Recent News

February24th- 2008 Age verification system is done!! We're doing our best to provide a more trusted service for our users. We have flagged some of the listings already and you should see the "18+" graphic on any listing that is "Restricted to Adults"; these pages have the RTA rating META tag as well.

February15th- 2008Age verification system is coming withing a couple days. This is not so great news for the youngsters, but we believe in providing a trusted service for our internet users.

We could use your help with respect to the ongoing effort to keep the content ratings accurate -- since our scan may not correctly tag all items as "Mature content" that should be tagged or even falsely tag a few innocent listings as "Mature content"; please submit a quick and easy "Issue Report" for that listing to help us correct those listings.

February14th- 2006TONS of duplicated content removed - and blacklisted forever - I'll say exactly what I said the last time I removed the duplicate content: We believe that software that comes from SPAM sites has no business here; because of this, we hope that you consider our site a better source for software. We made a HUGE list of sites that will never be able to submit new programs, but there's still lots of duplicates to remove.

Not only do the duplicates confuse the end-user (wondering which of the eight seemingly identical programs to download or try out), but their order and download links frequently take the user to yet another page - where they must then find appropriate download link. Most of our listings have single-click download and order links.

Changes were made to our developer submission policy. The changes are all related to the duplicate content issue.

January31st- 2008Few minor improvements to various pages - No changes that were too big, but the largest fix was to make the caching work better.

January20th- 2008Comments system online! - The online comments system allows users to enter comments for any listing on the site.

January10th- 2008Few tweaks and the popular "Vista-esque" theme is now the site default - We made a few minor layout changes here and there. This was based on the popularity of the various themes that were selected by the site's users over many months of traffic.

December18th- 2007Quad-CPU server upgrade!!! - There are four 64bit CPUs on the new server. The increased traffic to our site was causing the old server load to indicate "in the red", but the new server has been "staying in the green" even with the increased traffic.

December1st- 2007Page caching for more of a speed increase & less load on database - The database load is reduced greatly for many pages that are now cached. These pages are recreated after 30 days, but there is little need to create these pages each time they are requested -- they don't change very much over time, so this caching removes a tremendous burden on the database which makes everything else faster.

September20th- 2007Minor speed increase & more available bandwidth - The description says it all. We now serve gzip compressed content whenever possible. This results in savings of up to 70% for bigger pages. We've also trimmed a few database queries to give yet quicker results.

September5th- 2007Articles! We have partnered with a creative web author who writes technical articles. If you would like to have your similar articles published, contact us to see if we might publish your tech articles (including links to your site / services that are followed by search bots) as well.

August21st- 2007Aggressive external link polling - we've written a full featured link poll routine to check all of our published links so that we can remove all of the bad links before you have to find out the hard way that a link is bad. It's going to take a while before it even scans through the first time, but the scan works around the clock to remove these bad links. At the same time, it updates any values from the publisher's listing that may have changed.

August5th- 2007Tools added to menu The tools index has been put together to group some links to our member tools and other web services. This area was created initially for the CSS shadow tools, etc - since they didn't seem to have any other place to be.

July13th- 2007CSS Image Shadow / CSS Shadow / HTML to Excel These new tools were written as free web tools.

June20th- 2007Users online! In the footer, we display how many real users are online at any given moment. The display does NOT count any bots, so this is a real count of real users who are on the site.

More Information Displayed

We recently added a few more display fields for each program: Install Support, System Requirements, Expire Info, as well as Recent Changes. We believe that this information may be relevant for you before you download.

Better Search Options

Now, our regular search feature has a "Best Match" feature, which will order the results by matching strength. This uses a FULLTEXT database search that allows boolean instructions as you find on the more powerful internet search engines. searching for exactly what you are looking for just got easier. The new search interface allows you to specify Category. Beyond that, the search form got a bit smarter - only fill in the fields that you need to use.