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07 Aug 2009, 2:47 am

Orwell wrote:
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update mechanism.
use Appfresh

there's also a widget but I forgot its name.


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13 Aug 2009, 9:43 pm

computerlove wrote:
Orwell wrote:
OS X
update mechanism.
use Appfresh

there's also a widget but I forgot its name.

Appfresh is buggy for me, and it doesn't work for all programs. There are several niche programs I use as a chess enthusiast that evidently are too obscure for them to care about, and they can't find the updates for Chromium. When it does work, it seems just to send me to a page in half of a web browser where it says "find the download link!"


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14 Aug 2009, 8:24 am

In honest terms Macs are still rich-kid toys. Only rich people, Photoshop Junkies and to a lesser extent modern hippies tripping on Steve Jobs are actually into them.

The mainstream is still using Windows. Working-Class families as well as anybody thats not some hippie tripping out on Steve Jobs and photoshop dude uses it

However why can't people ditch both OSX and Windows and find the live in Open-Source. Below is a link to salvation.

www.ubuntu.com