I’ve  been a huge fan of automated addon updaters since the days of the WoWAce updater. I was deeply saddened when they stopped the service over at WoWAce, and quickly looked for a replacement. I didn’t look long and started using the Curse.com automator and was perfectly happy with it. Yes, I know, the rumors where hot and heavy that you could get a virus from them, ZOMG! I trusted Curse though and loved the program. I knew though, because they called their free service “premium”, that sooner or later the rug would come out and a charge would be applied to continue using it at a level I was used to. Sure enough, that premium service grew a cost and my Curse updater became slow and timely because I didn’t pay to get the “premium” service.

Then, ZAM the powerhouse company  that owns my beloved Wowhead and half the Interwebs finally came through!

We are happy to announce that our baby MMOUI Minions were born a little while ago and, although they still need a bit more training before they are fully housebroken*, are now big enough to be adopted!

MMOUI Minion: A free, eager-to-please little monster lackey of your own, with enough sense to stick to orders! Minion can handle all the ‘work’ assigned, letting you get back to the ’serious business’ of playing your game sooner. Not only that, it’s able to learn how to work with other sites that you use if they’ve set up Minion-training programs of their own.

From AddOns and News to Database Submissions and more, Minion is happy to serve!

You can go here to get your very own Minion.

• General Minion Usage (including installation instructions) and information on how to submit Bug Reports is here.
• To discuss Minion, please go to this forum.
• If you are interesting in writing modules for Minion, please see this forum for the API and general dev discussion.

Please note: Since this is a Beta release, we fully expect that there will be some bugs and you should too. This is not a finished product. Please be prepared to deal with the possibility of problems, or wait until we release the finished version. Be sure to make a backup of your AddOn and WTF folders before running Minion.

The small amount of time I have spent with it I can already say I am in love! Try it! It’s fast and better yet…FREE! Plus it’s backed by a huge company so secure is another good quality!