Xcrypt is Nearly Done

Again, since nothing's new at AdAdapted, I'll share some of my spare-time programming ventures.

Xcrypt, my encryption software, is nearly finished (again). I'm hoping to push out the new version this weekend, and it has a load of new features that weren't in the original, my favorite of which being support for multi-core CPUs. Xcrypt can now utilize more cores and it allows the user to specify how many cores it can use. The interface for Xcrypt is also vastly improved, with better organization, presentation, and the ability to track any number of processes at a given time. In Xcrypt, every potentially time-intensive operation is timed and the time taken to do it is reported at the end of the process' lifetime. In the previous iteration, if a process started, it was the only one that could be recorded. Now, times can be reported for any number of processes as they're completed.

Xcrypt also handles its encryptions much more differently. Less burden is put on the user while more of it is put on the program itself. Xcrypt is a tool, and isn't the purpose of a tool to make our lives easier? So, Xcrypt is easier to use than ever.

If you have a need to encrypt any of your files, keep your eyes peeled for the new version of Xcrypt at for it here!

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