in finessing the new background update feature, you brought a back the elegance of macupdate from pre 5.0.5 but kept the feature - and instead allowed your customer to choose the implementation of the background update.
from my perspective, it puts macupdate back into the top of my toolbox - i get the benefits of the features, along with the choice to configure them as i need to.
accordingly, i'm revising the rating i posted after the 5.05 release to better reflect MU's place on my Mac.
This kind of app is by nature a byzantine undertaking to write.
Not all publishers deliver their apps the same way, and an app like this has to be something like the "VLC of installers" in terms of knowing as many apps and methods as possible.
That being said, after a day's worth of rough start - I'm finally up to date.
I think this is a good app. It's a bit young - but well worth the price if like me - you get busy with work and can't keep up with the latest incremental updates.
A very, very welcome feature would be some method of prioritizing the update downloads instead of the all-at-once model.
I realize that most of the time this only affects new installs, but some sort of preference that allows "Update apps in groups of x" or "If an app can't be updated mark to skip and move on" would be most welcome. My net connection got so saturated a couple of times that every update started failing one by one.
Or - when the list of updates is presented, a method to select/deselect individual or multiple updates [Update selected apps] and and options to Update/Cancel/Resume via Contextual Menu and/or buttons would be nice too.
In my case, I had something like 50 updates needed and it overwhelmed the app. Oftentimes, it was impossible to tell until I'd let the app do its thing. A number of apps wouldn't update until I deleted the original app manually, and it took at least 10 times running MacUpate before I got everything working.
And - some apps - especially games - installed Trials on top of purchased games - that somehow reverted the games back to trials.
BUT - that being said - it's off to a great start, and I'm looking forward to it getting better and better.
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Rcarlton reviewed on 08 Nov 2010
in finessing the new background update feature, you brought a back the elegance of macupdate from pre 5.0.5 but kept the feature - and instead allowed your customer to choose the implementation of the background update.
from my perspective, it puts macupdate back into the top of my toolbox - i get the benefits of the features, along with the choice to configure them as i need to.
accordingly, i'm revising the rating i posted after the 5.05 release to better reflect MU's place on my Mac.
thank you very much!
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MacUpdate Desktop
Not all publishers deliver their apps the same way, and an app like this has to be something like the "VLC of installers" in terms of knowing as many apps and methods as possible.
That being said, after a day's worth of rough start - I'm finally up to date.
I think this is a good app. It's a bit young - but well worth the price if like me - you get busy with work and can't keep up with the latest incremental updates.
A very, very welcome feature would be some method of prioritizing the update downloads instead of the all-at-once model.
I realize that most of the time this only affects new installs, but some sort of preference that allows "Update apps in groups of x" or "If an app can't be updated mark to skip and move on" would be most welcome. My net connection got so saturated a couple of times that every update started failing one by one.
Or - when the list of updates is presented, a method to select/deselect individual or multiple updates [Update selected apps] and and options to Update/Cancel/Resume via Contextual Menu and/or buttons would be nice too.
In my case, I had something like 50 updates needed and it overwhelmed the app. Oftentimes, it was impossible to tell until I'd let the app do its thing. A number of apps wouldn't update until I deleted the original app manually, and it took at least 10 times running MacUpate before I got everything working.
And - some apps - especially games - installed Trials on top of purchased games - that somehow reverted the games back to trials.
BUT - that being said - it's off to a great start, and I'm looking forward to it getting better and better.