Freeware popularly known as Free software. There are plenty of software which does almost the same thing and differ in few features. Like we have Open Office.org for Microsoft office alternative, we have GIMP as an alternative for Photoshop.
Talking about multimedia software, we have Video Lan player, Windows media player, Real player and so on, selecting the best out of them depend on user’s personal choice. Though a review of software help up to understand the software and give more insight about it.
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There are plenty of websites on the Internet, from where we can download software. Some legal ways and some illegal.
The downside of illegal websites are , most of time they come bundled up with viruses and Trojans, which tends to infect your Computer. You might saved 2$ by not paying for the license of the software but you ended up paying 200$ for data backup because of this.
The best solution here is look for expert review and download free alternative software, which is freeware and you can read the review and expert remark before downloading them.
1. Download.com
Download.com is widely used website for software review and software download. Its domain name has a key advantage here. The download.com shows the review along with user opinion and other stats like number of time software is downloaded. Their software archive is very huge and easy to navigate.
The websites consist of freeware and shareware software’s. If a software is a shareware it will also show the price for the licensing. A detail description of software along with rating and screenshot are also there.
The largest open source application and software directory on the Internet. The directory contains the wide list of open source softwares.
One of the most popular website to keep track of latest updated software. Filehippo has also a software popularly known as update checker which helps to check if latest version of software’s are installed or not. You can grab their RSS feeds to keep track of all software updates.
As name suggest and their tagline Because new is always not better. This is website from where you can download old version of most of the software. Their archive contains almost all the older version of popular software. Bookmark this website, because it can become very handy at times.
6. Softpedia
Another huge software directory for your Windows, Macintosh and Linux system. Contains wide range of freeware. The website can be very handy to track latest software updates and new freeware.
7. SnapFiles
Another good website to track latest software trend and updates. Their homepage features new and popular Weekly top 20 and Users choice to easily track down popular and upcoming software in all categories.
Gizmo’s freeware along with the forum and lots of freeware reviews. Wide categories of freeware software are covered here. You can also subscribe to Gizmo’s feeds to keep track of latest trendy and upcoming software.
Another popular website to track the latest software and find the review. The website navigation is very friendly.
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quite a nice handy list of websites but sourceforge.net stands out of these, coz its the only open source software hosting website, sometimes referred as the “mecca of ‘free’ softwares” for programmers and developers where u not only get free softwares but also source codes but the other 8 websites donot give u source for each programm u download..
I think you need to differentiate between Freeware and Libre (“Free-as-in-beer”) software. What matters not is whether the end user gets to use it for free, but whether the source code is open and available for further modification by the community at large.
This post is essentially a collection of sites devoted to freeware & shareware downloads in most cases. I’d like to add in one more site: PricelessWare – the site directory of the best freeware as voted for by the users of the alt.comp.freeware usenet group.
Thanks for the input Sparx. Main idea of the post was to give some useful resources to the readers.
I appreciate your insight here.
That makes a great list! I usually land up at download.com to get any free software. Now I found 8 other places with your help.
you missed Frewarefiles.com in the list.
Thanks for the input. That makes it number 11
http://www.freewarefiles.com/
An older source is Tucows.com, it’s been around awhile.
My favorites among these include: Download.com, Major geeks and Softpedia
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Harsh, I have used few of them. Download.com is the best.
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