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Bzzt! Image Editor Pro is now available to all Pro Club members.

The pro edition includes a watermarking tool that can apply your image watermark to entire folders full of photos at once. You can customize the watermark location, repetition, and opacity.

Bzzt! Pro will also update automatically, so you’ll no longer need to visit SingularLabs whenever a new version becomes available.

Pro Club members can download Bzzt! Image Editor Pro from the Download Hub.

We’ve just released version 1.2 of Bzzt! Image Editor, our app that quickly batch resizes, rotates, converts, and compresses image files. This version adds several new localisations and makes numerous refinements throughout the program.

• Performance improvements and memory leak fixes
• Lots of user interface refinements
• Improved progress bar accuracy when processing multiple files
• Added Dutch, Swedish, and French translations
• Updated the Greek and Russian translations

The latest version can be downloaded from the Bzzt! Image Editor product page.

If you’re a Pro Club member, later this week we’ll be releasing a Pro version of Bzzt! Image Editor with automatic updating and a bulk image watermarking feature.

One of System Ninja‘s lesser known features lets you scan a directory in search of empty folders. Excessive folders don’t cause any performance degradation or take up any space, but having thousands of unnecessary folders scattered across your system can become annoying.

It’s unlikely you will want to scan an entire hard drive for empty folder, so first you should configure System Ninja to scan directories instead of drives. Click on the arrow on the right-hand side of the ‘Scan For Junk‘ button and select Scan Folder.

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System Ninja 3.2 is now available! This version includes a brand new interface and scanning options for System Ninja Pro, plus a handful of bug fixes and minor user interface improvements.

System Ninja 3.2 contains the following changes:

• Added new quick and comprehensive scan options [PRO]
• Redesigned the One-Click scanning interface [PRO]
• The progress bar now shows a marquee animation when the scan time cannot be predicted
• Improved support for Firefox Quantum
• You can now see whether you’re using the Free or Pro edition in the title bar
• Fixed a plugin API bug that could cause the registry cleaner plugin or System Ninja Pro to crash

We recognize that all of the cool new stuff in System Ninja 3.2 is for our Pro Club members, but free users should still download the update to receive the various bug fixes.

You can download the latest version from the official System Ninja product page.
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Remembr 0.7 is now available! This version includes a handful of fixes and improvements for our non-English-speaking users, and brings a significant redesign of the user interface.

The existing design was starting to look a little dated, especially on Windows 10 in which Microsoft have put greater emphasis on whitespace. The new design is both cleaner and lighter. We’ve also changed the colour scheme to match SingularLabs’ brand colors of orange, charcoal and light gray.

Remembr 0.7 includes the following changes:

• Redesigned the user interface
• Added automatic language detection
• Fixed several display issues for our non-English-speaking users
• Updated Russian localization

You can download the latest version from the Remembr product page.

Several months ago we opened a survey to gather feedback on our products and to help make a few decisions. I’d like to share the results of that survey with you and respond to a handful of the comments made.

Question 1: Should we offer an installer for CCEnhancer?

The result of this first question came as a bit of a surprise. Only one person had ever suggested offering an install-able edition CCEnhancer, so we assumed there was very little demand for such a thing. Following this result, we will be offering an installer with all future CCEnhancer releases.

Question 2: Should System Ninja clean beta versions of web browsers?

Neither option was able to attain a majority of votes, so we’re going to maintain the status quo. System Ninja will only clean stable versions of web browsers, but continue to allow users to manually add beta versions with the functions available under Options → Scan Inclusions.

Question 3: Do you think JavaRa still has value and that development should re-commence?

No surprises here. JavaRa has been deprecated for a couple of years now and the current JRE installer seems to be doing a solid job removing old versions. Development will not re-commence.

General Feedback

There were two topics raised several time in the general feedback section that I’d like to address.

Offer lifetime licenses
This won’t happen. Offering free support and updates into perpetuity is not a sustainable business model. Our subscription model provides us with a consistent flow of revenue so we can continue to invest in product improvements and sustain our support efforts.

Bring back System Ninja Portable
The security improvements in Windows 10 made it necessary to unblock portable executable files or programs contained in .zip files. We tried providing instructions, but a substantial number of users didn’t read or understand them and this became a significant support burden. We made the decision to only offer portable System Ninja to Pro Club members.

Free users can still roll their own portable System Ninja edition by copying all of the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\System Ninja to a new folder and deleting the uninstaller’s executables.

System Ninja 3.1.9 is a minor maintenance release that includes a small number of bug fixes, feature improvements and localization updates.

The changes in this version are listed below:

• Added back button to DuplicateFinder options page.
• DuplicateFinder MD5 check is no longer case sensitive.
• Updated Spanish and Russian localizations.
• The list of running processes can now be saved to a text file.
• The “save to text” feature now supports saving more than three columns.
• Detection of obsolete Google Chrome versions has been removed*.
• Small GUI tweaks

You can download System Ninja from its usual page. Pro Club members will receive this update automatically next time System Ninja is run.

A misleading error message was being shown to a small subset of users when they used CCEnhancer 4.5. This minor release fixes this issue and also updates the Russian and Greek localizations.

The update is available from the CCEnhancer download page.

CCEnhancer 4.5 is CCEnhancer’s first significant update in (almost exactly) three years. We’ve updated the user interface, fixed lots of bugs, added some handy features, and performed some necessary security hardening.

• Updated the program icon
• All downloads now performed securely over HTTPS*
• Added auto-detection of language on first run
• Improved the error messages when a download issue occurs
• The ad now opens System Ninja if it’s already installed
• Added an update check mechanism for the program
• Added duplicate entry detection to the winapp2.ini debug tool
• “Delete Custom Rules” tool now provides feedback when successful
• The “Download” button color now matches CCleaner™

The latest version of CCEnhancer can be downloaded from its usual download page.

System Requirements Changes

CCEnhancer now requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or newer (instead of 3.5) to be installed. This change is to maintain consistency with other SingularLabs products.

*Users running outdated operating systems that don’t support Server Name Indication (SNI), such as Windows XP, may need to use the ‘Use alternative download URL‘ option from the Advanced menu.