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justice:
Researching for automatic update programs, I found Appget (direct download) (site is in dutch, but program is in english -- so use the babelfish translation to read more).

It scans the system for installed program then submits this list and compares it to the lists other users have submitted. If other people are running a newer version then it will notify you. It's possible to ignore items like windows updates, report version comparison problems (right click), submit urls for up-to-date versions, and search the app using google.

The application works really well but only programs that are detected through the add/remove programs list are detected. Also it depends on enough people using it so updates are found. Apart from these minor niggles, it's worth a look!



The author is very reponsive and friendly, I have discussed features in the past and sent him a link to this topic. :Thmbsup:

Nighted:
woah, I will check this out immediately! Nice find.  :Thmbsup:

lanux128:
another program that is similar but still in beta - filehippo.com Update Checker.
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8142.0

jozydapozy:
Nice! a topic about my own application ;)
First of all I've to say that the date of version 0.5 is incorrect. It's from February 2007, not 2006.
I'm currently working on version 0.6 which will be released within the next few days. Comments and suggestions are more then welcome in this thread or on the website (www.appget.nl)

justice:
another program that is similar but still in beta - filehippo.com Update Checker.
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8142.0
-lanux128 (June 02, 2007, 02:41 PM)
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It is the same but it is different. FileHippo checks only applications that FileHippo provides for download, but always knows the real newest version. AppGet works with any application but depends on someone having the newest version installed.

Welcome to the forum jozydapozy, I was thinking maybe you could create a custom searchengine that queries the main download sites and change the "search" link to that page, you'd get better results. http://fileforum.betanews.com, filehippo, snapfiles.com, download.com that should probably cover most applications. In the customsearch you can choose just to mark these sites as most important, so not to exclude the rest of the net.

Also fileforum and filehippo (probably others) have an RSS feed where they announce their newest versions. if you could read in this data (xml) and update versions automatically that would be a major step forward.

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