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 Contents:

1.  GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 5
   
2.  Graphic Workshop Professional - Ten Cool Features
   
3.  Presentation Wizard 10 Revision 2 (second notification)
4.  PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 3 (second notification)
5. The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision 2 (additional notification)
6.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
   
   

GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 5

• Application Security: In our continuing determination to ensure that GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
  
  
• Photostack: The Photostack window now has an anti-alias option to improve its drawing quality — a lot.
  
  
• Supercompressor: A bug that prevented the Prune option of the Sueprcompressor from working as effectively as it could have has been remorselessly stomped.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.
  

Graphic Workshop Professional - 10 Cool Features

Graphic Workshop Professional 10 is rich with functionality... some of which you might not know it has. Here are ten leading-edge features you can access in Graphic Workshop.

• Supercompresor: The JPEG supercompressor will let you interactively refine your JPG graphics to make them as small as you need them to be, with the best possible image quality. Master the nuances of JPEG without having to read up on quality factors, sub-sampling or color models.
  
  
• Print Poster: Sometimes 8½ by 11 inches really doesn't cut it. Fire up the Print Poster window in Graphic Workshop to have your pictures printed over multiple pages that can be cut and assembled into posters of any size you require. Let your best work be seen from space.
  
  
• Photo Fine-Tune: The Photo Fine-Tune filter in the the View mode Filter window will refine your photographs with a few mouse clicks. It combines color adjustment, contrast and brightness and tone mapping... all in a simple, intuitive environment that won't require that you understand a word of the sentence you just read.
  
  
• EXIF: Your graphic documents can contain EXIF metadata that defines the camera settings you used when you took your pictures; the GPS location of your camera; hidden content about the camera and attachments involved and much more. Graphic Workshop's EXIF editor will let you adjust these fields as you see fit. Its EXIF security window will optionally delete your EXIF data entirely, so the pictures you post to social media don't tell the world's subspecies precisely where to go to steal your stuff.
  
  
• Watermark: Add professional text or graphic watermarks to your pictures to permanently identify them as your work. Share your photographs, not your royalties.
  
  
• GWS Camera Screen Capture: Capture all or part of your Windows desktop to graphic files with your choice of options. Graphic Workshop's screen capture can automatically locate the topmost window on your desktop and save it without requiring that you manually select it. It will store sequentially-numbered captures without interaction. It can even include your current cursor.
  
  
• Photography Workshop: Adjust your photographs using a gallery of pre-configured imaging filters for effects that range from subtle and sophisticated to heart-stoppingly extraterrestrial. Open any picture in the Photography Workshop window and just click on the variation you like.
  
  
• Identify Mystery Graphics: If you've ever downloaded a picture from the Internet and discovered that it won't open in any of your installed software, you'll find Graphic Workshop's ability to determine what's in your mysterious files to be just this side of spooky. Double-click on a problem graphic from within Graphic Workshop... or use its dedicated Identify Mystery Files menu option... to have it determine the correct file type in question and rename your file correctly.
  
  
• The UltraLight Screen Clock: A simplified version of our popular Ultimate Screen Clock application, the screen clock that installs with Graphic Workshop will display your choice of digital and analog desktop clocks. Sufficiently cool to shatter penguins, you can have the clock configured to your liking in substantially less time than you've taken to read this paragraph.
  
  
• Icon Editor: Create and modify Windows icons with an easily-mastered palette of tools and functionality. Customize your desktop and build unforgettable favicons for your web pages. If this application was any easier to use it would work by thought control... and our lawyers would scream loudly enough to be heard in Patagonia.
  
  

Presentation Wizard 10 Revision 2 (second notification)

• Animated PNG: Presentation Wizard now supports animated PNG in its animation import functionality, an example of which appears to your right. Enjoy the state of the art in animation... and let GIF become a distant memory possibly resulting from eating the wrong kind of mushrooms.
  
  
• Animation Engine: Presentation Wizard's animation engine has been refined, improved and accelerated past the speed of light. It's tighter, more accurate and bereft of a few bugs that crept into earlier releases.
  
  
• JPEG Security: Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Presentation Wizard to the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.
  
  
• PNG Security: Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Presentation Wizard to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues.
  
  
• Application Security: Addresses a particularly stealthy and pernicious memory issue which afflicts the internal configuration logic and themes used by Presentation Wizard. 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 Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
  
  
• Legacy Windows: Support for Windows screen drivers with eight or fewer bits of color has been removed from Presentation Wizard and its document run-time. This has made the run-time somewhat smaller and substantially faster when it's asked to display still or animated graphics. Eight-bit Windows screen drivers haven't been a thing since the turn of the century — they won't be missed.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.
  

PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 4
(second notification)

• Frame: An issue with the Frame window that prevented it from correctly adding frames to WebP animations has been addressed.
  
  
• Animation Wizard: A configuration issue with Animation Wizard which caused it to create animations in which all the frames were completely transparent if the Use As Is option was selected and Preserve Transparency was enabled has been nailed.
  
  
• Eyedropper: A bug that caused the Eyedropper color selector in the Transparency editor for still PNG documents to malfunction has been fixed.
  
  
• Photostack: The Photostack window now has an anti-alias option to improve its drawing quality — a lot.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.
  

The Ultimate Screen Clock 10 Revision 2
(additional notification)

• 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.
  

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