Comments on: What makes good software portal

By: Custom Name Badges

Custom Name Badges — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:27:20 +0000

Softpedia is my favourite choice, but FileHippo is good too

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:50:18 +0000

@software developers

Well, decent ones aren’t. Actually it would be quite hard to encounter malware on most large portals.

By: software developers

software developers — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:29:04 +0000

Nice post,

these are plagued by malicious software and malware.. be careful

Thanks

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:29:35 +0000

@Flash

Do you mean wary about what you download (like in possible malware) or wary about how portal presents and describes software?

By: Flash Content Creators

Flash Content Creators — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:24:49 +0000

I’ve used filehippo and hence I trust it. Otherwise one needs to be wary while going to a new site to get software.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:05:58 +0000

@Jonathan

Thanks for sharing, will check it out. :)

Need to try that sumo as well. I rarely use such updater apps because I see updates in RSS anyway. Additional software for that is bit excessive for me.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:19 +0000

If looking for software I usually use http://www.techsupportalert.com/ as Gizmo on there aswell as other contributers give excellent roundups of tons of different catagories and pick software thats usually spot on for my needs.
I do use the filehippo update checker though aswell as sumo: http://www.kcsoftwares.com/?sumo

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:03:26 +0000

@Asgaro

So for you it’s good set of software, useful descriptions and good input from visitors. Last one is hard to achieve even for blogs, harder for software portals probably.

Thanks for your input. :)

By: Asgaro

Asgaro — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:38:36 +0000

Filehippo:

- It seems the software published on that site has been carefully chosen. Nearly every product available there is rather well known by any experienced user. (Instead of Softpedia where there are a lot of unknown software)

- The Filehippo Update Checker is a very useful tool to get things done really fast.

- Clean interface, categories are well chosen.

- Changelog provided if possible.

- Knowledge of version number, supported OSes, size, licence type.

Tweakers.net (for software in particular: http://tweakers.net/meuktracker/?CatID=77 )

- You can sort on a large variaty of operating systems.

- Every program has it’s thorough description, which also includes the changes in the specific release.

- Able to post comments (there’s a good administrators rating system so there aren’t any shitty comments xD )

- Knowledge of version number, release status (final, beta, alpha, etc), supported OSes, size, licence type (freeware, shareware, etc)

- A lot of and all kinds of software are being tracked, but not as extreme as Softpedia.

Example: Windows 7 beta: http://tweakers.net/meuktracker/19289/microsoft-windows-7-beta-customer-preview.html : about 216 comments of which 22 are moderated as very interesting/useful/etc.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:25:40 +0000

@Asgaro

Second one lists firmwares on home page, interesting twist on software downloads.What about features? What made you choose these two as favorites?

Welcome to blog and thanks for your comment by the way. :)