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Contents:
- Announcing
The Ultimate Screen Clock 11
- Graphic
Workshop Professional 11 Revision 4 (additional notification)
- Announcing
PNG MNG Construction Set (second notification)
- Announcing GIF
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Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock
11
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We've
enhanced functionality of The Ultimate Screen Clock,
added some radical new clock styles, improved its
performance and generally refined it to better get
along with Windows 10. (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, you'll find that
it:
- Deck Watch: Adds the
Deck Watch clock style, available in two sizes and
in light and dark manifestations — the
dark version is shown here.
A revenant from the age of sail, a deck watch such
as this one would have been used to transfer the
time from a ship's chronometer to the navigator on
deck. While a fifty-dollar GPS could out-navigate
one of these things in a heartbeat today, it
wouldn't look anywhere near as cool while it was
doing so.
We hasten to add that the above clock is an
animation, not actual software. There's a one in
3600 chance that it's actually
displaying the correct time as you read this.
- Magento:
Adds the Magneto clock style, illustrated to your
right. Incandescent, luminous, attitude with
atomic-time precision... the Magneto style belongs
on your desktop and it isn't above pushing some of
your other applications out of the way to get there.
It comes in a substantial number of permutations of
colors and sizes.
The animation
above is but a pale reflection of the Magneto
style. Double-click on it to see the Magneto Large
clock full size — there's a medium size set of
styles as well. Once again, the above
clock is an animation, not actual software.
There's a one in 3600 chance
that it's actually displaying the correct time
as you read this.
- Sound
Effects: Adds optional sound effects to The
Ultimate Screen Clock's screen saver. It can beep
and crash and zap and generally express itself
whenever the moving clock changes direction, appears
or otherwise does something interesting.
You can enable or disable screen saver sounds in the
Application tab of The Ultimate Screen Clock's Setup
window. Click on the Sounds button therein to
configure your choice of the substantial internal
library of sound effects, or import your own.
- Saver
Backgrounds: Adds a number of new screen
saver background graphics fresh from an alternate
universe. Right-click in The Ultimate Screen Clock
and select Styles → Select Saver Style, and then
click on Transitions to experience the entire
library.
The new Tendrils screen saver background with the
large red Magneto clock style floating over it is
truly epic.
In addition to fractal textures and other abstract
content, The Ultimate Screen Clock can use
photographs as its screen saver backgrounds. We've
added a few examples to the library of backgrounds.
No wolves were harmed in the making of this
application — and happily, no photographers.
- Engine:
Updates the clock rendering engine to improve the
appearance of various style elements.
- Image
Libraries: All the libraries that read and
write graphics for The
Ultimate Screen Clock
have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure
and totally bulletproof. There being some really
disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the
Internet, we urge all the users of our software to
keep its security elements up to date.
- Performance:
Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.
- Documentation:
Updates the documentation.
As in years
past, when you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 11 for the first
time, it will look for a previous installation of The Ultimate
Screen Clock 10 and optionally copy your
existing configuration, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand.
Click on the
blue button to download The
Ultimate Screen Clock 11.
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 some of the ones mentioned herein. The Extra
Styles library is also accessible through this big
blue button.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 10 on or after May 1, 2020,
you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to The Ultimate
Screen Clock 11.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 10 prior to June 1, 2020, we invite you
to upgrade to The
Ultimate Screen Clock 11 for half the
current new-user price.
The first
time you run The
Ultimate Screen Clock 11, it will determine
which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
You can
access the no-cost upgrade page
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.
Depending upon your configuration of Windows, the
installer for The Ultimate Screen Clock may advise you
that a reboot of Windows is required to complete the
installation of this software. You can largely ignore
this message — Windows will remove a file from your
previous installation the next time your computer
reboots, but your current installation of The Ultimate
Screen Clock can proceed without rebooting immediately.
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Graphic Workshop Professional 11
Revision 4
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A few more
first-edition issues in Graphic Workshop Professional
11 have been addressed:
- Several
Windows-specific problems in the Social Media window
and the Social media view mode filter have been
resolved.
- A
potential security concern in the JPEG reader has
been nailed.
- The Up To
Date notification agent has been updated.
A complete
list of enhancements and bug fixes is available in the
previous
posting to this mailing list — please click on
the foregoing link.
We recommend
that everyone who previously installed Graphic
Workshop Professional 11 update to the new release.
From the
initial announcement:
Graphic
Workshop Professional 11 has been released.
We've added
new functionality to the known universe's most popular
image management application, improved its
performance, included several fresh ancillary
applications and generally refined it to better get
along with Windows 10. (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 Graphic Workshop
Professional 11, you'll find that it:
- Adds Social
Media: Quickly compose your pictures for
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other popular social
media platforms. The Social Media window will
automatically resize and crop your photographs and
apply a rich palette of backgrounds to them.
