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(To be clear, I had already known about it before the MacBreak episode.) (ItвЂ™s much better-known among Dashboard widget authors, as it was the first site indexing widgets.) Trying to help that, MacBreak did a recent MacBreak Minute about it.

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Though itвЂ™s open to any software, the MPG emphasizes commercial products.ДЄppleвЂ™s Mac OS X Downloads: I suspect this isnвЂ™t well-known, because AppleвЂ™s main effort to publicize it is a menu item in the Apple menu. Macintosh Products Guide: The elder of AppleвЂ™s two software-listing sites. (Be sure to click the button on AppFreshвЂ™s iUseThis listing for mad cyclicality.) AppFresh integrates it, which is nice if youвЂ™re both an iUseThis user and an AppFresh user. The hook of iUseThis is that it works similarly to digg: If you use an app, you can go to its listing and vote it up (that is, digg it) using the вЂњi use thisвЂќ button. IUseThis: The newest entry into this field.

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I never used it much, but itвЂ™s much better than I remember it: the last time I tried it, I couldnвЂ™t figure out how to download any of the software listed. Tucows: The third of three (that I know of) sites that originally only listed DOS/Windows software also the other other old standard. One nice feature is that, like VT, it lets you filter the list to only freeware. Mac users (at least those who havenвЂ™t used Windows recently) see this вЂњ100% virus-freeвЂќ graphic and think вЂњYeah? Why wouldnвЂ™t it be?вЂќ.

You can tell that they were a Windows site first because of what every developer they list gets: an (unintentionally-)amusing email certifying that the developerвЂ™s software is virus-free, along with an icon on the listing page indicating the same certification. Softpedia: A more recent entry (at least on the Mac). Unlike VersionTracker, was for Windows (maybe even DOS) first, then added Mac software later. Thanks to Hoopla for pointing out my error and the freeware view in a comment.Д: The other old standard.

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UPDATE : VT has mostly done away with ads, and has a freeware view. One handy-though well-hidden-feature is that on the вЂњ Updates by CategoryвЂќ tab, at the bottom, thereвЂ™s a list of single-license lists, including a freeware-only list. This inspired MacUpdateвЂ™s founding principle: fewer (initially no, as I remember it) ads, so that the page would load faster. VTвЂ™s main downside is used to be that it is was a very ad-heavy page. This was the very first Mac-specific software-listing site, and MacUpdateвЂ™s primary competition (indeed, MacUpdate exists to compete with it). That said, the order is not strict, so just because site A came after site B doesnвЂ™t necessarily mean site A is any better or lesser-known. IвЂ™ll start with the ones you probably know and build up to lesser-known sites. YouвЂ™ll know some of these, but you may not know all of them. If you want to boycott or just casually avoid MacUpdate, whether for that reason or other reasons, this list will help you do that. Following the recent flap about MacUpdate prematurely listing Perian 1.0 before it had really gone 1.0, I think it appropriate to present a list of software-listing sites that are not MacUpdate.

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