DigitalOutbox » 10.6 http://www.digitaloutbox.com Weekly Podcast on Computing, Gadgets, Gaming with a British accent Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:31:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 AppZapper 2 http://www.digitaloutbox.com/2010/01/18/appzapper-2/ http://www.digitaloutbox.com/2010/01/18/appzapper-2/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:18:08 +0000 Henry http://www.digitaloutbox.com/?p=692
Appzapper 2 is my pick this week and is an uninstaller application for Mac OS X 10.6, with a number of extra features that make it well worth a look.
There are a number of other uninstallers available for OS X. I’ve been using the excellent AppCleaner on my mac for some time now, and when such a good utility is available for free why would anyone buy Appzapper at $12.95 ?
Appzapper is a lovely looking app, with a simple switch to toggle between the basic initial view to the main view.

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It not only shows all your installed applications, but has options to show only those apps that haven’t been used for a selected time period. Very handy when you’re trying to decide if you should keep an app or just zap it with the extremely satisfying sound effect. In addition to applications, Appzapper also tracks widgets, preference panes and plugins.

For me though, the great new feature in version 2 is the “My Apps…” window.

This is where you can drag apps onto the window, click the image and enter the licence info on the back. It would be great if you could import this info from a file as it can be a bit tedious to go through all your apps manually, and I did have some issues with some strange input methods for the date field, but these are minor gripes and ‘My Apps’ is an unexpected but welcome addition.

All in all it’s a great little utility.

Appzapper 2 is a free upgrade from version 1 and the Appzapper website is http://www.appzapper.com,

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