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Shovel is a Software Update application that helps you keep your third-party (i.e. non-Apple) applications up-to-date. It can check your applications' version numbers to detect whether a newer version is available, and will download, and (in many cases) also install them.
Right now, Shovel knows how to update two kinds of applications:
In all other cases, Shovel will ask the user what to do, giving her the option to select a particular installer to run, to copy a particular file over, or to just skip installation and put the downloaded files on the desktop for later manual installation.