Apple actually has a few ways of making a list of installed apps, as shown in System Information. More on this buried in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2765

Apple actually has a few ways of making a list of installed apps, as shown in System Information. More on this buried in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2765063/how-can-i-discover-what-apps-are-installed-on-os-x-using-objective-c-or-macruby http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2765063/how-can-i-discove... ... My fav. tricks tend to be all the nice -xml commands Apple offers. Oh ... and "Installations" probably lists all the receipts from running graphical installers, this being different from drag-and-drop .app lists which you can also find.