Definite Best Place For Software Downloads

[evion 0]

All through my years on the computer, i've found many small software utilities that can be downloaded quite easily from the official site but most often takes time. That's the reason why there are mirrors around the web. So far, i find majorgeeks.com the best place to go to if you want to find any software mirror. They don't necessarily host the software itself all the time but most of the time they would have servers all over different countries hosting the software.

They've got virus definitions, patches to existing software, and anti-spyware scanners and much much more. Although as I've read in previous topics that most of the software hosted in majorgeeks.com is mainly Windows related, i believe the patches for some of the software works on Macs or Linux too.

One other good thing about Majorgeeks is that it boasts only 1 ad on the side of the screen that most users won't even notice. It is also very browser-friendly and can accept basically every browser available in the net (I tried alot of browsers and all of them worked on majorgeeks.com). And even if you don't know which section the software you want is in, you can search using the Google search utility.

I won't say much about their forum because I've never been there. (Xisto is still the best for technical answers!) But it seems pretty OK by the many answers I've seen to many difficult computer-related questions.

Majorgeeks.com is seriously really great for downloading mirrors really fast and checking out on the latest software or maybe even help the others in the forum!

[cyph3r 0]

1) DOWNLOAD.com

 

2) TUCOWS.com

 

3) ZDNET.com

 

 

Some of the other widely used download sites other than majorgeeks there MAY be more, not sticking to this list. but i think these r the most reliable or rather fast to d'load with different server options. Relaible - umm, i dunt know if i found anyone reliable yet. all u have to do is upload ur file, no one checks it unless after 2 -3 days when 1000 people have d'loaded and reported it spyware or virus.

[hatim 0]

If you like Open Source softwares..freshmeat.net is a nice place. It will be helpfule to become the memeber. That way you will be able to apply filters to your search. ie lets say you search for a C++/CGI Based forum you can apply the filters of Environment :: Web and Programming Language :: C / C++ (dont worry you get these filters in a drop down choice). Also you can select for differt Operating Systems and stability (ie Production Stable, Mature ) etc . Genrally a project which has been there for about 5+ years and has version beyond 2 is quite stable (but thats very subjective)The catch : this site only offers Open Source Softwares. Actually it doesnt even offer them ..it lets you search and shortlist softwares you need. And then links you to the page where they actually are (mostly on freshmeat.net)

[solankyno1 0]

Major Geeks is a good website for downloading softwares but I think the best site is Download.com. ( Zdnet and Download.com are almost same because they are from the same owner CNET) . I have tried tucows.com also but it is not as good as download.com for me.
There is also a very good side for downloading free softwares, the site is https://sourceforge.net/ , this site provides Open Source Softwares. There are a lot of softwares avaible on this site some of them are really very very good like emule, gaim, notepad++ etc. There is free alternative of almost every software on this website.

[iGuest 3]

* My definite best for Windows software: Download.com* My definite best for *Nix software: freshmeat.net* My definite best for misc. software: P2P networks

[Artluo100 0]

Download.com&MajorGeeks.com