AppZapper Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW's Daily Mac App: AppCleaner

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 23rd, 2011)

Last week on the Daily Mac App we featured the infamous uninstaller AppZapper. Today we've got a fully-featured free alternative, AppCleaner. Available from FreeMacSoft, the freeware (donations accepted) AppCleaner does what it says on the tin. Just like AppZapper, you can drag-and-drop the ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: AppZapper

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 15th, 2011)

Uninstalling apps on a Mac is easy -- just delete the program from your Applications folder. But what about all the garbage of ancillary files that gets left behind? Zap 'em with AppZapper. AppZapper is an uninstaller that does everything for you and makes sure nothing is left behind. It'll ...

iPhone sync problems after iTunes update traced to leftover plugin

by Kelly Guimont (Jun 23rd, 2010)

In case you are on the road to an iOS 4 update (and be careful), you might want to double check your work. Remember, first you have to update iTunes to 9.2, which will then allow you to download the iOS 4 update. After I updated iTunes, I went in to make some changes to what I had synced and take ...

AppZapper: a great big upgrade for a small utility

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 6th, 2010)

I discovered AppZapper years ago. It was a huge boon for me, helping me keep my support folders a little cleaner as I began the early stages of my habit of installing 2 or more new apps a day, trying them, and usually deleting them. It let me drag an application to its interface, and would then ...

Friday Favorite: AppZapper

by Dave Caolo (Jul 31st, 2009)

Every so often I'll go through my Mac's hard drive and delete stuff that's just sitting around. The downloads folder fills with junk especially fast. I also download lots of software out of curiosity, and after a few months my applications folder is bulging. While installing Mac software is often as ...

Mac 101: uninstalling applications

by Mat Lu (Apr 28th, 2008)

This time around in Mac 101 I thought it would be good to talk about uninstalling applications on the Mac, especially for the recent switchers out there. Unlike Windows, Mac OS X does not have a native utility for uninstalling applications. Most (though not all) applications are installed just by ...

10 commandments of Mac optimization

by Mike Schramm (Jul 26th, 2007)

Jason Swadley of InsanelyMac.com let us know about his posting of the Ten Commandments of Mac Optimization (I especially enjoyed the HotWp1 joke). The list is an interesting one, because it's a good mix of actual software tips, and what you might call mindset suggestions. On the practical tips side, ...

AppTrap

by Dan Lurie (Jul 10th, 2007)

Everyone loves AppZapper for removing unwanted applications, and while many have called for something like it to be included in future versions of OS X, AppTrap comes closer to replicating the Mac simplicity we all enjoy so much. Expanding on the drag-and-drop workflow used to install programs, ...

Who Is Hubert?

by Alberto Escarlate (Nov 3rd, 2006)

Strange things have been afoot in the Mac shareware community over the past few days; manifested by the cute-as-a-button icon you see to the right popping up on multiple different sites. All we know about this cute lil' guy so far is that his name is Hubert. Oh, and he doesn't want us to talk about ...

The TUAW Interview: 3 Developers behind My Dream App

by Scott McNulty (Aug 24th, 2006)

A few days ago I sat down (virtually) with the 3 developers who will be coding the winning ideas from My Dream App (they are also judges). Austin Sarner (AppZapper), Jason Harris (Shapeshifter, ThemePark, and Chicken of the VNC to name a few), and Martin Ott (SubEthaEdit) have a big task ahead of ...

MacZot and Disco ask you to trust them

by Dan Lurie (Aug 18th, 2006)

MacZot and the guys behind AppZapper are asking all you hard working readers to fork over your cash for a yet-to-be-announced application by the name of Disco. The idea is you get in early at a price way below what the app will eventually cost; and you get access to the private beta. Not much is ...

AppZapper 1.6

by Scott McNulty (Jun 27th, 2006)

When it comes to uninstalling crap from OS X there is only one program that you should turn to (other than the Trash can) and that's AppZapper. Everyone's favorite application deletion software was just been updated to version 1.6. New in version 1.6 are: Sparkle, for auto updating multi ...

AppZapper updated to version 1.5

by Dave Caolo (May 22nd, 2006)

AppZapper is one of my favorite utilities. As you can see from the screenshot at right, it's one of only two applications to earn the honor of a spot in my Finder windows' toolbar (ImageWell is the other). For the uninitiated, AppZapper lets you easily uninstall software. Just drop your target app's ...

macZOT! giving away AppZapper

by Scott McNulty (Apr 3rd, 2006)

What will those kooky kids at macZOT! do next? Well, at the moment they seem determined to give away 2000 copies of AppZapper, kind of. As they say, there is no such thing as a free lunch in this life. macZOT! will lower the price of AppZapper by 5 cents for every blog that links to them, until the ...