So far, I'm really liking what this App does. It makes life more consolidated on the software update front, and for me this is worth $20 year.
A couple of things I would really like to see:
1) The ability to shift-click or command click multiple applications in the list so that I can do stuff to more than one entry at a time. For example, I want to be able to select 5 apps at a time and do things like download and install only those, but more importantly, I really want to be able to select multiple apps and say "don't check for updates". To not be able to do this is tedious and frustrating.
2) It would be great to have the option to have a column just like "Name", "Installed version" etc that more clearly told you if the the available update/upgrade is taking you to an beta (or even alpha) version of the new software. That way you could opt to only update to stable versions, if that's what you wanted.
3) Lastly-- and this may be a long shot, only useful to some people-- it would be great to be able to filter more than with just the little searchbox in the upper right corner. What if I want to see not only all shareware, but I also want to see which ones are updates and which are upgrades? (Also, I'm not really sold on the current filter. I just tried filtering for "Shareware," which I can see I have about 25 entries for, and when I did the search, it came up with 0 entries... uh...)
This is a great product with no other equal that I know of. Keep working on it!
--what exactly does "Set version to current" do?
--if you set version to current, and you realize you messed up, how do you undo that?
-- if you opt to archive your old version of an app before installing, and you end up not wanting to keep the newer version, doesn't it really come down to an app-by-app basis as to whether or not you can truly roll back? It's not really as easy as throw out the new app and install the old one is it, especially if that developer hasn't provided an "uninstall" feature, right?
Question I can't solve: if I select an application and choose "don't check for updates"-- that's a great feature. But what if I change my mind? How do I get an application "back" on the list?
Uh... ok. I missed the obvious one. I was looking under the "outdated" tab, where the app I didn't want had disappeared. All I needed to do was go back to the "All" tab...
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MacUpdate Desktop
10david10 reviewed on 24 Mar 2011
A couple of things I would really like to see:
1) The ability to shift-click or command click multiple applications in the list so that I can do stuff to more than one entry at a time. For example, I want to be able to select 5 apps at a time and do things like download and install only those, but more importantly, I really want to be able to select multiple apps and say "don't check for updates". To not be able to do this is tedious and frustrating.
2) It would be great to have the option to have a column just like "Name", "Installed version" etc that more clearly told you if the the available update/upgrade is taking you to an beta (or even alpha) version of the new software. That way you could opt to only update to stable versions, if that's what you wanted.
3) Lastly-- and this may be a long shot, only useful to some people-- it would be great to be able to filter more than with just the little searchbox in the upper right corner. What if I want to see not only all shareware, but I also want to see which ones are updates and which are upgrades? (Also, I'm not really sold on the current filter. I just tried filtering for "Shareware," which I can see I have about 25 entries for, and when I did the search, it came up with 0 entries... uh...)
This is a great product with no other equal that I know of. Keep working on it!
MacUpdate Desktop
--what exactly does "Set version to current" do?
--if you set version to current, and you realize you messed up, how do you undo that?
-- if you opt to archive your old version of an app before installing, and you end up not wanting to keep the newer version, doesn't it really come down to an app-by-app basis as to whether or not you can truly roll back? It's not really as easy as throw out the new app and install the old one is it, especially if that developer hasn't provided an "uninstall" feature, right?
Thanks in advance,
David
MacUpdate Desktop
So far, I'm really liking this app, by the way.
Thanks!
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