await you.



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