Right-click on any picture in a Graphic Workshop
browser and select Social Media from the menu that
appears, or batch-process multiple graphics through
the Image menu.
- Adds
WebP Support to Supercompressor: Graphic
Workshop's Supercompressor will automatically adjust
the compression and quality parameters of the
pictures you store to arrive at the smallest
possible files. Hitherto the province of JPEGs,
Supercompressor can now apply its stealth and
cunning to WebP documents as well, which look way
better when you need a tiny document footprint.
- Updates Image Libraries: All
the libraries that read and write graphics for
Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications have
been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and
totally bulletproof. There being some really
disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the
Internet, we urge all the users of our software to
keep its security elements up to date.
- Updates
Caption: The Graphic Workshop Caption window
will add captions to your pictures. The Caption
editor now allows for rich text — it's pretty much a
small word processor that supports multiple fonts,
typographic effects and text size changes. We hasten
to add that the original Graphic Workshop Caption
window is still available, should you prefer it, and
it now features a powerful macro language to
automatically generate captions. Select Classic
Caption Window in Setup to access it.
- Adds Absolute Noise: The
Fractals and Textures window now includes Absolute
Noise, a sophisticated, limitless fractal surface
generator. Create surreal photo backgrounds, import
flawless textures into other applications or just
lose yourself in an alternate universe. The
animation to your right illustrates a few of the
effects available through the Absolute Noise fractal
generator.
- Adds
Screen Capture Annotation: The GWS Camera
screen capture application can now optionally
include captions with the capture graphics it
creates. You can add a standard caption to every
capture, be prompted for a caption for each screen
capture or use the rich macro language of the
Caption window to create automatic captions that
include elements such as the time and date of your
capture and the title of the window that was
grabbed.
- Adds
Animation Workshop UltraLight: Graphic
Workshop now installs with a fully functional
simplified edition of our popular Animation Workshop
application to build sophisticated, editable
banners, advertisements and other complex objects
for your web pages, social media postings, e-mail
messages and PowerPoint presentations.
- Updates Matt and Frame: The
Matt and Frame window has been redesigned to make it
more intuitive, and to address a few lingering
functionality issues.
- Adds
Web Checker: Graphic Workshop's Web Checker is
an ancillary application to spider your web site and
bring to your attention any broken links and missing
graphics it encounters. It's effortless to use, and
usually a bit surprising the first time you run it
and see what it finds.
- Updates
Watermark: The Watermark window has also been
redesigned to make it more intuitive.
- Updates
GIF Construction Set UltraLight: The GIF
Construction Set UltraLight application has been
completely rewritten and expanded. It manages memory
more effectively, has a smaller code footprint than
its predecessors and is substantially quicker.
- Fixes
the Crop Window: The Crop window has been
updated to address an issue which prevented it from
correctly respecting the Windows task bar under some
configurations of Windows.
- Fixes
Animated PNG: An issue that could cause the
animated PNG viewer to display an initial blank
frame for some animations has been addressed.
- Performance:
Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues
that software developers never really stop meddling
with.
- Documentation:
Updates the documentation.
The Graphic
Workshop
Printed Reference has been revised for the
version 11 software, and it includes sections for all
the new functionality. It's available through Amazon
—there's a link to it at the Graphic Workshop web
page, and you can access it through the Get The
Graphic Workshop Printed Reference item of Graphic
Workshop's Help menu. Alternately, just click on the
book to your right.
All the
Graphic Workshop plugins have been upgraded to
install in the version 11 software. Note that if
you're currently using an earlier version of Graphic
Workshop and its attendant plugins:
- Be sure to
uninstall the version 10 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 11. Failing this,
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 should prompt you
to do so automatically the first time you run it.
- You'll
need to download and install the new plugin
installers to run under Graphic Workshop
Professional 11.
If you're
using a registered installation of the Graphic
Workshop RAW Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for
an earlier release of Graphic Workshop, note that your
existing registration key will work with the version
11 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years
past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11
for the first time, it will look for a previous
installation of Graphic Workshop Professional 10 and
optionally copy your existing configuration,
so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even
your open browser windows will be preserved.
Click
on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop
Professional 11.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020,
you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 11.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we
invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional
11 for half the current new-user price.
The first
time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your
license.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.
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Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 11
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We've added
new functionality to the world's most capable
leading-edge web animator, improved its performance,
and generally refined it to better get along with
Windows 10. (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 PNG MNG Construction Set
11, you'll find:
- Social Media:
Quickly compose your animations for Twitter,
Facebook and other popular social media platforms.
The Social Media window will automatically resize
and crop your content and apply a rich palette of
backgrounds to it. Social Media can be accessed through the PNG
MNG Construction Set Professional Block menu.
- Talkies:
The Export to Movie option can now optionally
add a sound track of your choice to digital video
created from your animations.
