FileHippo.com is a great web site from where you can download a lot of freeware and some shareware. The page is organized in the following categories of software:

- Browsers and Plugins

- Anti-Spyware

- Audio and Video

- File Sharing

- Firewalls ans Security

- CD and DVD Tools

- Messaging and Chat

- Anti-Virus

- Cleaning and Tweaking

- Desktop

- File Transfer

- Compression and Backup

- Imaging

- Office and News

- Benchmarking

- Drivers

- Developer Tools

- Networking and Admin

And also two interesting categories, one is Latest updates and the other is Most popular downloads, very useful.

You can apply the following filters to the software shown: No Beta versions(very useful if you need stability) and Freeware Only(useful in my case, I don’t buy software).

And the best of the site(but still in beta) is that you can download a Client Agent program(called Update Checker) to maintain all the software that you install from this page to the latest version. You can download the Update Checker in two versions, Installer and Standalone.

I found this web page very useful to maintain all my freeware tools up to date. I’m actually using it at work, and found no issues.

The GOOD:

- Has a RSS, e-Mail and Twitter notification system.

- Almost all the useful freeware is listed.

- Has few advertisement.

The BAD:

- Only software for Microsoft Windows systems.

- The Update Checker still’s in beta.