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Upgrades That’ll Keep You Humming Along

You want to keep your PC safe and secure. We want to keep your PC safe and secure. The majority of our apps
featured this month will do just that. We’re also spotlighting an alternative to the stock firmware ASUS uses in its
wireless routers.

SOFTWARE UPDATES backing up files and folders to a variety as it fixes a handful of bugs related to the
of destinations (FTP server, networked brand-new UI, which NewSoftwares.net
Cyrobo Software Clean Space 7.04 drives, USB thumbdrives), duplicating the introduced a few days earlier in the 2.1.0
If you’re not satisfied with the program backups, and compressing everything to release. (That earlier release also squashed
currently assigned to wipe the digital save space. Released at the beginning of the some bugs that affected Win10 users.)
sludge from your PC, why don’t you let year, the latest update introduces a handful www.newsoftwares.net/usb-secure
Cyrobo Software’s Clean Space take a of minor changes and improvements.
swing at it? Windows 10 users stand to Now, a “Detailed Information” option will
gain the most from version 7.04, which display each file above the progress bar as NoBot 1.0.3.5
adds a pair of options to the app. Now, it’s being copied. Exiland Backup should A flurry of recent updates helps this
Clean Space will clean Win10’s cache of also be more efficient as it deletes files malware removal tool (which finds and
pinned items, and it can also delete the during synchronization. eradicates bots, RATs, miners, keyloggers,
recently used app history. Torch browser https://exiland-backup.com and more) be an even more efficient killing
cleaning is new in this update, as well. machine. The last two updates—1.0.3.5
https://www.cyrobo.com and 1.0.3.4—have improved the app’s
Justmapzz 3.0.1 detection capabilities, and version 1.0.3.3
Contrary to what its name would have included a new batch of preloaded virus
EasyTigerApps you believe, Justmapzz does more than definitions. Version 1.0.3.5 adds “Threat
Fused For Windows 10 1.2.3.0 just maps. It can aggregate routes from a Type” to the Scan tab and fixes a few
For photogs who’d like to have a little number of providers (such as Google, Bing, bugs, while version 1.0.3.4 slightly tweaks
fun, Fused is like a party for your images and MapQuest), display elevation charts Windows file and Registry scanning.
and video. Available for iOS and Win10, (a recently added feature), retrieve weather nobotsecurity.com
the app makes double exposure a piece forecasts for any point on a map, and more.
of cake. Go ahead and layer a video over In version 3.0.1, Justmapzz’s elevation charts
a picturesque photo background, blend receive an upgrade; now, they’re interactive.
images together, and perform a variety of Click a point on the elevation chart, and
other cool edits quickly and easily. The Justmapzz will pinpoint it on the map, and DRIVER BAY
headlining feature for the latest Windows vice versa. The update also includes “various
version adds Facebook video sharing. interface improvements” and exterminates a Asuswrt-Merlin 380.64_2
EasyTigerApps also includes three new free handful of bugs. ASUS uses its AsusWRT firmware,
“Artists Collections”—videos and images www.justmapzz.com which is based on Tomato, in several of
from aspiring artists you can mix with your its wireless routers. Don’t like it? Swap it
own shots. Version 1.2.3.0 features general for Asuswrt-Merlin. (A list of supported
performance improvements, as well. NewSoftwares.net routers is available at the firmware
easytigerapps.com USB Secure 2.1.1 website’s About page.) Versions 380.64_2
For all the emphasis we put on locking and 380.64_1 made small changes to
down our desktop systems, we don’t often version 380.64, which added the ability
Exiland Backup 4.4 give removable media the same treatment. to alert users to new firmware availability.
Maybe you only want to use Exiland Leave that job to USB Secure, which This feature is actually pretty handy in
Backup to keep your data backed up to password-protects USB thumbdrives, this case, since the firmware’s developer
an external drive. That’s fine, but Exiland SSDs, external drives, and memory frequently releases updates.
Backup can do a lot more than that, cards. The latest update is a small one, https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca

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