- Caption: The
PNG MNG Construction Set
Caption window will add captions to your
animations. The Caption editor now allows for rich
text — it's pretty much a small word processor
that supports multiple fonts, typographic effects
and text size changes. We hasten to add that the
original PNG MNG Construction Set
Caption window is still available, should you
prefer it. Select Classic Caption Window in Setup
to access it.
- Updates
Image Libraries: All the libraries that read
and write graphics for PNG MNG Construction Set
have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure
and totally bulletproof. There being some really
disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the
Internet, we urge all the users of our software to
keep its security elements up to date.
- Photostack:
The Photostack window has been refined to address a
number of performance issues for more attractive
final animations.
- Resize:
Resize is quicker, and several final frame quality
issues and a minor arithmetic error in the Resize to
Dimensions option have been resolved.
- 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 11.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 10 on or after April 1,
2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to
PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 10 prior to April 1,
2020, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction
Set Professional 11 for half the current new-user
price.
The first
time you run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11,
it will determine which upgrade option applies to your
license.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
You can access
the no-cost upgrade page
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.
Plugins
All the
animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set
Professional have been upgraded to run with PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a
previous release of PNG MNG Construction Set, your
existing registration keys are still valid. You'll
just need to download the version 11 installers for
your plugins.
All the
animation plugins are at:
IMPORTANT:
If you have plugins installed under PNG MNG
Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and
you plan to uninstall PNG MNG Construction Set 10 or
PNG MNG Construction Set 10 to replace them with the
new version 11 software, please be sure uninstall all
your version 10 plugins, and then uninstall PNG MNG
Construction Set 10 and PNG MNG Construction Set
10.
PNG MNG
Construction Set 11 will offer to automatically remove
your old plugins for you the first time it runs - go
for it, as this will save you lots of clicking later
on.
We've also
created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once
you've downloaded the version 11 installers. Please see
the the plugin help page for
assistance.
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Announcing GIF Construction Set
Professional 11
(second notification)
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A few
first-edition issues in GIF Construction Set
Professional 11 have been addressed:
- The option
to create AVI digital video with sound could create
AVI documents that didn't play properly under some
configurations of Windows. This has been fixed.
- The Resize
window didn't always resize to the specified
dimensions when the resize to Dimensions option was
selected. Now it does.
- Some
postings to this list last weekend omitted the
Download Now button for GIF Construction Set
Professional 11. It's back, below.
From the initial
announcement:
GIF Construction
Set Professional 11 has been released.
We've
added new functionality to the world's most widely-used
web animator, improved its performance, and generally
refined it to better get along with Windows 10. (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 GIF Construction Set
Professional 11, you'll find:
- Reboot: GIF
Construction Set Professional has been completely
rewritten and expanded. It manages memory more
effectively, has a smaller code footprint than its
predecessors and is substantially quicker. Most of
its functionality that previously only worked on
selected blocks will now apply to an entire
animation if no blocks are selected. The color
management logic used throughout the application
has been improved. Everything's easier and more
intuitive.
- Social Media:
Quickly compose your animations for Twitter,
Facebook and other popular social media platforms.
The Social Media window will automatically resize
and crop your content and apply a rich palette of
backgrounds to it. Social Media can be accessed through the GIF
Construction Set Professional Block menu.
- Talkies:
The Export to Movie option can now optionally
add a sound track of your choice to digital video
created from your animations.
- Caption:
The Caption window has been updated.
- Updates
Image Libraries: All the libraries that read
and write graphics for GIF Construction Set have
been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and
totally bulletproof. There being some really
disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the
Internet, we urge all the users of our software to
keep its security elements up to date.
- Photostack:
The Photostack window has been refined to address a
number of performance issues for more attractive
final animations.
- Resize:
Resize is quicker, and several final frame quality
issues have been resolved.
- 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 GIF Construction Set
Professional 11.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 10 on or after April 1,
2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to
GIF Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 10 prior to April 1,
2020, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set
Professional 11 for half the current new-user
price.
The first
time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 11, it
will determine which upgrade option applies to your
license.
Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
You can access
the no-cost upgrade page
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.
Plugins
All the
animation plugins for GIF Construction Set
Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF
Construction Set Professional 11.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a
previous release of GIF Construction Set, your
existing registration keys are still valid. You'll
just need to download the version 11 installers for
your plugins.
All the
animation plugins are at:
IMPORTANT:
If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and you plan to
uninstall GIF Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG
Construction Set 10 to replace them with the new
version 11 software, please be sure uninstall all your
version 10 plugins, and then uninstall GIF
Construction Set 10 and PNG MNG Construction Set
10.
GIF
Construction Set 11 will offer to automatically remove
your old plugins for you the first time it runs - go
for it, as this will save you lots of clicking later
on.
We've also
created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once
you've downloaded the version 11 installers. Please see
the the plugin help page for
assistance.
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