USB Extension is a sporty little click-saving application that’s designed to detect a removable device when you connect it to your system, and automatically create a shortcut to it on your desktop. Now you don’t need to go to Windows File Explorer and sift through all the other USB devices, network drives, CD-ROMs or flash cards in order to find the right one. Simply plug in a portable device and click its newly created desktop shortcut to see its contents without having to click or navigate anywhere else. Removing the USB drive automatically removes its shortcut as well. While Windows has its own AutoPlay feature that asks you what you want to do each time a USB drive is plugged in, and that can also be set to just automatically open it in Windows Explorer each time, many of us set it to do nothing, and even some who have set it to open the drive automatically might close its Explorer window at some point, and need to access it again while it is still plugged in. USB Extension serves all such users equally well. After installing, give the app a test run by plugging in a USB drive, and a shortcut for it will immediately appear on your desktop. When you’re done, you need only remove the USB drive (preferably the proper way rather than just pulling it out, but not necessarily), and its shortcut will be removed automatically. Plugging in multiple devices won’t effect the application’s performance either; it will place a shortcut on the desktop for each of them. Pretty comfortable, isn’t it? This is how things should be in the first place. If a USB drive’s shortcut fails to remove itself after you pull the drive out, you can simply right-click USB Extension’s system tray icon and select ‘Delete invalid shortcuts’ from there. This will remove any past drive shortcuts that failed to get removed automatically. USB Extension does come with a settings panel but for some inexplicable reason, it isn’t accessible from the tray icon’s context menu, or even a desktop shortcut. Instead, you need to launch ‘Settings’ from the app’s Start Menu (or Start Screen) entries to open it. From the ‘Show options’ section, you can select or deselect the types of removable drives that the app should create shortcuts for. By default, the application makes shortcuts for USB devices only, but you can also enable it for CD-ROMs and network drives. The ‘Show method’ section lets you switch between ‘Always’ and ‘On mount’; the latter of these is useful for CD -ROM drives or USB card readers etc, and should show an icon for them only if a disc or card is loaded in the drive. If you’d prefer an uncluttered system tray, you can disable the app’s tray icon. USB Extension gets full points for being fast, easy and uncomplicated. The app is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Download USB Extension

Dashlane is one of the most popular password managers and security vaults for sensitive information that you enter in your browser. The service and its apps work with your browsers to save and auto-fill important information, eliminating your dependence on your browser’s own password manager and auto-fill feature, which isn’t the most secure place for important data and doesn’t work across different browsers. Dashlane updated both its Mac and PC apps a while back, as well as its Android app. Both Mac and PC apps have had a design overhaul as well as the addition of a ‘Security dashboard’ that finds security loopholes or possible flaws on your system and tells you how to fix them. It’s also adds 2-factor authentication via Google Authenticator. The Android app has also received two-factor authentication and in addition, now offers an in-app browser that you can sign into easily with the account information you’ve saved in Dashlane, and supports both portrait and landscape orientation.

The security dashboard will tell you what security problems currently exist in your system with a solution and a ‘Replace now’ button to quickly rectify them. It will detect weak passwords, passwords that have been in use too long, any information that isn’t stored securely, and email addresses stored in your browsers, among other things. The data, once rectified or removed through the app, cannot be recovered. Needless to say, this information will be pulled only from the browsers that Dashlane is connected to.

From Dashlane’s settings, you can now enable two-factor authentication, provided you have a smartphone with the Google Authenticator app (available free of cost for both iOS and Android) installed on it. To set up two-factor authentication, go to the app’s settings and under the ‘Security’ tab, enable Google Authenticator. Scan the QR code that it gives you using the Google Authenticator app on your smartphone, and enter the resulting code into the text field to complete the two-factor authentication setup. From now onward, you will need to enter a code from your Google Authenticator app to sign in to Dashlane from any computer.

The Android app now has a browser, which you can access from the navigation drawer. It loads Google by default, though you can use it for pretty much anything, like any regular mobile browser. You’re logged in automatically when the app detects a login page that you have login information saved for.

 

Besides this, tablets will be pleased to know that the app supports both portrait and landscape orientation.

To sum it up, this update brings some major security features as well as interface improvements to the already impressive service, making it even more useful for users to keep their sensitive information safe and secure.

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