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If, like me, you keep a lot of apps on your Mac, MacUpdate Desktop is an app you won't regret buying.Solution home 3rd Party App Developers Promoting Your App on MacUpdate

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There's a free alternative, CNET Tech Tracker but it's much less flexible and powerful and, on my system at least, produces too many 'false positives'-reports that apps need updating when in fact I've got the current version.

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But it works well enough for me to spend twenty bucks a year on it, knowing that it keeps almost all the apps on my Mac up to date for me. Inevitably, it doesn't find updates for some applications because the vendor doesn't list it on the website.

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It sometimes downloads an update but then can't install it, so you have to update it manually. It can't install updates from the App Store, which isn't a major inconvenience because the App Store handles updates by itself.

You can fine-tune this option so that the app sends you an e-mail when an app on your watch list gets updated, so you don't have to wait for the update until MacUpdate Desktop runs one of its regular checks for updates-which it does by default once every week. But you might prefer the option to create one or more 'watch lists' of apps that you want the program to update for you. I use MacUpdate with its default settings, which makes it check for updates to every app on my disk. This is a minor annoyance that afflicts only a very few applications. This typically happens if the application's version number is formatted in a different way from the version number in 's database, for example, if one number includes a build number and the other doesn't. I also sometimes need to use this menu to tell MacUpdate Desktop that an application is up to date when-as sometimes happens-MacUpdate thinks you have an earlier version. These options let you fine-tune MacUpdate Desktop's handling of any individual application, which you'll need to do if, for example, you don't want to buy the new version of a specific app and you want MacUpdate Desktop to stop reminding you that the new version exists. A 'Download and Install' button in the lower pane does exactly what the button says it does.Īlternatively, you can Ctrl-click the app in the list in the top pane and select various options from a menu. The right-hand side has two panes, the top one listing applications, the bottom one with details from the MacUpdate Desktop web site about the app selected in the top pane. Interface and Interaction The app's interface has a left-hand sidebar with separate icons that let you select applications, widgets, screen savers, preference panes, and plug-ins. Click on its list of updated apps, and MacUpdate Desktop downloads and-for most but not all apps-installs the update for you. At regular intervals the app scans your disk for apps, widgets, preference panes, screen savers, and plug-ins, and alerts you to any available updates-and it optionally uses OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion's notifications area in addition to its own interface. Anyone can visit and search, download, and install the latest version of an app, but the MacUpdate Desktop app does the whole job automatically, if you pay an annual $20 subscription. How it Works MacUpdate Desktop works with, a website that tracks updates of thousands of Mac apps.

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