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Why are some 'Update' labels in grey?

I could not find a "Help" or "FAQ" about the Mac Informer App so my apologies if this is explained somewhere.

CrlyWrly, 19.12.2012, 22:53
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macinformer, 20.12.2012
These are apps whose download link refers to an older version and not the newest update (if you click on any of them, you'll see that it asks you to share the new download link if you know one).

This is not always a bug or an oversight, some apps are actually expected to be greyed out: for example, paid software usually offers you a demo/trial download that doesn't necessarily work as an update. In these cases, the Mac Informer app simply hints that an update exists and you should try checking for updates from within the app in question itself.

These grey labels will be scrapped in one of the newer versions of Mac Informer altogether, they're not all that useful anyway.
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CrlyWrly, 21.12.2012, 04:18
Ah! "These are apps whose download link refers to an older version and not the newest update . . . These grey labels will be scrapped in one of the newer versions of Mac Informer altogether, they're not all that useful anyway. "

Quite useful now I know what they are :-)

I can't upgrade OS X beyond Lion (have just upped from Leopard to Snow Leopard) so an "older" update might be just what I need for some applications at the moment.

On a related issue - I have found it very helpful in these circumstances to have the option to permanently "ignore" updates that only apply to Lion and above.
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macinformer, 21.12.2012, 05:33
We'll think up a way to implement the useful side of those labels - notifying people of known and existing updates; but we'll be dropping the potentially misleading part - the fact that they usually send you a-seeking for updates that you can't download or benefit from (as with those Lion/ML ones).

Right now, disabling notifications altogether for those apps that have a separate ML version works surprisingly well: if there's an ML-only version 6.0 out there, Mac Informer won't notify you of updates like 5.4 -> 5.5 for Lion anyway. The downside of this blessing in disguise, of course, is the disguise itself. :)
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CrlyWrly, 21.12.2012, 13:51
Many thanks for the explanations :-)
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