CybTekSol Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 I would like Ketarin users to submit a list of their TOP FIVE MOST FREQUENTLY USED Software Download Sites in order that we all can gain some knowledge of which sites that we need to focus on for developing templates that do not currently exist in our 'Template Forum' posts. Thank you in advance for your input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somerandomhash Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 (edited) Excellent idea, mine would be: Softpedia - simply the amount of content available Filehippo - is the best implementation of a site would like to see more stuff on there though BetaFileForum - after using your provided template Sourceforge - not a true software site but you'll no doubt understand its usefulness Download.com - the grand daddy of them all 3 others I think may be worth a look at are: Tucows, Serverfiles.com, PortableApps.com P.S It occured to me,as some of the files people loo for eg Java SDK etc can be difficult to obtain via the 'site' I would suggest it may be worth me looking at using some well known mirror sites like http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites (for templates) Edited February 20, 2009 by somerandomhash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somerandomhash Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 BUMP, from looking at the number of posts it seems like a few site templates have proved rather popular. I hope others will post their opinions to this survey. We could look at defining the down loader TYPE eg are you a developer downloading tar.gz files, maybe you are a system builder who's always downloading driver updates or you use game 'demo' and patch sites etc. I understand some of the sites mentioned eg Softpedia cater for all these types but I suspect from a development point of view some of this would be useful as well as allowing those of us who like to 'tinker' template a better idea of what people want and some ideas for future challenges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted March 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I hope others will post their opinions to this survey. WELL... does anyone else want to add to the survey? We're STILL waiting... or maybe we've already got 'em all covered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseF Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 +1 For already covered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchclimber Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 we'll actually.... One of the reasons for me to look for something like Ketarin is the fact that I download most stuff from the original websites (as it seems safest to me). But it's a lot of work to stay updated with all these individual sites. As much as I like the idea of 1 or 2 central 'repositories' I am always a bit wary that these download sites put in extra stuff (in zip files etc....) and I am not 100% sure what their source is. (might just be my lack of research on this topic) R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranciscoR Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) Sites like MG, SF, Softpedia, Filehippo... are reliable sites with thousands of happy users. It's not P2P we're talking about. If you have a lot of apps and you wanna 'batch DL' with Ketarin there is really no alternative than to use such sites. If you have a lot of apps its also a lot easier to track only one site: if HTML changes, if DL_URL changes, you can 'batch edit' your XMLs in a breeze. Key here is scale. Another point is several developers choose to upload *only* to such sites for marketing purposes, so... Edited April 29, 2009 by FranciscoR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurelio Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Here's my list (in no particular order): http://sourceforge.net/ http://code.google.com/ http://www.softpedia.com/ http://majorgeeks.com/ http://www.filehorse.com/ http://www.filehippo.com/ http://www.snapfiles.com/ http://fileforum.betanews.com/ http://download.cnet.com/ http://en.softonic.com/ http://www.techspot.com/ http://portableapps.com/ I find it useful to have a Google Custom search for these kind of sites: This is on my bookmark: http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001600792656195818973:pgqw93wxq8g&ie=UTF-8&q=&num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&prmd=ivns&filter=0&sa=Search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Very nice, Aurelio, though I suggest against using CNET whenever possible, now that they're including crapware in all the downloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurelio Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Very nice, Aurelio, though I suggest against using CNET whenever possible, now that they're including crapware in all the downloads. I agree, I use it as a last resource only... (which does end up being... never! " ) but about the "crapware" (CNET installer?) it's still possible to avoid it by clicking on "Direct Download Link" right below the big "Download Now" button. I've been using FileHorse.com as an alternative to some apps that were previously setup on FileHippo.com (I'm tring to spread out the tracking source for my apps as much as possible - "no more than 25 apps at a single source"). FileHorse is an almost outrageous copy of FileHippo. " What I most like about the custom search is that I can instantaneously "refine" it (loose filter) by clicking on a specific Site that I'm looking for (to use in that particular application). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dean Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I used this site for Windows freeware download. http://filedocks.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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