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Contents:
1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7 *(additional
notification)
2. * The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision 2*
3. * PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 3***(new this weekend)**
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 7
(additional notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. Among its new and
updated features are:
* *Application Security:* In our continuing determination to ensure
that Graphic Workshop presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find
any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
We urge all Graphic Workshop users to update to the current release
and nail this vulnerability before it nails you.
* *Thumbnail Pre-cache: *Adds a per-browser option to enable thumbnail
pre-caching only when a browser is top-most.
Thumbnail pre-caching speeds up Graphic Workshop's browsers
considerably, but it can have a substantial memory footprint for
browsers looking at a lot of graphics. This refinement allows you to
have it automatically enabled only for the browser you're working
with at the moment.
Right-click in a browser, select Thumbnails and select Pre-cache
Thumbnails When Active to fire up this option.
* *Textures and Fractals:* Adds Scratch textures to the Graphic
Workshop Textures and Fractals window. Wild, unleashed and as
chaotic as you want to be, Scratch suggests bad urban art applied
with cheap spray paint, a dystopian landscape viewed from space by
an aging reconnaissance satellite or a really badly-behaved cat.
The example animation to your right, comprised of several variations
on one Scratch texture, represents but a fraction of its capabilities.
* *View Mode Shortcuts:* Hold down Ctrl in Graphic Workshop's View
mode and click on the Info button in its tool bar to quickly open
the Crop window.
The View mode tool bar's button tips have been expanded to include
their alternate functions enabled holding down the Shift and Ctrl
keys. If you'd like to learn all their secrets, hover your mouse
over each button for a moment.
* *Animated PNG:* Addresses an issue in the transparency management of
the animated PNG viewer.
* *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional 10 yet, you might
want to review a more extensive list of its new functionality and
enhancements <http://doc.mindworkshop.com/918.html>.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **Graphic Workshop
Professional 10* for half the single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision 2
The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 has been updated. Among its new and
enhanced features are:
* *Oracle Style:* Adds the Oracle clock style, a dark, sinister and
evocative feature for any desktop. The Oracle style comes in two
sizes, each one with enough attitude to divert a raging bull
elephant and convince it to pursue a career in glassblowing. Your
mileage may vary, but if you do get the whole elephant thing to work
out, we'd be interested in seeing your videos.
We hasten to add that the clock illustrated here is an animation,
not actual software. The odds of it happening to be telling you the
correct time as you read this are really, really long.
* *Screen Saver: *Addresses an issue in The Ultimate Screen Clock's
screen saver which could cause it to display some textured
backgrounds with incomplete tiling under some configurations of Windows.
This update also adds a number of new background textures for The
Ultimate Screen Clock's screen saver.
* *Application Security:* Addresses a particularly stealthy and
pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration
logic used by The Ultimate Screen Clock. Left to its own devices,
this one could crash these applications and potentially compromise
your Windows security.
In addition, in our continuing determination to ensure that The
Ultimate Screen Clock presents no opportunities for cybercretins to
exploit, we've done a line-by-line review of its source code to find
any potential buffer overruns. Several turned up. Now they're history.
We urge all users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to the
current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
* *Pressure Style:* Adds the Pressure style, in two sizes and lots of
colors, as illustrated here. Its digits appearing to have been
pressed from the sort of single-use plastic that sends green people
into low Earth orbit, the Pressure style is cheerful, insouciant and
probably soon to be made illegal on the west coast.
* *Dissolve: *Adds dissolve animated options to selected digital clock
styles. Rather than simply changing digits, many of The Ultimate
Screen Clock's digital styles can also dissolve between them. The
dissolve effect is subtle but intriguing. Select the digital
dissolve options in the clock style window to see this one at work.
Note that most of the dissolve options are installed by the
newly-updated extra styles library.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download The Ultimate Screen Clock 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>
Extra Styles
In addition to The Ultimate Screen Clock itself, the extra styles
library for The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 has also been updated. Its
download buttons can be found by clicking on the above DOWNLOAD NOW
button, right after those of the clock itself. We recommend that users
of The Ultimate Screen Clock also install the new extra styles library
to access its full palette of available clock styles.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **The Ultimate Screen Clock
10* for half the single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 3
(new this weekend)
PNG MNG Construction Set 10 has been updated. Among its new and enhanced
features are:
* *Update:* A number of minor issues that crept into the previous
release &mdashh; which was pretty much a complete rewrite of the
application — have been addressed. We'd like to urge all users of
PNG MNG Construction Set to update, lest you be driven mad by these
things.
Our understanding is that few if any health insurers are prepared to
accept claims of madness caused by software.
* *Animated PNG:* Several minor compatibility issues in the animated
PNG support have been stomped.
* *WebP Transparency:* Nails a problem that prevent WebP animations
with transparent elements from displaying correctly under some
builds of Windows.
* *Image Editors:* The animation format image editor windows have been
hardened to manage image size changes wrought by their respective
Paint buttons correctly.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
If you missed the previous update for PNG MNG Construction Set 10, we
invite you to check out its new and enhanced functionality
<http://doc.mindworkshop.com/948.html> — it totally rocks.
Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 9, we invite you to *upgrade to **PNG MNG Construction
Set 10* for half the single-user license price.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain
by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated_PNG_example_bouncing_beach_ball.png>.
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