AppFresh
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.
AppFresh not only gets update information from iusethis.com. If you have an user profile at iusethis.com you can manage it from within AppFresh and control which applications appear in your profile, even automatically. We can only recommend you sign up, it's free and lets you see how many users use a certain application. In AppFresh, the full iusethis.com application page with comments and links to similar apps is always just a click away.
AppFresh can capture the installed version of an application along with your preferences and application data and store it in a safe place. This way, you're covered in case you decide you liked the last version of an application better. Create as many snapshots as you want to make sure you don't lose anything.
AppFresh is currently work in progress, and we're not even calling it a beta. Make sure to check our development blog regularly. You are welcome to leave your feedback or suggestions for improvements there.
Tags: update , management , applications , software , system
Opinions:
It looks very cool !
But there is a OOPPS for me : I cannot use AppFresh with iUSETHis because of an error : IUseThis Credential invalid. (connection data are correct, of course !)
Don't know if the problem come from IUSeThis or AppFresh...
This program has tons of promise, but I still prefer the simple "Application Update" widget. AU isn't as feature rich but it's bulletproof. I'll be back to check on AppFresh soon as I'm sure it's on its way to being a solid app..
Very great app. The only issue I got with it is about Apple's softwares. Many shows users count, but with an "Add" button. Some others doesn't even display users counter.
First let me say I find your program very promising. But I encountered a problem with the Big Bang Board Games included with my MacBook: even when I group the individual applications and change the iUseThis identifier to "Big Bang Board Games" the group or individual programs show as "Not listed on iusethis.com".
Hmmm... ClamXav found Exploit.URLSpoof.gen in ~/Libary/Application Support/AppFresh/PersistentStore.sqlite on my system.
Every time I scan the applications, it finds another copy of front-row. Also, some applications like DVD Player and iPhoto show how many people use it, but I only have the option to "add" the application, even though I've registered them to my profile.
Great and invaluable app, but still got some bugs to work out. Keep on working on developers!
@hbokh please update to 0.7, this problem has been fixed
Updates don't work anymore. Something is downloaded somewhere, but nothing really happens at all...
dbreunig, please update to AppFresh 0.6.3, which fixes this problem. You can also recover your Desktop contents from the Trash.
Why does it delete my ENTIRE desktop when it's done installing?
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