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AppToDate: Software updater for Windows Mobile

Posted Apr 11th 2008 11:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows Mobile, Freeware, Mobile Minute, Beta

AppToDateThere are a handful of decent programs for Windows that will help you determine if the software on your PC is up to date. But as far as we know, nobody's ever developed such an application for Windows Mobile. Until now. AppToDate is a utility for Windows Mobile that checks to see if your installed software is up to date, and if not, it will automatically download updates.

Right now, only a handful of applications are supported, and AppToDate is still in the early beta stages. But we love the concept. Imagine only having to install software on your phone or PDA once. From then on, every time an update is issued, it would be installed automatically.

Developers can join the beta by adding AppToDate support to their applications, and anyone can download and install the application on their Windows Mobile device. Assuming they have Windows Mobile 5.0 or later. Windows Mobile 2003 doesn't appear to be supported.

[via Just Another Mobile Monday]
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Appupdater: Command line utility for keeping your apps up to date

Posted Dec 19th 2007 4:45PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

AppUpdater
Appupdater might just be the coolest Windows app ever. OK, that's probably an overstatement, but we've been looking for something like this for ages. Essentially, Appupdater is to Windows what apt-get is to Debian Linux. In other words, it's a command line utility that lets you automatically download, install, update, and remove applications.

Here's how it works. Once you've downloaded and installed Appupdater, you can either run it by clicking on a shortcut or by running the Appupdater command using a command line box (which you can pull up by typing "cmd" into the Run box in your start menu.

While there is a graphical interface, it's pretty ugly and the command line version is actually much easier to use. Here are a few commands to get you started:
  • "appupdater --update" will grab a list of available packages (or programs) from a server.
  • "appupdater --list" shows a list of installed packages on your system. Note, this is not a complete list of installed application, but rather a list of packages available in the repository which you have already installed.
  • "appupdater --available" displays a full list of available packages.
  • "appupdater --install PKG" will let you download and install a package. For example, "appupdater --install pidgin" downloads and installs the latest version of Pidgin.
  • "appupdater --upgrade" will download and install updates for all supported applications that have available updates.
  • "appupdater --remove PKG" uninstalls a specified package.
You can get a complete list of commands in the user manual.
AppUpdater does not by any means support every freeware application available for Windows. But it does have a pretty good list of apps. And you can also create your own custom repositories.

We've seen other attempts to create a Linux-style package management system for Windows. But Appupdater definitely seems to be the most useful of the bunch.

[via Lifehacker]
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