Download.com – A Quiet A Good Download

If you say me I want to download ABC software of game, which website you are going to recommend, I would say download.com.

It’s the best ever website relating freeware and shareware downloads. It provides downloads ranging from following categories.

It still remains one of the most popular destinations for those on the look for software. And over the years the site has evolved into a slick, easy to navigate website, with literally hundreds of software listed in it.

The goodies offered by this site include the ease of navigation and the ability to view available software according to the number of downloads, popularity ratings etc. The site also offers alternate download sites if the one you get initially does not work.

Some of the most popular software have special reviews written by Download.com, which are quite educative. You can also go through what the users feel about a particular bit of code, but this may be misleading as some people dont really know what they are writing about.
    * Audio & Video
    * Business
    * Design & Photo
    * Desktop Enhancements
    * Developer Tools
    * Drivers
    * Home & Education
    * Internet
    * IS/IT
    * Utilities
    * Spy ware Center
    * Digital Photo Center
    * Home Entertainment
    * Mobile
    * Mac Software
    * VoIP Center

It has every software available in the market and which is a free or a trail version. One major advantage using download.com is the mirrors available for downloading; it gives you best download speed.

You can personalize the website by registering on it. If you a download junkie like me, it’s a heaven for you and you can get regular alerts of the new software’s available. It also provides editor and user reviews of almost every utility. every download is also spyware free.

Small hiccups with this site are:

The pages load slowly as they have a lot of pictures, Flash animation etc on each page. Some of the softwares are wrongly classified-shareware as freeware and so on. The search facility sometimes does not turn up relevant results, even though the files are listed at the site.  Some very famous software is not listed