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  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.

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  • 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.

 Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 10.

 

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.




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.


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.



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.

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If you missed the previous update for PNG MNG Construction Set 10, we invite you to check out its new and enhanced functionality — it totally rocks.

Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set 10.


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.


The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons.

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