Shovel Help

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Main Help

Welcome to Shovel, 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.

Using Shovel

Shovel provides two lists, which can be accessed using the icons in the toolbar at the top of the Shovel window.
Update AppsThis list shows all applications that are currently installed on your computer, except those that are part of the operating system.
Get AppsThis list shows a database of applications that have been registered with the owners of Shovel. Usually those haven't been installed on your computer yet. This list is there to make it easier for you to obtain other applications written by the makers or Shovel, as well as other applications that are just generally very popular and may thus interest you.

If you can't find the toolbar in the Shovel window, you have probably hidden it. Click the elliptic white button in the upper right of the window title bar to re-show the toolbar.

Author

Shovel is (c) Copyright 2004 by M. Uli Kusterer, all rights reserved.
http://www.zathras.de
shovel@zathras.de