If Courtney Love were an app, she'd be one that's potent, durable, and endlessly fascinating. It's been almost 20 years since Hole's fearless leader--the blonde rocker in the baby doll dress, always strapped to a guitar--body surfed her way into our hearts across such hits as "Miss World," "Doll Parts," "Violet," "Celebrity Skin," and "Malibu." Although Love has always been a polarizing figure, there's no denying her legacy as a rock 'n' roll star who's endured tremendous loss, addiction, and media scrutiny.

Nobody's daughter, at home onstage.

2013 will see a second Summer of Love as Hole's frontwoman makes her way across the U.S. on a 21-date solo tour that'll find Love playing more intimate venues in tertiary markets to tide fans over until a new album is released next year. Download.com caught up with the singer just days prior to the June 20th kickoff to chat about the apps she'll be using on the road, her notorious Twitter feuds with Billy Corgan and Amanda Bynes, and weaning herself off of her latest addiction--Facebook.

Which apps will you be using the most while out on tour, this summer? Really? [laughs] I don't know. I mean, I'm supposed to do something for Style.com that's like an Instagram thi... [Read more]

Software company Micromat, maker of the popular TechTool Pro diagnostics and repair utility, has come out with a new version of the program. TechTool Pro 7 has been rewritten in 64-bit code, which among general enhancements to the software makes it possible to better test memory on modern Mac systems.

One of the key new features in TechTool Pro 7 is its new memory test routine, which is recommended for whenever a system is experiencing random crashes, or when you have installed new memory modules. While Apple's included hardware test suite is a robust option for testing memory, sometimes one test's approach may miss some error types, so it can be useful to have another on hand.

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ExploitShield launched in September 2012 (covered previously by Seth Rosenblatt) with an ambitious goal: to close the yawning security gap for zero-day threats, those nasty exploits that arise upon first notice of a security vulnerability in a browser or other application before developers can fix the hole. Today, the ExploitShield technology gained a lot more visibility as it was acquired by security-software publisher Malwarebytes, whose Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software has been a Top 10 product on Download.com for many years.

As a result of the purchase, Malwarebytes has released a new beta version of the software, now called Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit. It is almost exactly the same program as ExploitShield (with new rebranding from Malwarebytes), so definitely read Seth's original coverage for more information about the "vulnerability-agnostic" software.

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