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Econ Technologies (www.econtechnologies.com) has released ChronoSync 4.7.4 for macOS. It’s a sync, backup, and bootable back-up app.

ChronoSync can back up and sync to anything you can connect to a Mac: external drives, thumb drives, NAS drives, remote Macs, PC’s and cloud services. Version 4.7.4 offers performance and efficiency improvements, including fixes for a handful of bugs.

ChronoSync works with macOS 10.8 and higher. A demo is available for download; registration is $49.99.

Apple has released the fifth developer beta of macOS 10.12.4. It can be be downloaded from the Apple Developer Center.

macOS Sierra 10.12.4 brings iOS’s Night Shift mode to the Mac, allowing users to cut down on blue light exposure. It also includes Shanghainese dictation support, cricket scores for Siri, and PDFKit improvements.

App Camp For Girls, a non-profit organization aimed at correcting the gender imbalance in the software industry, has opened 2017 registration for its summer program that teaches girls how to make mobile apps in one week. This year, the aspiring developers will use Apple’s new educational tool, Swift Playgrounds, a new app for iPad that teaches Swift code in a fun and interactive way.