{"id":25871,"date":"2019-07-08T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25871"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:59:39","slug":"macupdater-1-4-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/08\/macupdater-1-4-15\/","title":{"rendered":"MacUpdater 1.4.15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corecode.io\/index_news.html\">CoreCode<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/corecode_io\/status\/1138838479121584129\">tweet<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/z31r4m\/status\/1148036382109028352\">Leo<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.corecode.io\/index_news.html\"><p>While our users tell us that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corecode.io\/macupdater\/index.html\" title=\"MacUpdater\">MacUpdater<\/a>  is the best app they have found in years, Apple rejected it from inclusion into the Mac App Store, because it is not &lsquo;useful enough&rsquo;. Meanwhile, Apple continues to distribute dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corecode.io\/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html\">apps that are malware, or are from known Malware vendors<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I had not heard of this app, perhaps because it&rsquo;s not listed on MacUpdate, either. (Besides the similar name, it competes with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/desktop\">Desktop product<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n<p>It seems genuinely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corecode.io\/macupdater\/index.html\">useful<\/a>, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.corecode.io\/macupdater\/index.html\"><p>Nothing could be easier than finding out which of your apps are out-of-date with MacUpdater. Just launch it and let it scan your apps. You&rsquo;ll see a list of all your apps, and apps with updates are listed in red. There are filter-options to display just outdated apps or ignore apps from being updated. The MacUpdater database has information about the latest versions of more than 30.000&nbsp;apps (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corecode.io\/macupdater\/faq.html#VERSIONINFO\">FAQ<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think there used to be another app that did this, e.g. by polling Sparkle feeds, but I haven&rsquo;t heard about it in a long time.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymac.com\/2018\/09\/macupdater-review\/\">Mark Sealey<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CoreCode (tweet, via Leo): While our users tell us that MacUpdater is the best app they have found in years, Apple rejected it from inclusion into the Mac App Store, because it is not &lsquo;useful enough&rsquo;. Meanwhile, Apple continues to distribute dozens of apps that are malware, or are from known Malware vendors! 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