March 25, 2006
Sparkle: A Developers Application Update Component
Sparkle is a great little plugin that allows OSX developers to add automatic update features to their applications quickly and easily. So rather than forcing users to go and check websites for the latest version or even just notifying users that they are using an old version, sparkle can notify of new updates, download the updates and install them all through a very easy to use interface. I have already seen this plugin working in the Virtue virtual desktop application that I use. I expect that with the introduction of sparkle we will see more and more OSX applications with the same looking update components which is also a good thing for common look and feel across the Apple Platform. If only apple would allow third party developers to easily hook into the OSX Software Update Application.
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