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| History of |
| Amaze |
| Photo and Multimedia Screen Saver |
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v9.0 New Features
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Roundup of many unofficial releases |
v8.0 Top Five New Features
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26 cool new transition effects featuring hearts, stars, crosses and explosions |
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Transition effects are now categorized to make it easier to find your favorites |
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Photos display with improved quality during multishow |
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Faster loading of large photos |
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Windows 7 improvements including display of progress in task bar |
v7.0 Top Ten New Features
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Completely revamped interface |
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Dual monitor support |
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Automatically rotates digital camera photos for display |
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New keyboard shortcuts to mute (M) and advance music (N) during slideshow |
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Multiple photos mode now supports slideshow captions |
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Fonts can be specified for slideshow captions |
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Hides cursor during video playback |
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New texture files |
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Improved performance |
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Windows 7 support |
v6.0 Top Five New Features
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Added support for many new image formats: Alias Wavefront RLE (*.pix), Apple Pict (*.pict), AVS (*.avs), Camera Digital Negative (*.dng), FITS (*.fits), FlashPix (*.fpx), Gimp Image (*.xcf), Graphviz DOT (*.dot), HDF (*.hdf), HP PCL Printer Image (*.pcl), JBIG (*.jbig, *.jbg, *.bie), Khoros VIFF (*.viff), Kodak Cineon (*.cin), Magick (*.miff), Matlab (*.mat), MTV Raytracing Image (*.mtv), Palm Pixmap (*.palm), Scalable Vector Graphic (*.svg), Seattle File Works (*.pwp), SMTPE DPX (*.dpx), Sun Rasterfile (*.sun), Vicar Rasterfile (*.vicar), XWindows Bitmap (*.xbm), XWindows Pixmap (*.xpm) |
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You can now choose just the slideshow modes that you like and they will be displayed at random |
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Can now use gradient backgrounds in all screen saver modes |
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IPTC descriptions (such as used by Picasa, MegaView and PhotoShop) can be automatically displayed over your photos |
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Various styling enhancements to the configuration dialog and screen saver display and many internal improvements |
v5.0 Top Ten New Features
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Fantastic new memory wall effect displays your images as framed photographs on a wall |
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130 new transition effects with a preview displayed as you select each transition |
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Can now display raw image files from cameras (Canon, Sony, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Minolta, etc) |
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Can now configure the text that is displayed over images: filename, date and/or description, with control over font size and color |
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Now all controls are displayed using XP Themes |
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Can now specify a random display mode and Amaze will choose the multiple slideshow, pile of pix, memory wall, etc. display modes at random |
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Have improved the multiple slideshow with support for shadows and background texture files |
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Many improvements to the thumbnail display control, including threaded loading, immediate display when scrolling, etc. |
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Can now specify that all systems sounds should be disabled while the screen saver is active |
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Many usability improvements including previews, remembering of common folders and a new large thumbnail display mode |
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