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tried it on 10.5.1 and leaked memory like a sieve. it consumed 1.5GB and brought my machine to it's knees.

This application is designed beautifully. And extremely useful. However at this point its probably the most poorly programmed app I've ever seen on OSX. It will literally take down my entire machine. If I open it up on OSX, i see my CPU go to 160% and eventually it crashes. But then pretty much everything is gone to hell (finder slows to a crawl) and I eventually have to reboot.

Whoever wrote this app is a fantastic designer, but a terrible programmer. I would love to see this app get polished up for version 1.0 as its one of my favorite shareware utilities.

I'm using 0.5.5 on Leopard 10.5.1

Other than this application being unusable, it's great....

It's designed so well... and the options and feature list are fantastic... but I just absolutely cannot use it.

As others have mentioned, this thing just completely takes over. My poor PowerBook G4 doesn't stand a chance, it just gets slaughtered.

I would love to use this application... I really would... I have a heck of a time keeping things up to date, and this looks like it'd do it beautifully and leave me feeling happy... Instead, I'm left unsatisfied, with a fan spinning so fast it sounds like it's eating my laptop, instead of cooling it off...

It's working great on 10.5.1 for me.

Since its still just a preview build, lets not be too hard on this app. I cant wait to see it stablize as its really a fantastic piece of software, even with its current problems.

this app just crashed my macbook pro.. couldn´t do anything for about 10 minutes.. an then the app crashes... but if..someday... this´ll work this would be the killerapp..

I agree with most others here... it isn't very useful as-is, but if it can deliver on all it promises, it will be a pretty amazing app.

lol its to iusethis as iScrobbler is to last.fm

The app works great for me and I am also running 10.5.1. It has bumped up to being one of my favourite apps currently being used.

Yes it leaks memory badly but it does work well. I am using 10.4.11 and it found loads of updates. If not it found web links for me to manually search through. It did 36 updates in a matter of half an hour without a problem. It would be nice if when it came to requiring an admin log in that it identified what program was being updated.

THE killer app for the Mac. Has revolutionized how I approach downloading updates and new programs. It's still rather buggy and the updates are sometime hit and miss, but if they can iron out these issues it's a real winner.

The CPU/Memory hogging on Leopard is now fixed.

The problem only appeared, when a connection to one of the Update-Servers got dropped for whatever Reason (e.G. bad Internet Connection or a Server that was temporarily down.)

what a mess!!! definitely Alpha.

replaced my 1PasswdIM.bundle with 1Password app!!! changed Comic Life-Deluxe to Comic Life...doesn't respect Beta versions and just wrong 50% of the times. use it on your own risk.

P.S: crashing non stop.

I'm highly skeptical that the number of users of this software is as stated! Would iusethis.com really artificially inflate the popularity of its own product so it appears more popular??? At any rate, I really enjoy the iusethis website for what it is but the currency of its version numbers is not one of its strengths!

Hi Simonjm, AppFresh is not an application made by Marcus or me, but by the people at Metaquark. AppFresh just use iusethis data to track app updates. It also let users manage their iusethis account, meaning that almost all AppFresh users registers AppFresh as an app that they use. In relations to all mac-users, AppFresh's user numbers are artificially high, but for the mac-users that use iusethis, I would say that it is quite accurate.

On how we handle versions; it is one of our greatest challenges, and something that we will find a better solution to.

zxspectrum: We're aware of that. That's why we're calling it a development preview and only let you opt-in on automatically replacing software. Software naming, packaging and version numbering is something where only very few common practices exist and correctly dealing with everything that floats around is not an easy task.

simonjm: Arne already correctly stated the relationship between AppFresh and iusethis. It's true that we let users register AppFresh as used with their iusethis account as soon as they enter their account information (an optional step). This doesn't lead to wrong data, since the user is obviously using AppFresh, but it puts AppFresh in a position where you can't compare its use count to other apps' use counts. Also, we have great interest in up-to-date version information on iusethis too, and we're working with Arne and Marcus to improve the situation. For example, you can use the version reporter tool in AppFresh to report a more recent version (which is not directly inserted, though, to prevent fraudulent submissions).

System fault BOOM CRASH REBOOT on the last version. First time in a very, very long time that I had to reboot for something other than updating system files.

@geotaylor: We're not aware of any occasion where AppFresh would crash the whole system. Could you please email us at support@metaquark.de and describe what was going on in more detail? If you have a crash log or anything else that's more precise than BOOM CRASH REBOOT, please also attach it.

Great job on the 0.6 update - the performance and stability both took a major step forward with this new release! I've been using AppFresh for about six months now and find it to be an indispensable tool for keeping track of the 180 (and growing) applications in my Mac arsenal. Many thanks!

Currently, there is an issue related to Microsoft AutoUpdate 2 (shipped wit MS Office 2008) that, if installed, keeps AppFresh from working properly. If you have that installed and AppFresh keeps crashing, please try ‘defaults write de.metaquark.appfresh IUEnableMicrosoftAutoUpdate FALSE’ in your console and start AppFresh. A fix will be released soon.