I remember just a few years ago waiting impatiently for the programs that I would use to include update-checking to save me from having to track down all their websites (some long gone, others moved causing 404s) just to see if a never version had come out.
Later on many if not most of the programs on my hard drive had updating included, but having to run each one, one at a time, was still rather tedious.
Many mass-updating websites have come and gone, but one still remains: filehippo. Now this website hosts some great freeware, along with some open-source and trialware programs. What more, it would be hard to miss an update since the site offers many ways to notify you: A news feed via RSS, updates via twitter and even a very nice update-checker that will scan certain folders on your hard drive and show you any available updates that you can then read up about on filehippos website and download right away.
Last point for this review is that software on a computer should always be kept up to date. You not only get new features here and there, but you also get bug fixes and therefore increased security and productivity. Newer versions are sometimes not better however, there may be features that you would use that have been removed. You could either write the programmers to ask them to include them once again, you could find a new program that does what you'd want it to, or you could download a earlier version of the one you now use which is also available on filehippo.com.
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URL: http://www.filehippo.com/
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