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BinaryFruit today announces the immediate availability of DriveDx 1.4.2, its latest solution for SSD and HDD health diagnostics and monitoring. As Mac OS X does not have a comprehensive drive health indicator, DriveDx fills a critical role in measuring the overall health of both SSD and HDD drives. Because DriveDx tracks more indicators of impending failure than any other product on the market, users will get advanced warning before their drives fail.

Spike Software Inc. today announces Audio Switcher 2.5.6, the latest update to its popular menubar applet utility developed exclusively for Mac OS X. Audio Switcher enhances the built-in behavior of Mac OS X’s Sound Preferences by allowing you switch audio devices from the menu bar. Audio Switcher also allows to setup default input/output devices. Audio Switcher now lists the name of the input/output source of connected devices instead of Default Output or Built-In Input.

Ultralab today releases Xmas Cam 1.0, a new photo editing app that turns photos into colorful Christmas greeting cards. Xmas Cam features the most impressive selection of Christmas stickers and decorations, including numerous wreaths, baubles, snowflakes, bells and bows as well as warm wishes. Greetings, frames and objects can be applied to a single photo in any quantity, creating fascinating holiday collages. A variety of extra sticker sets can also be downloaded through in-app purchases.

E-protect releases major improvements for the iPhone/iPad app for private landlords and changes app name to Landlordy with version 1.4 update. Always in the user’s pocket or purse, Landlordy tracks rent payments and expenses, provides instant financial reports, helps to prepare and send rental invoices and payment receipts to tenants and reminds for payments, expenses and invoices due as well as upcoming lease agreement renewals.

Chicago based Audacious Software today introduces Santa’s Map to Christmas 1.0.2, their new reference app for iOS, Android and Amazon handheld devices. Journey to Christmas past, discover faraway, magical places, and experience the wonder of the season like never before. Santa’s Map to Christmas illustrates and charts beloved Christmas stories, giving yuletide enthusiasts a merry new way to enjoy their most cherished tales. Automatic updates retrieve new stories, illustrations, and maps daily.

Melbourne based developer, Interactive Coconut today introduces Grabble Words! 1.0, their new game title developed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Love word games? Grabble Words! is a free two-player game that is simple in concept, but fun and challenging to play. Take turns to find a word from the pool of letters, or grab a word from your opponent, by adding letters to the word. When the tiles run out the player with the highest letter score wins.

MobiBlossom Solutions Inc. announces FabSwapp 1.5.2, an important update to their item swapping app for iOS devices. Find a new home for your once-loved items with a local community of like-minded people where personal relationships are built! FabSwapp is reinventing the sharing economy by leveraging the generous phenomenon of paying it forward style of bartering; it is completely free to view, list and request items among users. Version 1.5.2 offers a number of enhancements and bug fixes.

1Games today introduces 4Force Online 1.0, its new mobile game developed for iOS and Android devices. 4Force Online is a raid action game in which players in 4 camps hunt gigantic monsters in the Hell Gate and demon dungeon. The combat is focused on one of four groups, Trolls, Barbarians, Dwarfs and Knights, each with their own distinct characteristics. Featuring over 50 kinds of mythical monsters, various boss-level monsters appear depending on the level of difficulty.

VigStore has announced VigCal 1.2, a smart organizer suite developed for iOS/Watch OS/OSX. Perfect for busy individuals, business organizations, from school, or at home, VigCal is a great tool to manage appointments, tasks and notes with minimum time and cost. This app is designed specifically to help you manage day-to-day appointments, tasks and notes. It also supports you many skins as well as many options to view your data in the app, as well as show your data as list or folder view.