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AppTrap
AppTrap is free, open source, and installed as a system preference pane.
AppTrap is free, open source, and installed as a system preference pane.
AppTrap is free, open source, and installed as a system preference pane.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
serenity said 9:15AM on 7-10-2007
Cool, I'll definately check this one out. :)
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Michel said 9:17AM on 7-10-2007
this great
very great and totally invisible
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Mitch said 9:27AM on 7-10-2007
what a great idea! I'm forever forgetting to zap my apps and this would catch that!
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Buckingham said 9:42AM on 7-10-2007
Background application? If my job all day is installing and uninstalling programs then this might work for me. But I am content with doing the uninstall manually (doing a little file forensics in the preferences/cache folder) or using AppZapper when uninstalling some trial program--which *may* happen every 4 months or so.
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Sashel said 9:43AM on 7-10-2007
Nice...
just installed and works great. Its has a little Ripoff flavor to it and I hope AppZapper adds this feature in the next release / update. Cause i still dont wanna miss the Interface (for multible zapping / app used overview).
The Zapp Sound is also something i would miss :)
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SSteve said 9:49AM on 7-10-2007
Boy. Rip off Hazel much?
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Jason said 9:56AM on 7-10-2007
This sounds great (and what would most likely be implemented in future OS X). Can't wait to try it. Thanks.
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nggalai said 10:26AM on 7-10-2007
Works great – for applications that lie in my user’s application directory. I’m not Admin on my machine, and the popup for logging in as admin when trashing a program in /Applications seems to block AppTrap’s own popup. Hence, not very useful for me … well, I’ll wait for a future release. Looks promising.
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Matteo Rampazzi said 10:15AM on 7-10-2007
I use AppDelete http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete and find it also a really cool tool. You can put it in the application bar and then drag and drop any app you wish to delete. I suggest this as an alternative (of course it is also completely free, don't know if open source as well).
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guilt+1 said 10:40AM on 7-10-2007
Works great for me. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Ken said 11:21AM on 7-10-2007
I'll agree with Buckingham: as most people don't install/uninstall apps daily, it would be better to avoid having another background application/service running all the time.
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Martin said 11:01AM on 7-10-2007
Very nice app! Thanks for the recommendation. I'm always looking for more ways to keep my Mac running smoothly, with as little clutter as possible.
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nggalai said 11:22AM on 7-10-2007
I mailed with the dev, and he’ll look into AppTrap working properly for non-admin users. I guess there might be an update soon …
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Brandon said 12:04PM on 7-10-2007
uApp FTW! http://uapp.en.softonic.com/mac
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FrankMcBilboWinker said 12:57PM on 7-10-2007
I want my 12.00 wasted on App Zapper back.
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Dave Chartier said 2:43PM on 7-10-2007
That window looks like a complete ripoff of the app uninstalling feature that just debuted in the new version of Hazel:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/27/hazel-2-0-beta-released-with-application-uninstalling-tons-of-n/
Hazel FTW!
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Quine said 10:37PM on 7-10-2007
You really should note that this background app saps more than 10 megs of memory (and that Hazel does the same thing with half the memory usage and ten times the features).
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Eric said 6:40AM on 7-11-2007
IT'S NOT FREE!
You can only use it five times, after that you have to pay $12.95...
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izahn78 said 3:05PM on 7-11-2007
Um, no. AppTrap is free.
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