Sparkle (software)
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| Sparkle | |
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 Sparkle's Test App showing a Software Update window. Release notes used are from Pixen. |
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| Design by | Andy Matuschak |
| Initial release | January 9, 2006 |
| Latest release | 1.1 / July 16, 2006 |
| OS | Mac OS X |
| Genre | software update framework |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ |
Sparkle is a free Mac OS X software framework designed to simplify updating software for the end user of a program. Sparkle supports checking for updates via appcasting.
[edit] Programs
It is used in over 100 programs, such as:
- Adium
- AppZapper
- Artwork
- Cog
- Colloquy
- Cyberduck
- Exces
- iStumbler
- MainMenu
- Mactracker
- Max
- NicePlayer
- OmniWeb 5.6
- Path Finder
- Peel
- Pixen
- PDFView
- Quinn
- Scrivener
- SubEthaEdit
- Transmission
- Vienna
- Xslimmer
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