MacProgramGuide

Name: MacProgramGuide
Rating: 4.45 (5 reviews)

1.0

02 October 2012

Download television listings for the US and Canada.

Overview

MacProgramGuide is a client to download television listings for the US and Canada. Looking for a program guide for your Mac Based Home Theater, well look no further. MacProgramGuide harnesses the power of Web Services and the Internet to provide program schedules, episode, cast and crew information.

MacProgramGuide provides search capabilities to allow you to find out when your favorite shows or movies are on. Best of all, MacProgramGuide is free, however MacProgramGuide requires a Schedules Direct Account available here:

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/

The cost of the service is $25 per year. A 7 day free trial is available. Detailed instructions are included with the software download. When signing up for the Schedules Direct Service please remember to check MacProgramGuide"

NOTE: It may take up to 1 hour for a new account to become active.

What's new in MacProgramGuide

Version 1.0:

Minor bug fixes.
Removed expiration date.

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I don't understand paying for a service like this, when it is not only available free from tvguide.com, but public TV stations all across the country provide a free version that is actually broadcast over the air, as well. I can't see network and local TV stations *not* wanting their information in the viewers' hands. If someone could create a widget or unobtrusive program that would cull one of these *free* sources to populate a database and provide useful searching, it would be wonderful... and I'm assuming the public service will never suddenly become a fee based system.

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Version 0.57

Chrischram

16 November 2013

The current version of this app runs under Mavericks, but is less stable than it was under previous versions of OS X. It's overdue for an update.

Version 1.0

Jimw

16 September 2011

This was pointed out earlier but I would like to update the fact that while the app is free, its use is not. In order to use the app you are required to subscribe to a service that currently costs $25/yr

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Version 0.81

2 answer(s)

umaromc

16 September 2011

http://titantv.com/ ^Boom! Free and better looking!

Jimw

03 November 2011

Because you list it as free and you don't see the $25 fee unless you click on the "more" button. Your product seems to be nothing more than a GUI to a subscription service. If you had integrity you would list it as a $25 monthly charge instead of Free or have the fee indicated in the first couple of lines of the description. People deserve integrity and that dictates the need to be up front about the fee instead of require them to click on the "more" link to find out. That is why I keep bringing it up - because you are not up front about it, and so potential users will know from the beginning that this product is fee based and not free - so they can make an informed decision without downloading the product or clicking on a link!

This version crashes immediately upon launch. I have notified the developer. Can't revert to the earlier version because it has expired.

Version 0.73

Erm, is anyone else getting a "Version Expired" message when starting MacProgramGuide? I mean there is no new version out or anything, I followed the link that came with the popup.

Version 0.72

New version crashes on launch for me. Deleted all files from 0.63 and it still crashes at launch.

Version 0.70

1 answer(s)

Cmacsw

01 October 2009

Douglas: Crashing has been reported on some systems, I will has an update available shortly, You can contact me via the website for a short term fix.

Version 0.70

There is no reason I can fathom for not supporting earlier OSX systems as in previous releases of your app. There are many reasons why some of us cannot "upgrade" to Leopard yet if at all. Stop relegating your products like this. Thank you.

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Version 0.60

3 answer(s)

David-Grant

24 June 2008

I agree. I've had to stick with an older version because I haven't upgraded to Leopard. Not a happy camper.

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Version 0.62

Chas-m

23 September 2008

Don't assume the developer has malicious intent in excluding older OSes. Sometimes, the tools used to compile the code force older versions to be excluded, sometimes the features leveraged from the OS (like Core Animation) *require* that you make something Leopard-only (as the feature doesn't exist in Tiger!). By all means, petition the developer for support of recent OS versions -- just don't always assume its an oversight, or in their power to fix.

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Version 0.63

David-Grant

23 September 2008

I wasn't suggesting malice on the part of the developer, only that he may not have fully realized how many of his users have not upgraded to 10.5. I would like to be able to take advantage of the new features w/o having to upgrade to 10.5. I'm not a developer myself, so my comments are thus necessarily somewhat uninformed, but I don't see what Leopard-specific features an essentially text-based program like MacProgramGuide _must_ use.

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Version 0.63

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Version 0.57

On September 13, the cost from the schedules direct service was lowered from $15 for 3 months to $15 for 6 months.

Version 0.56

I have used MacProgramGuide since the start, and I find it to be infinitely more useful than the online sites. That said, nobody likes to pay for something that was previously free. I signed up for the first quarter of service from schedulesdirect with the hope that the price would drop if they got enough subscriptions. (I believe schedulesdirect is shooting for a price of $20/year if this thing catches on. That's not too bad.) If the second quarter price remains at $15, I'm afraid I'll have to look elsewhere for my TV listings. Right now I find both Zap2it and TitanTV to be useless.

Version 0.56

Props to this guy. I've been using this program for months. I can't stand going to the online TV listing sites since most of them are overly fancy by this point. Back when it was just HTML it was okay. Now? They suck. Plus I frequently need to reset my location since that gets trashed for some reason. I also don't use Dashboard and never found a good widget anyway. yes, yes, there are widgets. None I liked. This program I like. It launches fast, it displays what I want to see, it's stable, and it works well. It's no frills, but it's TV listings. I want no frills. And the fact that he stepped up and rewrote the thing to use a different service after zap2it discontinued their free service was top notch. I'm sure many other people would've just killed the app in some sort of silly protest about information being free. But this is the real world, and I still need my TV. $15 every three months ain't great (but, again it's paying to the service, not the programmer), but it also isn't the end of the world. I'm sure if a viable free service shows up again that he'd consider rewriting to support that one instead. This guy deserves support for keeping things going after zap2it split. It's a good app, to boot.

Version 0.55

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