Response from the site administrator
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.