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Contents:

1. Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 3 (new this weekend)
2. Announcing Animation Workshop 15 (second notification)
3. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 (additional )
4. Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details

Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 3

Graphic Workshop Professional 15 has been updated.

In this release:

• JPEG: The Graphic Workshop Turbo JPEG library has been updated to version 3.0.1 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
  
  
• MOZ JPEG: The Graphic Workshop MOZ JPEG plugin has been updated to version 4.1.4, and Graphic Workshop's internal interface for it has been expanded to make it a lot quicker when it's called by the Graphic Workshop supercompressor.
  
  If you use the MOZ JPEG plugin to create the smallest possible JPEG documents, be sure to install this update.
  
  
• Favor Turbo JPEG: The Favor Turbo JPEG option in the JPG, PNG and WebP tab of Graphic Workshop's Setup window will allow Graphic Workshop to use the shockingly quick Turbo JPEG library to read JPEG documents even if you've selected another JPEG Processor to write them. This is exceedingly cool if you've installed the aforementioned MOZ JPEG plugin to create really small JPEG files, but want to view JPEGs without delay.
  
  
• Turbo Fast DCT: While a complete explanation of this parameter could put bricks to sleep, the Turbo JPG Fast DCT option in Graphic Workshop's Setup could hitherto have been ignored by the Turbo JPEG library in some circumstances. This has been nailed. For most applications of Graphic Workshop, this option should be disabled. You'll find it in the JPG, PNG and WebP tab... along with an explanation to put bricks to sleep, should you read the Help for it.
  
  
• Matrix: A number of simple two-row matrix styles have been added to the Matrix window. Look toward the end of the matrix list for Wallpaper.
  
  
• Write File Comments: A bug in the file comment write logic that appeared under some configurations of Windows is history.
  
  
• Animation Workshop UltraLight: A number of issues with the Animation Workshop UltraLight rendering engine's object removal logic have been addressed.
  

Announcing Animation Workshop 15

Animation Workshop 15 has been released.

We've added new functionality to Animation Workshop, improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10 and 11. (We hasten to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

Among the new features and enhancements to Animation Workshop 15, you'll find...

• Speed: A quicker and more efficient architecture to make the most of the latest releases of Windows.
  
  
• Animated PNG: Animation Workshop will now import animated PNG animations... even the really weird ones.
  
  
• WebP Security: Animation Workshop's WebP library has been updated to the latest release to address some security issues.
  
  We'd like to urge all users of Animation Workshop to update to this release as quickly as possible.
  
  
• Rendering Engine: A number of issues with the Animation Workshop rendering engine's object removal logic have been addressed.
  
  
• Themes: An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy Mindworks software that could leak resources and occasionally crash the applications in question has been mercilessly stomped.
  
  
• Animations on Background: Animation Workshop will now automatically enable its On Background option for imported animations when it thinks they require this option. You can disabuse it of doing so in Setup. See the discussion of Object Removal in the Animation Workshop manual for more about this.
  
  
• Click to Close: Animation Workshop's View window can now be closed by clicking outside it. This behavior can be disabled in Setup if you find you don't like it.
  
  
• 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 done so previously, we recommend that you install the Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.

Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop 15.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 14 on or after June 1, 2023, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Animation Workshop 15.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 14 prior to June 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 15 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Animation Workshop 15, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

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Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 15

The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 has been released.

We've added new functionality to The Ultimate Screen Clock, improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10 and 11. (We hasten to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

Among the new features and enhancements to The Ultimate Screen Clock 15, you'll find..

• WebP: The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.
  
  
• Analog Smartwatch: The analog Smartwatch clock style won’t check your blood pressure, notify you of new friends at your Facebook account, text your stock broker or improve your sleep patterns. This said, it never needs recharging and it won’t wear the hair away on your wrist.
  
  The analog Smartwatch comes in two sizes and five colors, and it isn’t made of ethically-sourced rhodium. Adventurous users may want to use The Ultimate Screen Clock's style override option to experiment with different colors for its hands.
  
  
• Digital Smartwatch: The digital Smartwatch offers all the leading-edge features of its analog sibling, above, with a large digital display and no detectable hands.
  
  It’s hundreds of dollars cheaper than a conventional smartwatch, and rarely appears pretentious or vulgar.
  
  The Digital Smartwatch style also comes in two sizes and five colors. No one knows what the control on the right side of its case actually does, so pretty much like a real smartwatch.
  
  
• Octagon: The must-have accessory for any serious pirate ship, trans-galactic yacht or trendy fish restaurant, the Octagon clock style sings of the grey-green mantle of the endless seas before the days of GPS, satellite telephones and ravening environmental activists from upstate New York gluing themselves to the forecastle.
  
  Octagon comes in two sizes. A cutlass and a shoulder parrot are optional.
  
  
• Mercury: It’s the messenger of the gods, the only known metallic element to melt at room temperature and the planet in our solar system where sunblock is never optional.
  
  More to the point, it’s a shockingly cool clock style.
  
  Bright, fluid and transcendent, Mercury is available in three sizes and four colors, with and without digital dissolve. The thumbnail above hardly does it justice, but if you click on it, you'll see a far better representation of its epic coolness.
  
  
• Global Clocks: The Ultimate Screen Clock's Global Clocks window will display 24 analog clock faces, one for each time zone on Earth. It will look more or less like the window to your right, if substantially larger – we hasten to add that you can change the clock style it displays its many time zones with.
  
  It can also be configured to display 27 time zones, including the half-hour zones used in Newfoundland, India and Australia.
  
  To access the Global Clocks window, right-click in The Ultimate Screen Clock and select Global Clocks from the menu that appears.
  
  The clock style used by the Global Clocks window can be configured through the Styles sub-menu of The Ultimate Screen Clock.
  
  
• Startup Window: Users who need The Ultimate Screen Clock to open one of its ancillary functions when it starts up can now configure it to do so in its Setup window. Use the Startup Window field.
  
  You could, for example, have the Global Clocks window appear, if you wanted to be apprised of the time around the world.
  
  Once you close a window opened by the Startup Window option, The Ultimate Screen Clock will behave normally.
  
  Hold down the left Ctrl key on your keyboard when you start The Ultimate Screen Clock to bypass this setting.
  
  
• 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 done so previously, we recommend that you install the Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.

Click on the blue button to download The Ultimate Screen Clock 15.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 14 May 1, 2023, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 15.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 14 prior to May 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 15, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

The deck watch graphic at the beginning of this section is by Volodymyr Horbovyy, licensed through Alamy Ltd. 

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