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Seems to be system tools day. While surfing the web I found a cool app i wished to have found earlier. AppFresh scans your installed programs for updates and offers to download an install them right out of AppFresh.

Caution: As AppFresh is only available as preview version it runs not complete without problems, e.g. it crashed during the update of EclipseRating:

Mac OS X provides several methods to install applications. Simple apps get installed by copying the application file from the disk image to the desired folder. Others are distributed as PKG files whick are more powerful than just simply copy the app file to the applications folder, e.g. the can automatically install files into the system or user’s library. The complete installation process of those PKG files are logged by OS X in so called “receipts”. However OS X lacks the ability to use these receipts for uninstallation.To fill this gap Nicolas Zinovieff developed a small program called DesInstaller. And he did a good job. Experiments with packages of Subversion, MacGPG and NeoOffice worked without any problems.Rating: