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Freeware sites that do rate the software NoNags Freeware one of the very best sites for freeware Snapfiles does a very good job on shareware and freeware. You can view them separately or together. FileHungry.com Fort Freeware this is an English site. Check here to understand their rating system Tucows AZ Mirror This site mostly covers shareware and demoware, but does include some freeware. They are one of the best sites for locating good shareware SoftLandMark a good commercial/shareware/freeware site in India Freeware4You SoftPedia Freeware sites that don't rate the software Source Forge Largest source of Open Source(code) Software, free for individual & commercial use. Easy search interface requires registration The Gnu Projeect Windows Software see also The Free Country Excellent resource for Programmers, Webmasters and Security utilities TheFreesite.com Download.com by CNet An extensive lister of freeware and shareware. They can be separated in advanced search, but the search is pretty weak. When I do a search for a firewall (description), freeware (license type), for Windows XP (OS) the first hit is IRQ Pro with Yahoo Messenger and NeoNapster (and similar poor choices) in the top 10. If you know exactly what you're looking for, this might be a good choice. ASP Home Page This site is for shareware professionals. You can learn a lot about shareware here, and you can get an extensive listing of sites that distribute shareware Winsite |
Sites of specific software authors Solway's Shareware Page Software Recommended by Others James A. Eshelman also check these Tom Porterfield Zero's Realm GPick List of Lists Pricelessware The Usenet group alt.comp.freeware rates what they consider the best software in various categories evey year. This is their list - excellent resource Freeware sites that make the "avoid at all costs list" I really don't want to provide links to this site (1 so far), so I'll only list it Simtel.net — the first thing I noticed was that this site did not display properly in Mozilla. After working with it for awhile, I decided to see how it worked with Windows Explorer. It did display better. After a very short time SpyBot Search and Destroy caught and prevented the download of some spyware they were putting onto my system. Three lessons. Don't use Internet Explorer. Don't Visit Simtel. Do use SpyBot Search and Destroy. |
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