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This is now known as eBioX
http://www.ebioinformatics.org/ebiox/

Not many features yet, but looks promising. Needs a way to do easier mass editing of ID3 tags and rename files; in the meantime, I'm using this for freedb lookup and jTagger for tagging and renaming.

freedb lookups stopped working again :( ... anyone know of a good alternative to musorg?

i wish the ui was a little bit more user friendly and that the freedb lookups worked a bit better, but at least it helps..

freedb lookups working again on new version 0.3 ... finally!! :)

How does this compare to AppZapper, uApp in terms of effectiveness at removing associated files?

Looks like the interaction is the inverse of AppZapper, as suggested in the description. It's a good point -- it'd be even cooler if it used AppZapper if you had it installed already.

I like it. I agree that it needs to show the app's icon, and will add that the window should be expanded to show all the files being deleted. You're deleting my stuff, after all! At least tell me which stuff it is. I don't think hiding that information should even be an option.

Also, sometimes the path gets trimmed off.

Also, no scrollbar.

Good start though.

brian: You can expand the window to show a list of files, just click the small arrow.

I know, sorry. I was talking about defaults.

The only major thing preventing me from installing this is the lack of distinguishing between a genuine uninstall and a Sparkle-based updating event, where the previous version of a given app is sent to the trash (as noted in the documentation).

The only thing I can think of is some kind of check for the presence of Sparkle in the app, but I wouldn't know how to implement that, or if that's even possible.

rampancy: Checking for the existence of Sparkle in the app, as a method to detect auto-updated apps, would at the same time prevent AppTrap from actually removing those apps when you want to. This is a hard problem to solve, but it should be possible. All ideas are welcome.

If the app has been updated with Sparkle, then surely there should be 1) the old version in the trash 2) the new version where the old one used to be? I wonder if that's an easy enough check to make programatically?

I'm surprised how few people know this, but you can drag AppZapper to your Finder toolbar. When you want to delete an application you can simply drag the application onto the AppZapper icon in the toolbar and AppZapper will automatically open and show you the files to be deleted. You simply click Zap! and then close the application. This way there is only one more step than AppTrap. Granted, AppTrap is free and AppZapper is not, so I'm hoping AppTrap catches on. Nothing beats good competition!

I think Matt has the right idea, actually. It might make the process slower actually, but Matt's solution sounds to me like it's the most simple one to implement (compared to any Sparkle-related stuff I might have suggested).

@rickyb: I delete almost everything using Apple+Backspace, so the AppZapper icon solution is not good enough. It also requires closing down after you zap, so is a lot more of an interruption.

@rampancy: Yay me!

I love this one! Thanks a lot! Sometimes I find myself deleting apps just for fun ;-)

Just checked their website today. It appears to be gone.

We're having DNS problems so the website address without "www" doesn't work at the moment. Just add "www" to the address and it'll work. I've edited the links in this entry.

I can attest to it working fine in Leopard. At least in my experience. :)