If you tire of trying to remember all the useful software tools that you might look for on a fresh install, I suggest you check out File Hippo, an excellent resource for the latest software.
In one location you’ll find download links for a huge range of open-source, freeware and shareware tools, utilities, media players, and much more. Some of our favourite web design tools are in there as well, including Notepad++ and MySQL. In addition to this, File Hippo have created their own update checker, which allows you to quickly find out if there are newer versions of your installed software available. In their own words:
With filehippo.com our aim is to provide you with the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software - without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software.
What’s on offer?
File Hippo have broken everything down into helpful categories:
- Browsers and Plugins
- File Sharing
- Messaging and Chat
- File Transfer
- Office and News
- Developer Tools
- Anti-Spyware
- Firewalls and Security
- Anti-Virus
- Cleaning and Tweaking
- Compression and Backup
- Benchmarking
- Networking
- Audio and Video
- CD and DVD Tools
- Desktop
- Imaging
- Drivers
It is certainly an extensive list and what’s more it’s kept vigorously up to date, even to the extent that they seem to get updates out faster than some software manages to self-update1.
I recommend you check out their site, and feel pretty sure you’ll be going back there over and again.
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