Free appfresh crash software for mac

AppFresh is very useful free tool that keeps all applications on your Mac up to date by checking the internet for new releases and makes downloading and installing them a breeze.

AppFresh covers software updates from Apple and third parties and can be used as a replacement for Apples own Software Update application to provide one central place to make sure youre up to date.

AppFresh is still very much work in progress, and this is only a preview for now. For safety reasons, it wont overwrite your applications but extract downloaded updates to your desktop.

Make sure to check the development blog regularly. You are welcome to leave your feedback or suggestions for improvements there.

While creating ProfCast, we wanted to have a way to get the crash reports back to us and not just to Apple. To solve this problem we found Smart Crash Reporter from Unsanity Software, but it did not solve our problem as well as we wanted it to. So we rolled up our sleeves and implemented a solution that provided what we needed.
The result a crash reporter that lives within your application. It does not catch the crash in the same way as other solutions. HDCrashReporter, when invoked, looks at the logs to see if the application crashed last time it was run. If a crash was detected, HDCrashReporter asks the user if he/she wants to submit in the crash report. In addition to the basic crash report, HDCrashReporter also sends in a filtered console log so that you can see exactly what occurred before the crash.
You can download the framework here along with its source. It has been build as a Universal binary, and thus requires 10.4, but if it is rebuilt, it could run on 10.3 as it uses bindings.
Enhancements:
- This new version of HDCrashReporter builds on top of the previous version.
- By re-factoring the code, we gave access to the code that retrieve the crash report and the console log, so that you can get those information independently of the rest.
- Also the console log and crash report are now sent as attachments.
- We also integrated the following submission contributed by Marc Liyanage
- 1.) Localizations. I used HDCrashReporter in an application which is localized in four languages so I translated the .nib file. It is now available in English, German, French and Italian. While the English versions text is unchanged, the width of the label boxes was expanded a bit because the text expands in most languages. Since Xcode uses the English version as a template when you use the "Add Localization" function, this means that future localizations wont have to fiddle with layout changes/geometry in Interface Builder (in most cases). It should be possible to add new localizations just by using the "nibtool -L" / "nibtool -d -w" commands and translating the string table.

Whether you want to disable it or customize its behavior, the Crash Reporter can be controlled with this free Preference Pane plug-in.
If you are using Mac OS X 10.3 or above, you can specify whether you want to be prompted (the default behavior), to be taken straight to the crash submission form, or simply to not be informed when an application crashes.
Enhancements:
- This update gives more detailed feedback regarding the Crash Reporters current settings.

Requirements:
PowerPC, System 7.5 or later.

Would you like to receive Crash Reports when your application crashes?
Would you like to be able to customise the information in those Crash Reports?
Would you like to be able to receive Bug Reports from your users in a standard format?
Would you like to be able to automatically gather information from your users system (version info, log file entries, preference settings, etc), to accompany those bug reports?
Would you like to be able to send your users a file to double click to collect information from their system to return back to you, for use in further diagnosis?
If the answer to the first question is yes, you need a CrashReporter.
If the answer to any of the other questions is yes, you might want to look at MMICrashReporter.
Main features:
- Powerful information gathering capabilities: MMICrashReporter can collect contact information, user description, contact details, crash logs, log files, preferences, and the output of arbitrary commands.
- High configurability: The information to be collected, and the user interface to be presented to the user can be configured via an XML configuration file.
- XML property list output: to allow easy automatic processing of reports.
- Extensible data collection architecture: If the existing data collection components do not meet your requirements, you can write your own.
- Extensible report delivery architecture: Basic mail and web based delivery are included, but you can also write your own delivery agent plugins, if necessary.
- "BugReporter" mode: For collecting non-crashing bug reports in a standardised format.
- "Personal Reports": double clicking on a crash reporter configuration file will open a bug report using that configuration. Personalised Configuration files can be sent to users to collect information specific to their problem.
- Document-Based: Multiple bug/crash reports can be handled simultaneously.
- Delayed delivery: Reports can be saved for later delivery (e.g. when the user is offline).
- Fully localizable: Ask users for bug reports in their native language.*
- * These features are currently incomplete or un-implemented.
Enhancements:
- First public release.

Requirements:
MacOS 8.6 or later, Power Macintosh G4 (PCI Graphics).