Hi Sarah, I'm not sure what you want. If you just want a description of the app, you can find that for almost every app at the MacUpdate site. If you mean that you want a web site that will tell you that a particular app is no longer in the App Store, but that it once was there, then you can do a Google search on the name of the app, and "Appshopper" to find their Mac app listings. If the app was just pulled, then the AppShopper listing will still show as being current, and you can copy it. If a day or so has passed, the AppShopper page will say "App removed from site", but you'll still be able to navigate down the page and read the old description. When apps get pulled from the iOS App Store, this is usually the way that I check they're gone. Also, I can still navigate to the "App Activitiy" heading and check the last time stamps for a sense of when the app was last around. Of course, in the case of some long gone apps, such as the i-map-u that Geoff recalls would give your nea rest intersection, and which was available from 2008 through to early 2011 (maybe January or February), the last activity that shows is the price drop back to $0.99 in April of 2009!
Which app disappeared? A lot of apps are pulling out of the Mac App store with the new sandboxing restrictions. For example, TextExpander has a new version 4.0 release that just came out, but which isn't in the Mac App store because it doesn't meet the restrictions. The new features make it easier to generate template letters (where you fill in a name, or personalize small sections of a form reply), but because its snippet substitutions will work in any app, unlike the more limited text expansion that is available in Lion for Mail and a few frequently used applications, it doesn't meet the sandboxing restrictions and won't appear in the Mac App Store. I think this may apply to apps like Panic's Transmit, as well. (My Transmit license was an upgrade, done outside of the App Store.) See, for example, the MacWorld article from last week: "TextExpander 4 adds features, but must leave the Mac App Store": http://www.macworld.com/article/1167373/textexpander_4_adds_features_leaves_mac_app_store.html HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello to all. I just recorded a podcast and was prepping to do the show notes > when to my horror i realized through searching the app was no longer in the > app store. Is there a site i can link to that at least gives the > descriptions? i don't think you can download apps that are not there anymore > so i won't even go there but any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
