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Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 7

Graphic Workshop Professional 15 has been updated.

In this release:

JPEG: The The Ultimate Screen Clock's JPEG library has been updated to version 3.0.2 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to this release.
PNG Security: The Ultimate Screen Clock's PNG library has been updated to the latest release to address several potential security and performance issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to this release.

The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.41.

Matrix: A bug in the Graphic Workshop Matrix window that could cause it to use low-resolution images and create very fuzzy matrices as a result under some configurations of Windows has been mercilessly, and entirely, stomped.

This was a very sneaky and invidious bug.

Registration Key Window: To assist users of Alchemy Mindworks' software who encounter issues with the Registration Key window, it now includes helpful audio prompts. It talks. You'll see a message to this effect when you open it to update Graphic Workshop.

We hasten to add that if you don't find the spoken prompts as cool as we did, you can disable them in the initial prompt window, or in Graphic Workshop's Registration Key window by clicking on Silence.

Disabling the spoken prompts in any Alchemy Mindworks application will disable them for all our software, for the rest of time... or until you explicitly turn them back on by clicking on Sound in the Registration Key window.

View Mode Filters: The Open and Save logic for the View mode Filters window has been updated to address a number of Windows issues. Depending on your configuration of Windows, it hitherto could have refused to recognize filter types with spaces in their names.

The resolution for this issue was to replace all the spaces in the Open and Save file extensions with underscores. If you have any saved filters, you might need to either manually rename their file extensions or select All Files in the Filter Open window to find them.

The Open logic has also been updated to address an issue wherein newly opened filters didn't always update their respective controls correctly.

AVI: Several issues in Graphic Workshop's AVI file handling that could cause it to misbehave when it was reading or writing very large AVI documents have been addressed. The documentation for AVI in the list of formats has been updated as well.

Presentation Wizard UltraLight: An issue that could cause the client area of the Presentation Wizard UltraLight page view and editing windows to be calculated incorrectly under some configutaions of Windows has been addressed.

Calendar Wizard UltraLight: Nails a bug that caused the traditional Alchemy Mindworks soft buttons in Calendar Wizard's windows to be displayed as hard-edged Windows buttons. Admittedly, this was unlikely to bring about the immediate demise of civilization as we know it, but now it's history.

Performance: Several more performance improvements have been implemented throughout the application.

Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 15.

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.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 14, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 15 for half the current new-user price.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

The graphic of the woman with a digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under license from StockFresh. The people in the example Matrix graphic in this section don't exist — their pictures were created by an AI at This-Person-Does-not-Exist.com.

The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 Revision 2

The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 has been updated.

In this release:

Zephyr Style: Complex, intriguing, extra-dimensional and almost certainly neo-something, the Zephyr style is so named because it suggests a gentle breeze of enlightenment... and because we’ve long wanted a style name that began with Z.

Zebra is still a work in progress.

The Zephyr style comes in three colors, two levels of dark and sinister and in alternate digital dissolve versions to keep your attention TIG welded to your monitor. The example clock shown above doesn’t begin to fully express its coolness — trust us.
PNG Security: The Ultimate Screen Clock's PNG library has been updated to the latest release to address several potential security and performance issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.

The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.40.
JPEG: The The Ultimate Screen Clock's 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 The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to this release.
WebP: The The Ultimate Screen Clock's WebP library has been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to this release.
Registration Key Window: To assist users of Alchemy Mindworks' software who encounter issues with the Registration Key window, it now includes helpful audio prompts. It talks. You'll see a message to this effect when you open it to update The Ultimate Screen Clock.

We hasten to add that if you don't find the spoken prompts as cool as we did, you can disable them in the initial prompt window, or at any time The Ultimate Screen Clock's Registration Key window by clicking on Silence.

Disabling the spoken prompts in any Alchemy Mindworks application will disable them for all our software, for the rest of time... or until you explicitly turn them back on by clicking on Sound in the Registration Key window.
Memory Leak: A resource memory issue that could cause The Ultimate Screen Clock to terminate unexpectedly has been addressed.
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 15.

Note that in addition to installing The Ultimate Screen Clock, you'll probably also want to install The Ultimate Screen Clock Extra Styles library, which will augment it with wealth of additional clock styles, including the digital dissolve versions of Zephyr. The Extra Styles library is also accessible through the above big blue button.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 14, you're welcome to a half-price upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 15.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

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

Pagan Daybook 15 Revision 2

Pagan Daybook 15 has updated.

In this release:

Calendar: The Pagan Daybook Calendar window has been enhanced. It now features scroll buttons to quickly scan through the Year and Month fields. Its internal update logic is much quicker, so it looks nicer while you're browsing the centuries.
PNG Security: The Pagan Daybook PNG library has been updated to the latest release to address several potential security and performance issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of Pagan Daybook to update to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.

The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.40.
JPEG: The Pagan Daybook 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 Pagan Daybook to update to this release.
WebP: The Pagan Daybook WebP library has been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of Pagan Daybook to update to this release.
Registration Key Window: To assist users of Alchemy Mindworks' software who encounter issues with the Registration Key window, it now includes helpful audio prompts. It talks. You'll see a message to this effect when you open it to update Pagan Daybook.

We hasten to add that if you don't find the spoken prompts as cool as we did, you can disable them in the initial prompt window, or at any time Pagan Daybook's Registration Key window by clicking on Silence.

Disabling the spoken prompts in any Alchemy Mindworks application will disable them for all our software, for the rest of time... or until you explicitly turn them back on by clicking on Sound in the Registration Key window.
Memory Leak: A resource memory issue that could cause Pagan Daybook to terminate unexpectedly has been addressed.
Cloud Textures: The fractal cloud texture generator that appears in the Pagan Daybook Texture window has been updated to address a buffer overrun that could crash the software calling it.
Fractal Textures: The fractal texture generator that appears in Pagan Daybook's Texture window has been updated to improve its aspect ratio management, such that non-square textures look more natural.
Rendering Engine: A number of metrics and details have been improved in the background drawing engines for Pagan Daybook.
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 Pagan Daybook 15.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 14, you're welcome to a half-price upgrade to Pagan Daybook 15.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

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Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 7

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The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 Revision 2

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Pagan Daybook 15 Revision 2

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