Deleting Applications Made Fun With AppZapper
Chances are you have heard all about AppZapper, if you have not let me tell you what it is exactly. AppZapper is a really fun application that deletes your applications. You are probably asking yourself: How is deleting Applications Fun?
Well let me tell you how it works. You open AppZapper, and you will be greeted with a little box that you just drag your unwanted application to. Once you find the application, just simply drag it right into the box and you will get a cool little like zapping/shooting noise.
The only down part about AppZapper, is that it costs $12.95. Now you are probably asking yourself: Why would I pay money to delete applications when Trash is perfectly fine? The answer to that question is that AppZapper is better than Trash.
What trash does is it deletes the application, thats it. Now, what AppZapper does it deletes everything, the preferences installed into the computer, caches, and other files that are added to the computer. Let get the guys at AppZapper to better explain what it does for you.
Drag an app into your applications folder, and it’s installed. You’d think it would be that easy to delete an app — just a matter of dragging it to the trash. But it’s not. Applications install preferences, caches, and other support files throughout your computer that take up space and generate clutter. Deleting these by hand every time you delete an app is a pain.
This program is great for notebook users. That is because you are fully deleting everything that the application came with, which means that you will have more free space on your hard drive.
Concluding Thoughts
So what are your thoughts on AppZapper? Do you already have the application, if so how do you like it?
Comment by MacTipper on 18 May 2008:
I got appzapper with the Macheist bundle and I have yet to use it. For two reasons actually:
1: I don’t uninstall that many apps.
2: I thought that the trash was just as easy of a way.
Now, I knew that appzapper would delete the PLIST files. However, that’s just a small little text file (4-16 KB). So, I figured that it didn’t really matter. However, what didn’t even occur to me (but you pointed out) was the Cache files! Those can take up some serious room! (An average of 6.75 MB) Now I might actually start using AppZapper…
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